Splunk AppDynamics can generate notifications or invoke actions based on conditions or events you configure. Using the alert and respond feature, you can determine problems as they occur, or even before they occur.

Policies serve as central configuration artifacts for the alert and respond feature. A policy allows you to define the remedial actions that are invoked when one or more conditions are met or an event occurs. A health rule defines the performance condition or an event.

Splunk AppDynamics provides several pre-configured health rules that give you a head start to create your own health rules. You can also use built-in examples and customize them to match your application performance requirements. For example, the built-in health rules test for whether theBusiness Transaction error rate is much higher than normalorCLR Garbage Collection Time is too high.SeeDefault Health Rulesfor more examples.

Actions automate the response to an event, such as, sending an alert, or performing diagnostic, or performing remediation actions. See Alert and Respond API to learn how to create custom URLs for notifications.

Email digests generate email messages about the conditions and events in a system based on a pre-defined schedule.