How to Set Up Health Rules?

Splunk AppDynamics recommends the following process to set up health rules for your application:

  1. Identify the key metrics (performance indicators) on the key entities that you need to monitor.
  2. Click Alert & Respond > Health Rules to examine any default health rules.
    • Compare your list of metrics with the metrics configured for the default rules.
    • You can view the list of affected entities for each of the default health rules and modify them. See Configure Affected Entities.

    • If the default health rules cover all the key metrics you need, determine if the pre-configured conditions are applicable to your environment. If required, modify the conditions.

      Note: Define a metric expression to evaluate complex criteria for a condition. Define a boolean expression to evaluate multiple health rule conditions.
  3. If default health rules do not cover all your requirements or if you need finely-applied health rules to cover specific use cases,create new health rules.
    1. Identify the type of health rule that you want to create. See Health Rule Types.
    2. Decide which entities are affected by the new rule. See Entities Affected by a Health Rule.
    3. Define the conditions to monitor. See Create and Configure Conditions.
  4. If you want the health rules to be evaluated according to a pre-defined time schedule, create a health rule schedule. In some situations, a health rule is more useful if it is evaluated at a particular time. See Health Rule Schedules.
After you set up health rules you must configure policies and actions to be executed when health rules are violated. See Policies and Actions.