Action

An automatic response to an event based on a policy.

Examples include sending alerts, taking diagnostic snapshots, remediation through scripts, or making a REST API call to integrate with other tools. Actions are customizable.

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Action

An automatic response to an event based on a policy.

Examples include sending alerts, taking diagnostic snapshots, remediation through scripts, or making a REST API call to integrate with other tools. Actions are customizable.

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Agent

An agent is code that collects and reports data. Agents can refer to languages (Java, Node.js, Python, etc), machines (hardware and network data), and databases, etc.

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Alert

Email, SMS, or customized external notification interface that notifies you of a problem or event.

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Application

A named collection of tiers representing a monitored environment. Also referred to as Business Application.

See also: Tier, Node

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Business Transaction

An action of your application. Business transactions represent your critical business functions. See also Business Transactions (AppDynamics SaaS).

Examples include login, browse, and checkout.

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Central Identity

Central Identity describes Splunk AppDynamics Controller user accounts whose authentication provider is managed in the Cisco Customer Identity (CCI) and AppDynamics Identity Provider (IdP).

• Users of this type may have access to multiple controller accounts through this same identity served by the CCI and AppDynamics IdP granting them SSO across all Controller accounts. Note that due to the dependency on the CCI and AppDynamics IdP, Central Identity is not available to Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises.
• Central Identity is not an optional setting: it is the implementation of the "local" user in the Controller. Any new "local" user created in the Controller user management experience is a Central Identity user and discernible by their email address as the username and the visible "View user details in Accounts" link in the User Management detail page.

Central Identity as a term is often overloaded to represent any user in the CCI and AppDynamics IdP; however, this is not strictly true. Any Central Identity user is a CCI and AppDynamics IdP user; however, some AppD IdP users are not Central Identity users.

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Splunk AppDynamics Cloud Collectors

The Splunk AppDynamics Cloud Collectors are Splunk AppDynamics data collectors that collect metrics and entity attributes from Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform and send them to the Cisco Observability Platform.

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Splunk AppDynamics Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector

The Splunk AppDynamics Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector is a customized distribution of the open-source OpenTelemetry Collector. The Splunk AppDynamics Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector currently supports receiving data from OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) sources through the open source Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) and the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

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Splunk AppDynamics Smart Agent

The Splunk AppDynamics Smart Agent is an operator that is responsible for the life cycle management of Kubernetes-related agents.

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Controller

With on-premises deployments, it collects, stores, analyzes, and baselines performance data collected by agents. See also Tenant UI Overview.

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Controller Tenant

With a SaaS deployment, it collects, stores, analyzes, and baselines performance data collected by agents. Each AppDynamics SaaS deployment customer account is a tenant of the AppDynamics platform. An AppDynamics Controller Tenant can host one or more accounts. Each account represents one tenant on that Controller. See also Manage Controller Tenant Users and Groups.

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Data Collector

Enables you to collect supplemental application data for business transaction snapshots and/or analytics.

There are three types of data collectors: Method Invocation (MIDC), HTTP, and SQL.

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Entity

Any object that Splunk AppDynamics monitors. Entities typically have associated metrics, events, and a health status.

Examples of entities are applications, tiers, nodes, and business transactions.

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Event

Unstructured data that represents an action or occurrence detected by the agent.

Examples include JVM restart, deadlock, and error. See also Monitor Events.

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Flow map

Graphical view of information flow within a business application. See also Flow Maps.

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Health Rule

Allows you to select specific metrics as key to the overall health of an application and to define ranges for acceptable performance of those metrics.

You can customize default health rules or create new ones. See also Health Rules and Alert and Respond.

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Information Point

Instruments a method in application code outside the context of any business transaction.

Used for monitoring the performance of the method itself, or for capturing numerical data from the method's input parameters or return value. See also Information Points.

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Metric

Numerical measurement over a time interval, typically with a fixed frequency. Because of this, metrics are represented through time-series visualization. Examples include "calls per minute" and "average response time." For Splunk AppDynamics, a metric is a numerical value that an agent measures and reports. See also Metric Browser.

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Node

The smallest unit of the AppDynamics modeling environment.

See also Glossary.

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OpenTelemetry™

OpenTelemetry is a standardization for API and SDKs across languages and a collection of developer tools. You instrument these tools to generate, collect, and export telemetry data such as metrics, logs, and traces. The exported telemetry data helps you analyze your software's performance and behavior.

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Policy

Provides a mechanism to automate monitoring, alerting, and problem remediation. See also Policies and Alert and Respond.

Consists of:

1. A trigger based on events
2. An action in response to the trigger

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Service Endpoint

Provides basic metrics for one application service, or group of services, provided by a tier. See also Service Endpoints.

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Service Principal

Service Principals are identities, represented as code, used by created applications, services, and automation tools to access specific resources. They allow developers to write code that can securely connect to Splunk AppDynamics public APIs for your Cloud Tenant. These API calls use Open Authentication 2.0 (OAuth2) token-based authentication.

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Tier

A named collection of nodes, typically representing a service.

See also Glossary.

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Transaction Snapshot

A collection of detailed diagnostic information captured during a single invocation of a business transaction. Examples include call graphs and timing during a single user login, where login is the business transaction.

See also Call Graphs, Diagnostic Sessions, Browser Snapshots, and Network Request Snapshots.

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Unified Observability Experience

The Unified Observability Experience is Splunk AppDynamics's integration of AppDynamics SaaS and the Splunk Platform that helps leverage the capabilities of both applications. These capabilities can reduce tool sprawl, mean time to detect root causes, and mean time to resolve issues. It also allows you to contextually navigate between AppDynamics SaaS and Splunk Platform to address specific use cases.

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