APM (Application Performance Monitoring) Dashboard

APM (Application Performance Monitoring) is about generating bird’s-eye-view dashboard and metrics of the different applications. APM dashboard monitors the performance metrics of business-critical servers and applications.


APM Dashboard enables you to do following:

  • To view and filter different reports for periodic performance analysis for different diagnostics solutions. 
  • Provides actionable insights to the data, so that you can quickly drill down to root cause of application problems.   

Prerequisites

  • By default, only the Super_Admin and < Admin> role has access to APM Dashboard. You can contact administrator to update Data Capture Configuration. For more information about APM access, see Specify Role Access.

Before accessing the APM Dashboard

Before accessing the APM Dashboard, you are required to do following configuration.

Data Capture Configuration

Control Tower APM Dashboard displays the data captured by APMClient. APMClient is data capture utility which capture system and components (DIGITAL WORKER components) level data for APM dashboard.
 

NOTE:  

 Data Capture Configuration is accessible only to administrator from the backend, at both . You must contact administrator to update Data Capture Configuration.


Configuring Data Capture for APM Dashboard

APM data is captured at all Digital Worker configured servers and stored in elasticsearch. APM dashboard data are retrieved from these data. APM data is captured (if enabled) at configured interval (default is 1 minute) and aggregated (as performed by elastic search) in dashboard chart view based on time duration selected.

NOTE:  

Data Capture Configuration is accessible only to the administrator from the backend. You must contact the administrator to update Data Capture, Data Store Configuration.


For more information about how average aggregation is performed by OpenSearch, see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.7/search-aggregations-metrics-avg-aggregation.html


For more information about detailed data capture configuration, see Data Capture Configuration.

NOTE:  

APM Dashboard displays the data for maximum last 30 days.