Dynatrace AppMon monitor

The Dynatrace AppMon monitor provides information on the availability and performance of software applications, and the impact on user experience, as measured by Dynatrace AppMon, an APM tool.

In this topic:

• Dynatrace dashboards and dashlets
• Set up the Dynatrace AppMon monitor

Dynatrace dashboards and dashlets

Using Dynatrace AppMon's dashboards and dashlets you can get insights into your full application stack, in the form of deep transaction tracing, synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, and network monitoring.

A dashboard represents a specific view of one or more Dynatrace AppMon data sources. A dashboard is comprised of dashlets, the building blocks of a dashboard that contain specific types of data (in the form of a graph or data tables).

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Set up the Dynatrace AppMon monitor

1. Prerequisites: The Dynatrace AppMon monitor must be installed on the AUT server.

2. In Controller, in the Run tab, add the Dynatrace AppMon monitor. Graphs > Dynatrace Graphs > Dynatrace AppMon.
3. Right-click the Dynatrace AppMon monitor and click Add measurements.

4. In the Dynatrace AppMon dialog box, click Add to add the monitor, and enter the Dynatrace server details:

   Note: In order to connect to a Dynatrace AppMon server with specific credentials, you must first stop the Dynatrace AppMon monitor and remove all of its counters.

   UI Element	Description
   Name	The name or IP address of the server whose resources you want to monitor.
   Port	The server port. HTTP: 8020 HTTPS: 8021 (Default)
   Use Secure HTTP	Select to use a secure HTTP connection to the server.
   User Name	The user name to use for the Dynatrace AppMon account.
   Password	The password to use for the Dynatrace AppMon account.

   Click OK.

For detailed information on the performance measurements that Dynatrace AppMon can monitor, refer to the Dynatrace documentation.

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See also:

• Set up a monitoring environment
• Add Machine dialog box