Appdynamics is great - I love it! I've now used it on a couple of commercial projects and everytime I use it the support people are going "Why havent we always been doing this like this?"
But getting data out of appdynamics - not easy. I had a requirement to extract information out of appdynamics quickly so that I could effectively press a button and it would dump out information that I could compare against previous runs.
The Reporter was born!! www.chickenkatsu.co.uk/reporter
A php5 application that sits ontop of the neat Appdynamics API to allow me to quickly eyeball my services on one screen, and to be able to get information out quickly. And it works for all tiers, I dont have to create a new dashboard or anything.
The Reporter is charityware that is 100% open source licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For commercial use a donation is required to The Red Cross to the value of at least $100.
if you have an appdynamics SAAS, all you have to do is
- * create a readonly account on your saas that has no access to dashboards. - very important
- * download the reporter from github to run it on your own PHP5 server with Curl enabled (or run it from www.chickenkatsu.co.uk/reporter)
- * fire up the reporter - using your SAAS details (or your controller details)
- * play
And as this has no flash this works from mobile devices - including iPads - so yes you can keep an eye on your applications when you're out and about .
If you would like something just for you, contact me for a very cost effective solution 🙂
Sunil
