I have a quick question for the community. I remember reading that AppDynamics starts rolling up and aggregating information in the SaaS environment at 4 hours and eventually the information will completely roll of a clients SaaS environment. I can't seem to find that information anywhere now. There reason I'm asking is that we've had a rather large turn over at my company and we have a couple of directors come into our group who are going to be responsible for all things APM. I was telling them how AppD SaaS doesn't hold onto it's data indefinitely that it starts rolling up and aggregating at set intervals and eventually rolls out of our environment. I'd like to have documentation to back that statement up but can't seem to find it now. Thanks, Bill Youngman ... View more

Good Morning, I am using the http_poller logstash input filter to connect to the AppDynamics OAUTH API that I will then use to pass to the http filter plugin to retrieve AppDynamics REST API metric data to insert into Elasticsearch. My logstash http_poller configuration is: ``` input { http_poller { urls => { AppDynamics => { method => post url => "https://*appdynamics-test-account*/controller/api/oauth/access_token" headers => { "Accept" => "application/json" "Content-Type" => "application/vnd.appd.cntrl+protobuf;v=1" "Authorizations" => "*AppDynamics bearer token*" "grant_type" => "client_credentials" "client_id" => "Stage-CurlTest" "client_secret" => "*AppDynamics Client Secret*" } } } request_timeout => 60 schedule => { every => "1h"} codec => "json" metadata_target => "appd-token" type => "AppDynamics" } } } ``` I am getting the following error response when the poller tries to connect to AppDynamics ``` { "type": "AppDynamics", "@timestamp": "2021-10-18T14:02:11.191Z", "appd-token": { "request": { "method": "post", "url": "https://*appdynamics-test-account*/controller/api/oauth/access_token", "headers": { "Authorizations": "AppDynamics Bearer Token", "grant_type": "client_credentials", "client_secret": "`AppDynamics Client Secret`", "client_id": "Stage-CurlTest", "Content-Type": "application/vnd.appd.cntrl+protobuf;v=1", "Accept": "application/json" } }, "response_headers": { "x-content-type-options": "nosniff", "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN", "x-xss-protection": "1; mode=block", "connection": "keep-alive", "server": "AppDynamics", "date": "Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:02:10 GMT" }, "runtime_seconds": 0.36, "host": "SAPPLOG03", "name": "AppDynamics", "response_message": "Not Acceptable", "code": 406, "times_retried": 0 }, "@version": "1", "tags": [ "_httprequestfailure" ] } ``` New to both the http_poller filter and the AppDynamics Metric REST API so not sure what I have configured wrong. I have also posted to the Elastic Community forum. I have removed any account-specific information for security reasons so any additional information that would be helpful let me know and I'll get it for this post. Thanks, Bill ... View more

Good Afternoon, We are a SAAS client and we're starting to get requests and requirements for historical AppDynamics information for such projects as Telemetry Data analysis which they are requesting up to 6 months of historical data from our various APM systems. We've never really had the requirement to persist our data somewhere until now and since we have an Elastic Stack in-house it makes sense to export this information into an Elasticsearch index. Everything I've read points to on-prem installations where you can put scripts/utilities on the servers that captures the information and then exports it out to Elasticsearch through some plug-in such as logstash or and http endpoint plugin. Since we are SAAS and don't have any physical machines that we can use to house scripts or utilities is there a similar or corresponding approach that we can use? Thanks, Bill ... View more

I need to export some of my metric information out to Elasticsearch for archiving and I read that the way to do it is to use the http_poller logstash plugin for this. My problem is that I have to use OAUTH 2.0 to connect to our Controller API and the http_poller plugin doesn't support the dynamic creation and use of tokens. I've read of some developer's creating PowerShell scripts to generate an OAUTH token and then inject that into the http_poller plugin but I'm researching other possibilities as well. Has anyone ever had to do something like this or does anyone have any suggestions. TIA, Bill Youngman ... View more