I have found out that we need to install app-agents inside the containers. It can not work only with machine-agent installation/configuration, you need to use app-agents as well. I have referred below articles which has helped me to run appdynamics for my docker swarm: https://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO45/Monitoring+Containers+with+Docker+Visibility https://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO45/Configure+the+Standalone+Machine+Agent https://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO45/Deploy+Using+Containers Have used below parameters : -Dappdynamics.docker.enabled=true -Dappdynamics.docker.container.collection.cgroup.enabled=true -Dsim.docker.monitorAPMContainersOnly=false -Dappdynamics.agent.reuse.nodeName.prefix=<nodename> -Dappdynamics.agent.reuse.nodeName=true -Dappdynamics.jvm.shutdown.mark.node.as.historical=true
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