This page describes AppDynamics Downloads.

AppDynamics Downloads is a central location to download Agents and the AppDynamics On-premises platform. The site provides download availability according to your subscription type and permissions. See Download AppDynamics Software.

Navigation Overview

There are quick links provided to assist with management functions: 

  • Getting Started—provides instructions for creating an account, gaining system access, and so on.
  • Entitlements—
  • Our Updates page for product announcements 
  • Instructions for the Automation of new version downloads

Download Agents

AppDynamics agents monitor every line of code in your instrumented environment by using unique tags that are assigned to method calls and request headers. The agents capture performance activity and report to the Controller in real-time. Use the Agents download tab to access every available agent in each applicable version for three operating systems to match your environment. 

Under Available Downloads, use the filter options or the Search field to find an agent. 

Filters:

Each filter dropdown menu provides options that, when selected, automatically updates the list of available agents. If no agents display, edit your filter selections. 

  • Type—select one or more agents for download. The four most popular agents display at the top of the list with all additional agents listed alphabetically.
  • Version—choose the latest agent version or one or more previous versions.

  • Operating System—select one or more operating systems. 

  • Compatible With Controller—choose the latest Controller version or one or more previous versions.
Search Field:
  1. Type the name and/or version of the desired agent in the Search field. 
  2. Press Enter on your keyboard to update the list of available agents for download.
  3. If no agents display, there are none that match your search criteria. You may want to try the filter options. 

Once you have a list of available agents:

  1. Hover over Checksums in the Description column to view the MD5 and SHA256 hash functions for the component. 
  2. Click View for the agent to review the latest release notes.
  3. Click Download to obtain the Agent.zip file.
  4. Click cURL to generate code for cURL that includes a time-sensitive OAUTH access token.
  5. Select Copy to Clipboard Copy to Clipboard and paste the code in your server, VM, or docker container within an hour. 

Download Platforms (On-Premises Deployments Only)

An on-premises AppDynamics Platform installation consists of several, separately installed, and configured components. These include the Enterprise Console, AppDynamics Cluster Manager, Synthetic Server, Events Service, and the optional EUM Server. Use the Platforms download tab to access each platform application in all available versions for three operating systems to build your environment. 

Navigate to AppDynamics Downloads and select the Platforms tab. Use the filter options or the Search field to filter the list of available platform applications. 

Filters:

Each filter dropdown menu provides options that, when selected, automatically updates the list of available agents. If no agents display, edit your filter selections. 

  • Type—select one or more agents for download. The four most popular agents display at the top of the list with all additional agents listed alphabetically.
  • Version—choose the latest agent version or one or more previous versions.

  • Operating System—select one or more operating systems. 

Search Field:
  1. Type the name and/or version of the desired component in the Search field. 
  2. Press Enter on your keyboard to update the list of available components for download.
  3. If none display, there are none that match your search criteria. You may want to try the filter options. 

Once you have a list of available agents:

  1. Hover over Checksums in the Description column to view the MD5 and SHA256 hash functions for the agent. 
  2. Click View for the agent to review the latest release notes.
  3. Click Download to obtain the software package file.
  4. Click cURL to generate code for cURL that includes a time-sensitive OAUTH access token.
  5. Select Copy to Clipboard Copy to Clipboard and paste the code in your server, VM, or docker container within an hour.

Automate AppDynamics Software Downloads with cURL

When you download files, always copy or transfer the files in binary mode. If you want to transfer a file that you have downloaded on Windows to a Linux machine, use binary mode in your transfer program when you move the file to the destination Linux environment.

Where applicable, AppDynamics also publishes software for distribution on package manager repositories such as RPM, npm, pip, NuGet, and more. For products that are available via a package manager, you can find relevant instructions to retrieve and install the software in Install the Machine Agent.

The following steps demonstrate how to use cURL to get the latest version of an AppDynamics software download.

  1. Retrieve an OAUTH token with the download scope:

    curl -X POST -d '{"username": "<username>","password": "<password>","scopes": ["download"]}' https://identity.msrv.saas.appdynamics.com/v2.0/oauth/token

  2. View the latest version of each available product from https://download.appdynamics.com/download/downloadfilelatest. For example:

    curl https://download.appdynamics.com/download/downloadfilelatest/

  3. Inspect the response (or parse via script) to find the download_path of the latest product version. 

  4. Download the binary by running the following command:

    Replace access_token with your OAUTH token from Step 1, and replace url_to_file with the download_path value from the response in Step 3.

    curl -L -O -H "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>" <url_to_file>

Validate Software Package Downloads

You can use checksum validation and a digital signature (for specific packages) to validate software downloaded from AppDynamics Downloads. This validation requires the machine on which you validate a package to include a TLS 1.2 implementation. 

Checksum Validation

  1. Navigate to AppDynamics Downloads.
  2. Click Checksums beneath the software package description to display the MD5 and SHA256 checksums. 
  3. After your download completes, run a checksum tool and compare the results against the checksum information on the downloads page.

Digital Signatures

AppDynamics digitally signs the following packages using a certificate signed by a publicly known certificate authority:

  • .NET Agent
  • AppDynamics Controller for Windows MSI installer

AppDynamics digitally signs the following packages using a PGP key:

  • Java Agent
  • Machine Agent
  • Machine Agent RPM package
  • Python Agent pip package

The AppDynamics PGP public key is hosted on https://pgp.mit.edu under the User ID "help@appdynamics.com". For information about using a PGP signature to validate a software package, see Verify AppDynamics Software Downloads with PGP.