AppDynamics APIs

This page provides an overview of AppDynamics APIs, which let you extend and customize various aspects of the AppDynamics Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Platform. 

Overview of AppDynamics APIs

The AppDynamics APM Platform exposes various APIs for customizing and extending its features on the platform-side, which are served by the Controller and Events Service, and on the agent-side. 

The AppDynamics platform server components and agents offer the following APIs:   

• Controller APIs: Administer the Controller, configure, monitor, query metrics, and more. See Platform API Index.
• Accounts APIs: Manage and monitor accounts, users, and other aspects of AppDynamics licensing. Accounts APIs are made up of these modules:
  
  • actionsuppressions
  • businesstransactions
  • healthrules
  • licensemodules
  • mdsconfig
  • nodes
  • policies
  See Observe License Usage.
• Analytics Events API: Send custom analytics events from your data sources to the Events Service. See the Analytics Events API section in the Platform API Index. 
• Machine Agent APIs: HTTP APIs available at the machine agent for uploading custom metrics. See Machine Agent HTTP Listener.
• Database Agent APIs: Get, create, update, and delete Database Monitoring database Collectors. See Database Visibility API.
• Application Agent Instrumentation APIs: Control and customize transaction detection and correlation, along with exit point detection. Agent APIs include: 
  • PHP Agent API
  • Python Agent API
  • Node.js Agent API Reference
  • C/C++ SDK
• Java Agent API: Customize agent instrumentation. See the SDK folder in the agent home directory. 
• Mobile RUM: Instrument mobile applications for real user performance monitoring. See Instrument iOS Applications.
• IoT RUM: Report instrumentation data directly to the EUM Server. See Instrument Applications with the IoT REST APIs.

Platform API Index

These methods are Below is a list of all the methods in the AppDynamics Controller and Events Service APIs:

Accounts API

• Retrieve Controller Audit History

• Configure Metric Retention by Account

• Configure Metric Retention by Application

Application Model API

• Retrieve All Business Applications

• Retrieve All Business Transactions in a Business Application

• Retrieve All Tiers in a Business Application

• Retrieve All Registered Backends in a Business Application with Their Properties

• Retrieve Node Information for All Nodes in a Business Application

• Retrieve Node Information by Node Name

• Retrieve Node Information for All Nodes in a Tier

• Retrieve Tier Information by Tier Name

Metric and Snapshot API

• Retrieve Metric Hierarchy
• Retrieve Metric Data
• Retrieve Transaction Snapshots

Alert and Respond APIs

Health Rule API

• Create a Health Rule

• Retrieve a List of Health Rules for an Application

• Retrieve Details of a Specified Health Rule

• Update a Health Rule

• Delete a Health Rule

Schedule API

• Create a New Schedule

• Retrieve a List of Schedules for a Given Application

• Retrieve the Details of a Specified Schedule

• Update a Schedule

• Delete a Schedule

Policy API

• Create a Policy

• Retrieve a list of Policies associated with an Application

• Retrieve Details of a Specified Policy

• Update a Policy

• Delete a Policy

Actions API

• Create a New Action

• Retrieve a List of Actions for a Given Application

• Retrieve Details of a Specified Action

• Update an Action

• Delete an Action

Events and Action Suppression API

• Retrieve All Health Rule Violations in a Business Application
• Retrieve Event Data
• Create Events
• Create a Custom Event
• Create Custom URLs for Notifications
• Create and Delete Action Suppressions
• Retrieve All Existing Action Suppressions
• Retrieve a Specific Action Suppression by ID
• Create a New Action Suppression
• Delete a Specific Action Suppression by ID

Configuration API

• Create and Modify AppDynamics Users

• Include or exclude a business transaction from monitoring

• Retrieve All Controller Settings

• Retrieve a Controller Setting by Name

• Configure Global Controller Settings

• Mark Nodes as Historical

Configuration Import and Export API 

Database Visibility API 

Analytics Events API 

RBAC API

• Create User

• Get User by ID

• Get User by Name

• Get All Users

• Update User

• Delete User

• Create Group

• Get Group by ID

• Get Group by Name

• Get All Groups

• Update Group

• Delete Group 

• Add User to Group

• Remove User from Group

• Create Role

• Add Role to User

• Remove Role from User

• Add Role to Group

• Remove Role from Group

• Get Role by ID

• Get Role by Name

• Get All Roles

• Update Role

• Delete Role

License Rules API

• Creates a New License Rule
• Returns a Summary of All License Rules for the Current Account
• Updates a License Rule
• Deletes a License Rule
• Retrieve a License Rule via its Id

• Retrieves a License Rule by Access Key

• Retrieve a License Rule by Name