Events Reference

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This page lists these types of events generated in AppDynamics:

Event types that are common to the platform, such as UI, configuration, and licensing-related events
Events generated by the alert and response system
Application monitoring events

Information on event types that are specific to a platform module, if available, appears with the module-specific documentation. For example, Database Agent events are listed on Database Agent Events Reference.

Event types listed here that are not visible in the UI can be retrieved using the AppDynamics REST API.

ACTIVITY_TRACE

Description: The agent sent an internal event containing activity traces.
Activity traces enable the tracing of a code path that passes through a specified class/method. The App Agent for Java uses them to provide object instance tracking (OIT) and automatic leak detection (ALD)

Category: AppDynamics Data

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Java Memory Leaks, Object Instance Tracking for Java

ADJUDICATION_CANCELLED

Description: A designated approver has canceled a thread dump or remediation action that was triggered by a policy.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Actions Requiring Approval, Policies

AGENT_ADD_BLACKLIST_REG_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The agent Application Diagnostic Data (ADD) blocklist registration limit has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Customize System Notifications

AGENT_ASYNC_ADD_REG_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The agent async Application Diagnostic Data (ADD) registration limit has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

AGENT_CONFIGURATION_ERROR

Description: An agent configuration error has been detected.

Category: AppDynamics Configuration Warnings

UI Display name: Agent Configuration Error

Visible in UI: Yes

Learn More: Troubleshoot .NET Agent Issues

APPLICATION_CRASH

Description: A crash has been detected for a JVM. The crash log file is updated.

Category: Application Changes

UI Display name: Application Crash

Visible in UI: Yes

AGENT_DIAGNOSTICS

Description: Diagnostic information concerning agent activity, such as business transaction overflow or HTTP error code diagnostics, has been sent.

Category: AppDynamics Data

UI Display name: Agent Diagnostics

Visible in UI: No

AGENT_ERROR_ADD_REG_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The agent error Application Diagnostic Data (ADD) registration limit has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

AGENT_EVENT

Description: Generic internal event. This event type is also used for all Database Agent events with a case-specific message attached.

Category: AppDynamics Internal Diagnostics

UI Display name: Agent Event

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Database Agent Events Reference

AGENT_METRIC_BLACKLIST_REG_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The agent metric blocklist registration limit has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Metrics Limits

AGENT_METRIC_REG_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The agent metric registration limit has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Metrics Limits

AGENT_STATUS

Description: The agent has been enabled or disabled.

Category: AppDynamics Internal Diagnostics

UI Display name: Agent Enabled / Disabled

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Manage App Agents

ALREADY_ADJUDICATED

Description: A designated approver has previously approved or canceled a thread dump or remediation action that was triggered by a policy.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Actions Requiring Approval, Policies

APPDYNAMICS_DATA

Description: Events used to send data from the agent to the Controller, then to the UI. Events such as BTOverflowDetails and MemoryLeakDiagnostics should be moved into this bucket.

Category: AppDynamics Data

Visible in UI: No

APPDYNAMICS_INTERNAL_DIAGNOSTICS

Description: Internal diagnostics events.

Category: AppDynamics Internal Diagnostics

Visible in UI: No

APPLICATION_CONFIG_CHANGE

Description: Application configuration has been changed interactively by the user or through the REST API.

Category: Application Changes

UI Display name: Application Configuration Change

Visible in UI: Yes

This event type is automatically archived.

APPLICATION_DEPLOYMENT

Description: An application has been deployed.

Category: Application Changes

UI Display name: Application Deployment

Visible in UI: Yes

APPLICATION_DISCOVERED

Description: A new application has been added to the Controller.

Category: Discovery

UI Display name: New Application Discovered

Visible in UI: Yes

Learn More: Policies

APPLICATION_ERROR

Description: An application error has been detected.

Category: Errors

UI Display name: Application Server Exception

Visible in UI: Yes

APP_SERVER_RESTART

Description: An application server has been restarted.

Category: Application Changes

UI Display name: App Server Restart

Visible in UI: Yes

AZURE_AUTO_SCALING

Description: An internal event that reports Azure auto-scaling progress to the UI. Seen at the bottom of the Azure auto-scaling screen.

Category: AppDynamics Data

Visible in UI: No

BACKEND_DISCOVERED

Description: A new backend has been added to the application.

Category: Discovery

UI Display name: New Backend Discovered

Visible in UI: Yes

Learn More: Policies

BT_DISCOVERED

Description: A new business transaction has been added to the application.

Category: Discovery

UI Display name: New Business Transaction Discovered

Visible in UI: Yes

Learn More: Policies

BUSINESS_ERROR

Description: A business error has been detected.

Category: Errors

UI Display name: Business Error

Visible in UI: Yes

CLR_CRASH

Description: A CLR crash has occurred.

Category: AD Infrastructure events

UI Display name: CLR Crash

Visible in UI: Yes

CONTROLLER_AGENT_VERSION_INCOMPATIBILITY

Description: The agent version is newer than the Controller version.

Category: AppDynamics Configuration Warnings

UI Display name: Agent Version is newer than Controller version

Visible in UI: Yes

Learn More: Agent and Controller Tenant Compatibility, Install the Controller

CONTROLLER_ASYNC_ADD_REG_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The Controller limit for registering async Application Diagnostic Data (ADDs) for this account has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Customize System Notifications

CONTROLLER_COLLECTIONS_ADD_REG_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The Controller COLLECTIONS ADD registration limit for the account has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Customize System Notifications

CONTROLLER_ERROR_ADD_REG_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The limit for registering error Application Diagnostic Data (ADDs) for the account has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Customize System Notifications

CONTROLLER_EVENT_UPLOAD_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The limit on the number of events per minute that can be uploaded to the controller for the account has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Customize System Notifications

CONTROLLER_MEMORY_ADD_REG_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The Controller MEMORY ADD registration limit for the account has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Metrics Limits, Customize System Notifications

CONTROLLER_METADATA_REGISTRATION_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The Controller metadata registration limit for the account has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Business Transactions, Organize Business Transactions, Customize System Notifications

CONTROLLER_METRIC_DATA_BUFFER_OVERFLOW

Description: The Controller metric data buffer has overflown. Now dropping metric data.

Learn More: Metrics Limits, Customize System Notifications

CONTROLLER_METRIC_REG_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The limit for registering metrics for the account has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Metrics Limits, Customize System Notifications

CONTROLLER_PSD_UPLOAD_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The PSD limit for the account has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Customize System Notifications

CONTROLLER_RSD_UPLOAD_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The request segment data (RSD) limit for the account has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Customize System Notifications

CONTROLLER_SEP_ADD_REG_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The limit for the Controller SERVICE_ENDPOINT ADD registration for the account has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Customize System Notifications

CONTROLLER_STACKTRACE_ADD_REG_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The limit for registering StackTrace ADDs for the account has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Customize System Notifications

CONTROLLER_TRACKED_OBJECT_ADD_REG_LIMIT_REACHED

Description: The Controller TRACKED_OBJECT ADD registration limit for the account has been reached.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Customize System Notifications

CUSTOM

Description: These are custom events thrown by REST API calls or Machine Agent API calls.

Category: Custom Event

UI Display name: Depends on the event.

Visible in UI: Depends on the event.

Learn More: Create Events

CUSTOM_ACTION_END

Description: A custom action has ended.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Custom Actions, Policies

CUSTOM_ACTION_FAILED

Description: A custom action has failed.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Custom Actions, Policies

CUSTOM_ACTION_STARTED

Description: A custom action has started.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Custom Actions, Policies

CUSTOM_EMAIL_ACTION_END

Description: A custom email action ended.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Diagnostic Actions, Policies

CUSTOM_EMAIL_ACTION_FAILED

Description: A custom email action failed.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Diagnostic Actions, Policies

CUSTOM_EMAIL_ACTION_STARTED

Description: A custom email action started.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Diagnostic Actions, Policies

DB_SERVER_PARAMETER_CHANGE

Description: The DBMS server parameters have been changed.

Category: DB Agent Event

DEADLOCK

Description: The agent has detected code deadlock.

Category: Code Problems

UI Display name: Code Deadlock

Visible in UI: Yes

Learn More: Code Deadlocks for Java

DEV_MODE_CONFIG_UPDATE

Description: The Dev Mode Config has been updated. This is fired from the agent and the Controller.

DIAGNOSTIC_SESSION

Description: A diagnostic session has started.

Category: AppDynamics Internal Diagnostics

UI Display name: Diagnostic Session

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Diagnostic Sessions

DISK_SPACE

Description: The controller is running out of disk space.

Category: AppDynamics Configuration Warnings

UI Display name: Controller Disk Space Low

Visible in UI: Yes

Learn More: Controller System Requirements, Controller Disk Space and the Database, Database Size and Data Retention

EMAIL_ACTION_FAILED

Description: Email action has failed.

Learn More: Notification Actions

EMAIL_SENT

Description: Email was sent to notify the recipient of an event.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Notification Actions

EUM_CLOUD_BROWSER_EVENT

Description: A browser snapshot was stored in the database.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring, Browser Snapshots

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_BROWSER_EVENT

Description: A synthetic browser snapshot was stored in the database.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring, Browser Snapshots

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_ERROR_EVENT

Description: A synthetic error event will occur on the first occurrence of an error session for a synthetic job.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_CONFIRMED_ERROR_EVENT

Description: A synthetic error event is confirmed. When we see an error session again when we retry the job.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_ONGOING_ERROR_EVENT

Description: A synthetic ongoing error event was detected when the error was confirmed. Sessions will be in error states.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_HEALTHY_EVENT

Description: A synthetic event was reported healthy when a job is transited from any other state to a healthy state.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_WARNING_EVENT

Description: When a synthetic job session status is WARNING, the detected warning is reported.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring.

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_CONFIRMED_WARNING_EVENT

Description: A synthetic warning was confirmed. When we see a warning session again when we retry the job.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_ONGOING_WARNING_EVENT

Description: A synthetic ongoing warning detection is reported when the warning is confirmed.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_PERF_WARNING_EVENT

Description: A synthetic ongoing warning detection is reported when performance breaches/exceeds the threshold.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_PERF_CONFIRMED_WARNING_EVENT

Description: A synthetic performance warning detection is reported when we see a warning session again and perform a retest or see consecutive failures of the job (This depends on the configurations).

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_PERF_ONGOING_WARNING_EVENT

Description: A synthetic ongoing warning event is reported and confirmed.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_PERF_HEALTHY_EVENT

Description: A synthetic healthy performance event was detected and is reported when a job is transited from any other state to a healthy state.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_PERF_CRITICAL_EVENT

Description: A synthetic critical performance event was detected and is reported when performance for critical event breaches/exceeds the threshold.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_PERF_CONFIRMED_CRITICAL_EVENT

Description: A synthetic critical performance event was detected and is reported when we see a critical session again and retest or see consecutive failures of the job (This depends on the configurations).

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring

EUM_CLOUD_SYNTHETIC_PERF_ONGOING_CRITICAL_EVENT

Description: A synthetic ongoing critical event was detected and the event is confirmed.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring

EUM_INTERNAL_ERROR

Description: An internal EUM error has occurred.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: End User Monitoring

HTTP_REQUEST_ACTION_END

Description: An HTTP request action ended.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Diagnostic Actions, Policies

HTTP_REQUEST_ACTION_FAILED

Description: An HTTP request action failed.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Diagnostic Actions, Policies

HTTP_REQUEST_ACTION_STARTED

Description: An HTTP request action started.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Diagnostic Actions, Policies

INFO_INSTRUMENTATION_VISIBILITY

Description: Information was written to the Bytecode Transformer Log. This log contains information associated with the AppDynamics bytecode instrumentation (BCI) engine.

Category: AppDynamics Internal Diagnostics

UI Display name: Bytecode Transformer Log

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Request Agent Log Files, App Agent Node Properties Reference

INTERNAL_UI_EVENT

Description: These are the XResponder.handleGeneralServerFaultEvent events.

Category: AppDynamics Internal Diagnostics

UI Display name: Controller API Call Threw an Exception

Visible in UI: No

KUBERNETES

Description: The two Kubernetes event types, normal events and warning events, thrown by the Cluster Agent.

Category: Kubernetes Events

UI Display name: Cluster Event

Visible in UI: Yes

Learn More: Monitor Kubernetes Events

LICENSE

Description: The AppDynamics license has expired.

Category: AppDynamics Configuration Warnings

UI Display name: License Expired

Visible in UI: Yes

Learn More: License Information

MACHINE_AGENT_LOG

Description: The Machine Agent is now logging information.

Category: AppDynamics Data

MACHINE_DISCOVERED

Description: A new machine has been added to the application.

Category: Discovery

UI Display name: New Machine Discovered

Visible in UI: Yes

Learn More: Policies

MEMORY

Description: Events for automatic leak detection and custom memory structures.

Category: AppDynamics Data

UI Display name: AppDynamics Data

Visible in UI: No

MEMORY_LEAK_DIAGNOSTICS

Description: The agent sends this internal event with memory leak data. The UI uses this on the memory monitoring screens in the node dashboards.

Visible in UI: No

MOBILE_CRASH_IOS_EVENT

Description: An iOS mobile application crash has arrived at the Controller.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Crashes

MOBILE_CRASH_ANDROID_EVENT

Description: An Android mobile application crash has arrived at the Controller.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Crashes

MOBILE_NEW_CRASH_EVENT, SLOW, VERY_SLOW, STALL

Description: An Android mobile application crash has arrived at the Controller with slow, very slow, or stalled status.

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Crashes

NETWORK

Description: The log data provided by the NPM Agent has been logged by the NPM Dynamic service.

UI Display name: Network

Visible in UI: Yes

NODE_DISCOVERED

Description: A new node has been added to the application.

Category: Discovery

UI Display name: New Node Discovered

Visible in UI: Yes

Learn More: Policies

NORMAL

Description: A business transaction is normal (not slow, very slow or stalled).

Visible in UI: No

Learn More: Transaction Thresholds, Dynamic Baselines

OBJECT_CONTENT_SUMMARY

Description: The agent sent an internal event with object content summary for collections, caches, etc.

Category: AppDynamics Data

Visible in UI: No