Server Visibility

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The AppDynamics Server Visibility module uses the Machine Agent to provide extended hardware metrics. Server Visibility includes additional windows in the Controller UI that enable you to quickly see underlying infrastructure issues impacting your application performance and rapidly troubleshoot hardware performance problems.

Requirements

Linux, Windows, Solaris, and AIX
Server Visibility license for monitored machines
Server Visibility enabled on the Machine Agent
Before you enable Server Visibility:
1. Review the Server Visibility Requirements and Supported Environments.
2. Install and configure the Machine Agent on a machine with a supported OS as described in Install the Machine Agent.
Without having to enable Server Visibility, you can view basic hardware metrics.

Feature Comparison

Feature	Server Visibility	Machine Agent
Supported Platforms	Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX	Linux and Unix-like systems, MacOS, Windows, AIX
Extensions and Custom Metrics	Yes	Yes
Monitor Docker container metrics from the Docker host	Yes	No
Tier Metric Correlator	Yes	No
Dynamic Monitoring Mode	Yes	No
JVM Crash Guard	Yes	Yes
Remediation Scripts	Yes	Yes
Graphical User Interface	Yes	Functionality is limited to viewing Machine Agent metrics in the Servers List
Extended Hardware Metrics	Yes	No
Server metrics in transaction snapshots	Yes	No
Server KPIs in application flow map	Yes	No
Health rules for extended hardware metrics	Yes	No
Licensing	Server Visibility	Machine Agent

Permissions

Server Visibility provides two predefined roles, and two related permissions:

Server Visibility Administrator
Server Visibility User
View Server Visibility permission
Configure Server Visibility permission - enables configuring Service Availability

Server Visibility User Interface

The Servers list provides key performance metrics for all your servers on a single panel.

The Servers > Dashboard shows key performance metrics for the selected machine, including the top ten consumers of CPU and memory.

The Servers > Volumes panel displays performance metrics for disks, partitions, and volumes for the selected machine.

The Servers > Network panel shows network performance metrics for network interfaces on the selected machine.

The Servers > Processes panel shows a configurable set of performance metrics for processes.

The Servers > Containers panel lists the monitored containers used by an application.

Using the Server Visibility UI

The Server Visibility user interface uses many of the same mechanisms that are common to the various panels of the Controller UI. The sample image illustrates these mechanisms.

Search Results and Sorting

Pagination is the default behavior on the Servers and Containers list pages. The information is retrieved on demand, and additional records are retrieved and displayed as you scroll. Search is only available for the Name and Host ID columns. Sorting is only available on the Hostname, Container, Metric %, and Health fields.