Apache Server Agent Support

Apache Web Servers

Supported Apache Web Server Version
  • Apache HTTP Server 2.2.x
  • Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x
  • IBM HTTP Server >= 7.0
  • Oracle HTTP Server >= 11g

Operating Systems

  • Any Linux distribution x86 64-bit architecture based on glibc >= 2.34.
  • Alpine Linux >= 3.18.3. Apache Agent on Alpine supports only 64-bit architecture and Apache 2.4.

  • AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) 7.2 (7200-05-03-2148 or later) running on PowerPC Architecture.

    Apache Agent on AIX supports only 64-bit architecture and Apache 2.4.

  • RHEL7 is not supported from 23.x onwards. Support is applicable for Glibc >= 2.28 (RHEL 8 or later).
  • RHEL 8 is supported from Apache Agent 23.12.x onwards.
  • RHEL 9 or later is supported from Apache Agent 23.8.x onwards.


If you encounter an ELF warning message, it may be related to the incorrect version of glibc. Verify that your operating system has a suitable glibc version.


Automatically Discovered Business Transactions

The Apache Agent automatically discovers the following business transactions:

TypeCustom Configuration OptionsDownstream Correlation
Web (HTTP)YesYes

By default, the agent excludes requests for the following static file types:

bmp
cab
class
conf
css
doc
gif
ico

jar
jpeg
jpg
js
mov
mp3
mp4
pdf

png
pps
properties
swf
tif
txt
zip

Remote Service Detection

Apache Modules

The Apache Agent automatically detects loaded Apache modules as remote services. The agent excludes a list of common modules from detection.

core.c

http_core.c

mod_access_compat.c

mod_actions.c

mod_alias.c

mod_allowmethods.c

mod_appdynamics.cpp

mod_auth_basic.c

mod_auth_digest.c

mod_authn_alias.c

mod_authn_anon.c

mod_authn_core.c

mod_authn_dbd.c

mod_authn_dbm.c

mod_authn_default.c

mod_authn_file.c

mod_authn_socache.c

mod_authnz_ldap.c

mod_authz_core.c

mod_authz_dbd.c

mod_authz_dbm.c

mod_authz_default.c

mod_authz_groupfile.c

mod_authz_host.c

mod_authz_owner.c

mod_authz_user.c

mod_autoindex.c

mod_cache.c

mod_cache_disk.c

mod_cgi.c

mod_data.c

mod_dbd.c

mod_deflate.c

mod_dir.c

mod_disk_cache.c

mod_dumpio.c

mod_echo.c

mod_env.c

mod_expires.c

mod_ext_filter.c

mod_file_cache.c

mod_filter.c

mod_headers.c

mod_include.c

mod_info.c

mod_lbmethod_bybusyness.c

mod_lbmethod_byrequests.c

mod_lbmethod_bytraffic.c

mod_lbmethod_heartbeat.c

mod_log_config.c

mod_logio.c

mod_lua.c

mod_mem_cache.c

mod_mime.c

mod_mime_magic.c

mod_negotiation.c

mod_perl.c

mod_python.c

mod_remoteip.c

mod_reqtimeout.c

mod_rewrite.c

mod_setenvif.c

mod_slotmem_plain.c

mod_slotmem_shm.c

mod_so.c

mod_socache_dbm.c

mod_socache_memcache.c

mod_socache_shmcb.c

mod_speling.c

mod_ssl.c

mod_status.c

mod_substitute.c

mod_suexec.c

mod_systemd.c

mod_unique_id.c

mod_unixd.c

mod_userdir.c

mod_usertrack.c

mod_version.c

mod_vhost_alias.c

prefork.c

util_ldap.c

For End User Monitoring, the Apache Agent does not support automatic injection of the Javascript adrum header and footer to instrument web pages.

Third-Party Modules

The Apache Agent >= 20.5 requires the use of the latest version of SiteMinder 12.52 SP1 to eliminate a known bug in SiteMinder.