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Overview

The Health Check report provides a health grade of key application configurations within AppDynamics. It describes well a particular application’s monitoring is configured and identifies configuration gaps, which could prevent customers from getting maximum value from AppDynamics.

Health Check report is produced when:

Example Job File.

Report File Locations

Entity Metrics report has the following file name:

Report\HealthCheck.<Job File Name>.<Start Date and Time in yyyyMMddHHmm>.<Number Of Hours Spanned By Report>.xlsx

For example:

HealthCheck.demodev.all.201910232300-201910240000.xlsx

Data File Locations

The data for the report is in the following files:

  • Report\HEALTH\healthcheck.PLAT.results.csv
  • Report\HEALTHAPM\healthcheck.APM.results.csv

Report Contents

Data Pivot
1.Parameters
2.Contents
3.Controllers
4.Applications.All
5.Health Check Results 5.Health Check Results.Desc
5.Health Check Results.Display
6. [Category] Detail Sheet

1.Parameters

This sheet describes the parameters of the extraction and reporting job that produced this report.

Column Data Type Purpose
Controller URL Controller that was queried
UserName String User that was used to retrieve data from the Controller
Application String Name of Application that was queried
ApplicationID Integer ID of Application in Controller
ApplicationType String Type of the Application

2.Contents

This sheet provides quick access to the contents of this report and provides at-a-glance number of rows in each of the sheet's tables.

Column Data Type Purpose
Sheet Name String Name of the sheet in the report
Num Entities Integer Number of Entities in that sheet
Link Hyperlink Link to the sheet in the report

3.Controllers

This sheet provides information about Controllers covered by this report.

Column Data Type Purpose
Controller URL Controller that was queried
Version String Version of the Controller
VersionDetail String Full version string of the Controller
NumApps Integer Number of All Applications registered in the Controller
NumAPMApps Integer Number of APM Applications registered in the Controller
NumWEBApps Integer Number of WEB Applications registered in the Controller
NumMOBILEApps Integer Number of MOBILE Applications registered in the Controller
NumIOTApps Integer Number of IoT Applications registered in the Controller
NumSIMApps Integer Number of SIM Applications registered in the Controller
NumBIQApps Integer Number of BIQ Applications registered in the Controller
NumDBApps Integer Number of DB Applications registered in the Controller
ControllerLink URL Link to Controller

4.Applications.All

This sheet lists all Applications of any Type in all Controllers covered by this report.

Column Data Type Purpose
Controller URL Controller that was queried
ApplicationName String Name of Application
Description String Description of Application, if set
Type String Type of the Application
Types Array Types of Application in this application. Most commonly seen are APM and WEB grouped together
CreatedBy String Who created this Application
CreatedOn DateTime When the Application was created, local time
CreatedOnUtc DateTime When the Application was created, UTC time
UpdatedBy String Who updated this Application last
UpdatedOn DateTime When the Application was updated, local time
UpdatedOnUtc DateTime When the Application was updated, UTC time
ApplicationID Integer ID of Application in Controller
ParentApplicationID Integer ID of Parent Application. Used by MOBILE Applications

5.Health Check Results

Contain results of evaluation of health rules.

Column Data Type Purpose
Controller URL Controller that was queried
Application String Name of Application
EntityType String Type of evaluated Entity
EntityName String Name of evaluated Entity
Category String Category of the health rule
Code String Health rule code
Name String Name of the health rule
Grade Integer Grade (1-5), with 1 lowest and 5 highest
Description String Description of health rule evaluation
EvaluationTime DateTime When the
Version String Description of Application, if set
ApplicationID Integer ID of Application in Controller
EntityID Integer ID of Entity evaluated
RuleLink URL Link to the Application Summary report section for this rule

5.Health Check Results.Desc

This sheet uses data in 5.Health Check Results sheet as source for pivot table to enable summary reporting and ad-hoc drill-down.

Default configuration provides list of health rule evaluations by the Category, EntityType and Rule Name.

Columns Rows Values Filters
Grade
Controller
Application
Category
EntityType
Name
Description
Name (Count)

Example report showing some Rules:

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5.Health Check Results.Display

This table summarizes health rule evaluation ratings by the Category.

Column Data Type Purpose
Controller URL Controller that was queried
Application String Name of Application
ApplicationID Integer ID of Application in Controller
[Category Name 1] Integer Average rating for this Category
[Category Name 2] Integer Average rating for this Category

Each Category has a "See Details" link which takes you to the sheet that shows the results of the health check

Example report showing several categories:

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6. [Category] Detail Sheet

Each of the Categories in the health check produces a separate sheet with tables.

Column Data Type Purpose
Controller URL Controller that was queried
Application String Name of Application
ApplicationID Integer ID of Application in Controller
EntityType String Type of evaluated Entity
EntityName String Name of evaluated Entity
[Rule Name 1] Integer Average rating for this Rule
[Rule Name 2] Integer Average rating for this Rule

Mouse over the average value to see the rule description.

Example report showing several categories:

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