In this topic, you will identify the organizational goals needed to implement an Application Performance Monitoring solution.  You will then take those goals and learn how to outline an effective APM strategy document.  Finally, you will use that document to establish a strategy for your organization and to build a blueprint for success using AppDynamics.

Establishing an APM Strategy

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What You Will Learn

 In this topic, you will identify the best practices for implementing key performance indicators that are both measurable and relevant to your organization.  You will then be able to apply those KPIs in a way that creates a better experience for your customers.  Finally, you will learn how to transform basic metrics into key performance indicators that can quantify application performance.

Defining Relevant Key Performance Indicators

 In this topic, you will identify the best practices for implementing and using business transactions within AppDynamics.  You will learn to define and prioritize business critical transactions and deploy proper service endpoints that support these transactions.  Finally, you will learn how to construct meaningful business transactions that support your Application Performance Management strategy.  

Identifying Proper Business Transactions

 In this topic, you will identify the components of an AppDynamics flow map and learn how flow maps update and receive data.  This information is vital to explain how it is beneficial and necessary to keep your flow maps complex.  Finally, you will identify the best practices for using AppDynamics flow maps.

Optimizing Application Flow Maps

 In this topic, you will review the components of an AppDynamics health rule and learn how health rules can be implemented.  Using this knowledge, you will apply your Application Performance Management strategy as you identify the best practices for implementing health rules, policies and alerts.

Establishing Proactive Health Rules

 In this topic, you will learn how to respond proactively to application issues by using lower environments as troubleshooting tools.  You will identify how to manage and automate your lower environments to mitigate risk and to instill a culture of experimentation.  Finally, you will review the best practices for using AppDynamics throughout your lower environments.   

Using Lower Environments as Troubleshooting Tools

 In this topic, you will examine the positive impacts of implementing AppDynamics Business iQ.  You will learn how to correlate application performance with real business outcomes, thus reducing your mean time to detect, diagnose, and repair application issues. 

Correlating Data with Performance Goals

 In this topic, you will summarize the benefits of implementing a continuous delivery philosophy to maintain customer satisfaction and to improve your overall product quality.  You will then learn how to implement continuous delivery using AppDynamics.

Applying a Continuous Delivery Philosophy

 Use this runbook to follow a step-by-step guide on how to drive your application performance management success using AppDynamics.  This runbook will reinforce key aspects and best practices of the product in a logical order and time frame.

Runbook

 In this course, you will learn how to successfully utilize AppDynamics as a tool to support your Application Performance Monitoring best practices.  You will discover how to break down barriers within your organization and get everyone speaking the same AppDynamics language.  Finally, this course will help mold your APM strategy and offer many best practices for driving your APM success.

Driving APM Success using AppDynamics - APM300


This course is for anyone planning to implement AppDynamics in their organization.

In this course, you will learn how to establish a proper APM strategy, define relevant key performance indicators, identify proper business transactions, optimize your application flow maps, and establish proactive health rules.  In addition, you will learn how to respond quickly and proactively to application issues by using lower environments as troubleshooting tools.  You will then discover how to implement a philosophy of smart transaction monitoring.  Finally, you will learn how to facilitate communication between all AppDynamics users and bridge the gap between IT and your business.


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