Introduction

Simple extension to allow writing custom metrics to AppDynamics

Prerequisites

• Java 7 or later

Download

Releases of the extension are available at GitHub Releases

Building

./gradlew clean check zip

Installation

• Unzip http-bridge-extension-1.0.zip into the machineagent monitors directory
• Ensure that the values in the task-arguments section in monitor.xml are satisfactory.

Posting Data

• Request should be posted to http://localhost:9999/hostmetrics/metric as a form

Fields

• name: Pipe(|) separated path of the custom metric.
• value: long value of the metric
• aggregationtype
• rolluptype
• clusterrolluptype

Examples

Posting an averaged value

curl -d "name=Custom Metrics|Useless|Average&value=0&aggregationtype=AVERAGE&rolluptype=AVERAGE&clusterrolluptype=INDIVIDUAL" http://localhost:9999/hostmetrics/metric