Application Performance Management (APM) – Focused on the Dynatrace® Software Product Training Course

Overview

Application Performance Management (APM) is the monitoring and management of performance and availability of software applications. Dynatrace is a tool for monitoring applications and infrastructure in real-time in an enterprise environment.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to use the Dynatrace® software product to efficiently diagnose their organization’s applications, services and infrastructure across different platforms and hardware.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Dynatrace.
• Understand the concepts behind Application Performance Management (APM).
• Monitor, optimize, and scale applications on-premise and in the cloud.
• Monitor the health of an organization’s network, hardware and software.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Requirements

• An understanding of general IT, administration and monitoring concepts (e.g., application and resource monitoring)

Audience

• Operations professionals
• System administrators
• DevOps
• Infrastructure engineers

Course Outline

Introduction

• What is full-stack monitoring?

Overview of Dynatrace Features and Architecture

• Dynatrace Deep Monitoring
• Dynatrace servers, clients, and agents
• Synthetic monitors

Setting up Dynatrace

• Understanding the licensing
• Installing agents

Administrative Tasks

• Managing the server and clients
• Managing user permissions and authentication

Application Monitoring

• How sensors work
• Navigating the client and web monitors
• Monitoring business transactions
• Monitoring SLAs

Infrastructure Monitoring

• Monitoring the health of a host
• Monitoring the health of a process

Database Monitoring

• Monitoring the health of a database
• Inspecting an SQL execution

Network Monitoring

• Monitoring network traffic
• Anomaly detection

Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring

• Cloud native use cases
• Integrating cloud native platform metrics
• Capturing full-stack metrics

Managing User Experience

• Web, Android and iOS applications
• Diagnosing application issues using Root Cause Analysis

Alerts, Notifications and Reports

• Creating a dashboard
• Generating reports
• Capturing incidents and sending alerts

Troubleshooting

Summary and Conclusion