# AppDynamics

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/appdynamics/  
**Website:** https://developer.cisco.com/site/appdynamics/  
**APIs profiled:** 25

AppDynamics, now part of Cisco, is an application performance monitoring (APM) and observability platform that provides full-stack visibility into application, business, and infrastructure performance. The platform offers REST APIs for controller management, metrics, alerts, analytics events, database monitoring, and the next-generation Cisco Cloud Observability platform.

## Kin Score — 27.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 27.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 21.5 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 47.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 32.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (25)

- **AppDynamics Actions API** — Manage automated response actions triggered by policies including email notifications, HTTP requests, and custom scripts.
- **AppDynamics Actions Export/Import API** — Export and import action configurations for alerting workflows.
- **AppDynamics Applications API** — Retrieve business application names, IDs, and related metadata from the Controller.
- **AppDynamics Backends API** — Retrieve registered backend components detected by the Controller including their properties and exit point types.
- **AppDynamics Business Transactions API** — Retrieve business transaction information including names, IDs, entry points, and detection status.
- **AppDynamics Configurations API** — Configure data collection settings for cloud connections including service selection, region filtering, and resource group scoping.
- **AppDynamics Connections API** — Manage cloud provider connections for AWS, Azure, and GCP to enable automated cloud monitoring at scale.
- **AppDynamics Custom Dashboards Export/Import API** — Export and import custom dashboard configurations.
- **AppDynamics Custom Metrics API** — Upload custom metrics to the AppDynamics Controller through the Machine Agent HTTP listener. Metrics must be uploaded at least once every 300 seconds to remain active.
- **AppDynamics Database Collectors API** — Manage database collectors that monitor performance and availability of database instances including creation, retrieval, update, and deletion.
- **AppDynamics Events API** — Publish custom analytics events to the Events Service for storage and analysis.
- **AppDynamics Health Rules API** — Manage health rules that define performance thresholds and violation conditions for monitored applications.
- **AppDynamics Health Rules Export/Import API** — Export and import health rule configurations for backup, migration, and provisioning across Controller instances.
- **AppDynamics Metrics API** — Retrieve metric hierarchy and metric data for monitored applications with configurable time ranges and aggregation.
- **AppDynamics Nodes API** — Retrieve node information for monitored applications including node names, IDs, machine details, and agent versions.
- **AppDynamics OAuth Tokens API** — Generate and manage OAuth 2.0 access tokens for authenticating against AppDynamics APIs using the Client Credentials Grant flow.
- **AppDynamics Policies API** — Manage alerting policies that connect health rule violations to automated response actions.
- **AppDynamics Queries API** — Query stored events using the AppDynamics Analytics Query Language (ADQL) for custom analytics and reporting.
- **AppDynamics Query Service API** — Query MELT observation data using the Cisco AppDynamics domain-specific query language.
- **AppDynamics Reference Data API** — Retrieve lists of supported cloud regions and services for connection configuration.
- **AppDynamics Schemas API** — Manage custom event schemas that define the structure and data types for custom analytics events.
- **AppDynamics Server Status API** — Check the status of the AppDynamics Controller server.
- **AppDynamics Snapshots API** — Retrieve transaction request snapshots for detailed performance analysis of individual requests.
- **AppDynamics Tiers API** — Retrieve tier information for monitored applications including tier names and IDs.
- **AppDynamics Transaction Detection Export/Import API** — Export and import business transaction detection rule configurations.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Appdynamics Agentic Access** — 65 operations · 33 acting

## Security (2)

- **Appdynamics Authentication** — apiKey/http · 3 schemes
- **Appdynamics Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Appdynamics Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Application Performance Optimization** — Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks at the code level before they impact end users.
- **DevOps Integration** — Integrate performance monitoring into CI/CD pipelines using the Controller REST API.
- **Cloud Migration Monitoring** — Monitor application performance during and after cloud migration using Cloud Observability.
- **Business Impact Analysis** — Correlate application performance data with business metrics using the Analytics Events API.
- **Automated Incident Response** — Automate incident response workflows by integrating AppDynamics alerting with ticketing systems.

## Tags

APM, Application Performance Monitoring, Cisco, Cloud Observability, DevOps, Monitoring, Observability, OpenTelemetry

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/appdynamics/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.