The ASM platform is designed to easily integrate with various integration options to better streamline the user experience. These integration options allow you to configure other services within Apica which will enhance your team’s ability to gain insight into application performance.

Integrations can best be divided into four distinct categories - see the “Use Case Overview” section below:

Monitoring
Notification
Access Management
Content delivery

To access available integration options, hover over the “Integrations” item on the top level toolbar:

Integrations Menu

Use Case Overview

A. Monitoring

Once you have provided API credentials to an Integration Partner, you can easily retrieve and view the statistics.
Simply click on the relevant Integration link, and the results will be displayed accordingly.
The data from each integration can be compared to the check results.

Caveat: each of the following integration directions was based on the UI when it was written. The UIs may change by the time you read this, so UI updates are beyond the scope of these articles. Please go to the integration target sites for their latest information on integration directions.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics integration provides insight into the correlation between actual traffic metrics and ongoing monitoring checks.

AppDynamics

AppDynamics integration provides access to AppDynamics data.

Integrating with AppDynamics provides you with a dashboard containing AppDynamic metrics, and allows you to compare check metrics against AppDynamics Business Transactions response times. You can also trigger and view AppDynamics Snapshots.

Akamai

By monitoring the relationship between response times and actual traffic pushed through Akamai over time, you can better understand your environment and more easily troubleshoot problems as they arise.

DynaTrace

With the DynaTrace integration, you can access stack monitoring information provided by the DynaTrace platform.

Splunk

Splunk is an IT infrastructure platform for data collection from multiple online sources to use for, among other things, performance management, monitoring, and data analysis.

B. Notification

PagerDuty

With the PagerDuty integration, you can manage and deliver alerts from Synthetic Monitoring.

OpsGenie

The OpsGenie integration allows Alerts to be delivered to OpsGenie via the Default API Integration.

C. Access Management

Centrify

Centrify provides an identity provider service that has its users and roles management.

These external users can be integrated with Synthetic Monitoring, allowing Single Sign-On as a login method.

D. Content Delivery

By monitoring the response times from your CDN Origins and global traffic served by your CDN servers, you will be able to gauge if Service Level Agreements are being met.

Akamai

Akamai CDN Services is the leading Content Delivery Network platform for security, DNS, and media.

Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS)

Verizon Digital Media Services is a Content Delivery Platform for accelerating media and other content delivery.