Machine Agent Chart

AppDynamics is an application intelligence platform that provides end-to-end visibility into performance of business-critical applications. This chart deploys AppDynamics MachineAgent Daemonset to the cluster.

Prerequisites

Quick start

$ helm repo add  appdynamics-charts https://ciscodevnet.github.io/appdynamics-chart

$ helm repo update


helm install --namespace=appdynamics \
--set controller.accessKey=<controller-key> --set controller.host=<*.saas.appdynamics.com> \
--set controller.port=443 --set controller.ssl=true \
--set controller.accountName=<account-name> --set controller.globalAccountName=<global-account-name> \
--set analytics.eventEndpoint=https://analytics.api.appdynamics.com --set agent.netviz=true serverviz appdynamics-charts/machine-agent

helm install ./machine-agent --name=stable --namespace=appdynamics \
--set controller.accessKey=<controller-key> --set controller.host=<*.saas.appdynamics.com> \
--set controller.port=443 --set controller.ssl=true --set controller.accountName=<account-name> \
--set controller.globalAccountName=<global-account-name> \
--set analytics.eventEndpoint=https://analytics.api.appdynamics.com \
--set openshift.scc=true --set agent.netviz=true

Configuration settings

Parameter Description Default
controller.host Host name of AppDynamics controller  
controller.port Appdynamics Controller port number 443
controller.ssl Use ssl to connect to AppDynamics controller true
controller.accountName AppDynamics account name customer1
controller.globalAccountName AppDynamics global account name  
controller.accessKey Access key to the AppDynamics controller  
agent.simEnabled Infrastructure monitoring enabled true
agent.dockerEnabled Container monitoring enabled true
agent.includeMasters Deploy agent to master nodes. The flag has no effect in managed cloud environments true
agent.logLevel Agent logging level info
agent.stdoutLogging Send logging to console false
agent.hierarchyPath Path of host names in AppDynamics controller  
agent.uniqueHostId Unique host id override  
agent.metricsLimit Max number of metrics accepted by the controller from the agent 4000
agent.proxyHost Proxy host name  
agent.proxyPort Proxy host name  
agent.proxyUser Proxy username  
agent.proxyPass Proxy password  
agent.enableContainerAsHostID Controls the value of the Dappdynamics.docker.container.containerIdAsHostId.enabled parameter of the machine agent false
agent.netviz Include network visibility agent false
netvizPort Host port number for the network visibility agent 3892
netvizImage.image.repository Name of the network agent image docker.io/appdynamics/machine-agent-netviz
netvizImage.image.tag Tag of the network agent image latest
netvizImage.image.pullPolicy The network agent image pull policy Always
analytics.eventEndpoint Analytics service endpoint https://analytics.api.appdynamics.com/
analytics.port Analytics service port  
serviceAccount.create Flag indicating that the service account will be created true
serviceAccount.name Service account name. appdynamics-infraviz
rbac.create Flag indicating that the roles for the service account will be created true
openshift.scc Creates scc for the service account on OpenShift. Set to false for all other Kubernetes distributions true
daemonset.image.repository Name of the machine agent image docker.io/appdynamics/machine-agent-analytics
daemonset.image.tag Tag of the machine agent image latest
daemonset.image.pullPolicy The machine agent image pull policy Always
daemonset.nodeSelector Node selector directive  
daemonset.tolerations Tolerations directive  
daemonset.resources Resources directive See below
daemonset.priorityClassName Priority class reference, e.g. system-node-critical. Optional. When set to system-node-critical the chart must be deployed to kube-system namespace

Example resource limits:

   resources:
    limits:
      cpu: 600m
      memory: "1G"
    requests: 
      cpu: 300m
      memory: "800M"