AppDynamics REST API Library

Current version: 0.4.5 Released: 23-Jun-2015

Introduction

AppDynamicsREST is a library that provides a clean Python interface to the REST API of an AppDynamics controller.

AppDynamicsREST is developed using Python 2.7.6 on Mac OSX. It is known to work on most Linux distributions and on Windows, with your choice of Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, or 3.4.

Installation

Install via pip:

$ pip install AppDynamicsREST

Install from source:

$ git clone git://github.com/tradel/AppDynamicsREST.git
$ cd AppDynamicsREST
$ python setup.py install

Prerequisites

• requests
• argparse
• nose (for running unit tests)
• tzlocal and lxml (used by some of the example scripts)
• jinja2 (used by the audit report example)

Documentation

The documentation is hosted online at readthedocs.org.

A Quick Example

Here's a simple example that retrieves a list of business applications from a controller on localhost, and prints them out:

from appd.request import AppDynamicsClient

c = AppDynamicsClient('http://localhost:8090', 'user1', 'password', 'customer1', verbose=True)
for app in c.get_applications():
    print app.name, app.id

Testing

If you have cloned the repo, you can run the unit tests from setup.py:

python setup.py test

Or, if you have nose installed, you can use that:

nosetests

For More Information

The main source repo is on Github.

To ask a question or join the discussion, visit the AppDynamics Community page.