KB-1859 Appian Cloud: metrics and monitoring

Kevin Kleinegger — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:58:35 GMT

Current Revision posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Kevin Kleinegger on 4/26/2023 5:58:35 PM

DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this document is confidential and intended solely for internal use by the recipient. It shall not be duplicated, published or disclosed in whole or in part, or used for other purposes, without the prior written permission of Appian Corporation.

Metric Types

Appian Cloud systems are implemented to monitor key operational metrics and to notify appropriate personnel when certain operational thresholds are reached. To help prevent and mitigate threats, the monitoring of these key operational metrics is automated. This monitoring includes but is not limited to the following:

Storage space availability
Memory utilization
Login page availability
Production VPN tunnel status
Appian Engine status
Anti-virus alerts

Appian Cloud authorized personnel receive notifications from the automated monitoring application and remediate items if necessary. This process is tracked in the Appian Cloud Administrative interface.

In addition to operational metrics, Appian Cloud management monitors all privileged access to Appian Cloud each business day. During the process, reviews are conducted over potentially inappropriate access and/or unusual actions. Appian reviews log files whenever the monitoring systems report a problem for a particular Appian Cloud site or whenever Appian staff members or customers identify and confirm suspicious activities on the system. Appian notifies customers about any confirmed issues via the online product support case management system.

Alert Priority

Appian Cloud monitoring and alerting infrastructure utilizes alert priority and alert type to systematically and continuously provide updated system metrics to Appian support engineers.

Alert priority considers how quickly the alert notifies the Appian Cloud operations team, for example:

Immediate
Delayed - notified after 20 minutes

Alert type considers the classification of the alert, for example:

Error
Warning
Informational

This alert classification system allows Appian Cloud engineers to see system health trends and perform analysis for alerts associated with a pattern, for example.

Alerts - Detailed

Appian collects several metrics across the Appian Cloud infrastructure. These metrics are collected and, monitored by Appian automated systems. Key operational metrics, identified above, are reported to Appian for triage and analysis. If thresholds reach a certain level of criticality, standard operating procedures are utilized to notify customers via the Appian case management system. Appian reserves the right to adjust any of the thresholds utilized for monitoring as considered appropriate to meet our service level agreement. Below are some of the Appian Cloud operational metrics collected and monitored:

Server performance
- Disk Usage (>80%, >90%, >95%)
- Memory Use (>80%, >90%)
- Load metrics
- Engine CPU Usage

Application server
- Heap usage
- Application server response times over 3 seconds greater than 60% of requests

Database
- DB connection pool
- DB replication error
- Database Cluster health

External system connectivity
- Production VPN tunnel is down

Platform components
- Hardware is unavailable
- Web server is unavailable
- Application Server is unreachable
- Appian Engines availability
- Login page failed to load
- Data-server health
- Search-server health
- Database status
- RPA
- Filesystem health

Appian Cloud infrastructure monitoring
- System audit sensors
- Logging facilities
- Security infrastructure
- Amazon AMI related alerts
- SSL certificates

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian Cloud.

Last Reviewed: April 2023

Tags: Cloud

KB-1859 Appian Cloud: metrics and monitoring

Rebecca Jonas — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 22:04:13 GMT

Revision 12 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Rebecca Jonas on 6/5/2020 10:04:13 PM

Metric Types

Storage space availability
Memory utilization
Login page availability
Production VPN tunnel status
Appian Engine status
Anti-virus alerts

Alert Priority

Appian Cloud monitoring and alerting infrastructure utilizes alert priority and alert type to systematically and continuously provide updated system metrics to Appian support engineers.

Alert priority considers how quickly the alert notifies the Appian Cloud operations team, for example:

Immediate
Delayed - notified after 20 minutes

Alert type considers the classification of the alert, for example:

Error
Warning
Informational

This alert classification system allows Appian Cloud engineers to see system health trends and perform analysis for alerts associated with a pattern, for example.

Alerts - Detailed

Server performance
- Disk Usage (>80%, >90%, >95%)
- Memory Use (>80%, >90%)

Application server
- Heap usage (>70%)
- Application server response times over 3 seconds greater than 60% of requests

Database
- DB connection pool > 80% used
- DB replication error

External system connectivity
- Production VPN tunnel is down

Platform components
- Hardware is unavailable
- Web server is unavailable
- Application Server is unreachable
- Appian Engines availability
- Login page failed to load

Appian Cloud infrastructure monitoring
- System audit sensors
- Logging facilities
- Security infrastructure

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian Cloud.

Last Reviewed: June 2020

Tags: Cloud

KB-1859 Appian Cloud: metrics and monitoring

Rebecca Jonas — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 22:03:38 GMT

Revision 11 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Rebecca Jonas on 6/5/2020 10:03:38 PM

Metric Types

Storage space availability
Memory utilization
Login page availability
Production VPN tunnel status
Appian Engine status
Anti-virus alerts

Alert Priority

Appian Cloud monitoring and alerting infrastructure utilizes alert priority and alert type to systematically and continuously provide updated system metrics to Appian support engineers.

Alert priority considers how quickly the alert notifies the Appian Cloud operations team, for example:

Immediate
Delayed - notified after 20 minutes

Alert type considers the classification of the alert, for example:

Error
Warning
Informational

This alert classification system allows Appian Cloud engineers to see system health trends and perform analysis for alerts associated with a pattern, for example.

Alerts - Detailed

Server performance
- Disk Usage (>80%, >90%, >95%)
- Memory Use (>80%, >90%)

Application server
- Heap usage (>70%)
- Application server response times over 3 seconds greater than 60% of requests

Database
- DB connection pool > 80% used
- DB replication error

External system connectivity
- Production VPN tunnel is down

Platform components
- Hardware is unavailable
- Web server is unavailable
- Application Server is unreachable
- Appian Engines availability
- Login page failed to load

Appian Cloud infrastructure monitoring
- System audit sensors
- Logging facilities
- Security infrastructure

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian Cloud.

Last Reviewed: February 2019

Tags: Cloud

KB-1859 Appian Cloud: metrics and monitoring

Jordan Horwat — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:58:24 GMT

Revision 10 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Jordan Horwat on 2/20/2019 9:58:24 PM

Metric Types

Storage space availability
Memory utilization
Login page availability
Production VPN tunnel status
Appian Engine status
Anti-virus alerts

Alert Priority

Appian Cloud monitoring and alerting infrastructure utilizes alert priority and alert type to systematically and continuously provide updated system metrics to Appian support engineers.

Alert priority considers how quickly the alert notifies the Appian Cloud operations team, for example:

Immediate
Delayed - notified after 20 minutes

Alert type considers the classification of the alert, for example:

Error
Warning
Informational

This alert classification system allows Appian Cloud engineers to see system health trends and perform analysis for alerts associated with a pattern, for example.

Alerts - Detailed

Server performance
- Disk Usage (>80%, >90%, >95%)
- Memory Use (>80%, >90%)

Application server - JBoss
- Heap usage (>70%)
- Application server response times over 3 seconds greater than 60% of requests

Database
- DB connection pool > 80% used
- DB replication error

External system connectivity
- Production VPN tunnel is down

Platform components
- Hardware is unavailable
- Web server is unavailable
- Application Server is unreachable
- Appian Engines availability
- Login page failed to load

Appian Cloud infrastructure monitoring
- System audit sensors
- Logging facilities
- Security infrastructure

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian Cloud.

Last Reviewed: February 2019

Tags: Cloud

CLOUD-1859 Appian Cloud: metrics and monitoring

Jordan Horwat — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:00:10 GMT

Revision 9 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Jordan Horwat on 2/18/2019 5:00:10 PM

Metric Types

Storage space availability
Memory utilization
Login page availability
Production VPN tunnel status
Appian Engine status
Anti-virus alerts

Alert Priority

Appian Cloud monitoring and alerting infrastructure utilizes alert priority and alert type to systematically and continuously provide updated system metrics to Appian support engineers.

Alert priority considers how quickly the alert notifies the Appian Cloud operations team, for example:

Immediate
Delayed - notified after 20 minutes

Alert type considers the classification of the alert, for example:

Error
Warning
Informational

This alert classification system allows Appian Cloud engineers to see system health trends and perform analysis for alerts associated with a pattern, for example.

Alerts - Detailed

Server performance
- Disk Usage (>80%, >90%, >95%)
- Memory Use (>80%, >90%)

Application server - JBoss
- Heap usage (>70%)
- Application server response times over 3 seconds greater than 60% of requests

Database
- DB connection pool > 80% used
- DB replication error

External system connectivity
- Production VPN tunnel is down

Platform components
- Hardware is unavailable
- Web server is unavailable
- Application Server is unreachable
- Appian Engines availability
- Login page failed to load

Appian Cloud infrastructure monitoring
- System audit sensors
- Logging facilities
- Security infrastructure

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian Cloud.

Last Reviewed: February 2019

Tags: Cloud

CLOUD-1859 Appian Cloud: metrics and monitoring

Khalil Ben Naceur — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:58:10 GMT

Revision 8 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Khalil Ben Naceur on 2/18/2019 4:58:10 PM

Metric Types

Storage space availability,
Memory utilization,
Login page availability,
Production VPN tunnel status,
Appian Engine status, and
Anti-virus alerts.

Alert Priority

Appian Cloud monitoring and alerting infrastructure utilizes alert priority and alert type to systematically and continuously provide updated system metrics to Appian support engineers.

Alert priority considers how quickly the alert notifies the Appian Cloud operations team, for example:

Immediate
Delayed - notified after 20 minutes

Alert type considers the classification of the alert, for example:

Error
Warning
Informational

This alert classification system allows Appian Cloud engineers to see system health trends and perform analysis for alerts associated with a pattern, for example.

Alerts - Detailed

Server performance
- Disk Usage (>80%, >90%, >95%)
- Memory Use (>80%, >90%)

Application server - JBoss
- Heap usage (>70%)
- Application server response times over 3 seconds greater than 60% of requests

Database
- DB connection pool > 80% used
- DB replication error

External system connectivity
- Production VPN tunnel is down

Platform components
- Hardware is unavailable
- Web server is unavailable
- Application Server is unreachable
- Appian Engines availability
- Login page failed to load

Appian Cloud infrastructure monitoring
- System audit sensors
- Logging facilities
- Security infrastructure

Last Reviewed: February 2019

Tags: Cloud

CLOUD-1859 Appian Cloud: metrics and monitoring

Khalil Ben Naceur — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:11:18 GMT

Revision 7 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Khalil Ben Naceur on 2/18/2019 4:11:18 PM

Storage space availability,
Memory utilization,
Login page availability,
Production VPN tunnel status,
Appian Engine status, and
Anti-virus alerts.

Appian Cloud monitoring and alerting infrastructure utilizes alert priority and alert type to systematically and continuously provide updated system metrics to Appian support engineers.

Alert priority considers how quickly the alert notifies the Appian Cloud operations team, for example:

Immediate
Delayed - notified after 20 minutes

Alert type considers the classification of the alert, for example:

Error
Warning
Informational

This alert classification system allows Appian Cloud engineers to see system health trends and perform analysis for alerts associated with a pattern, for example.

Server performance
- Disk Usage (>80%, >90%, >95%)
- Memory Use (>80%, >90%)

Application server - JBoss
- Heap usage (>70%)
- Application server response times over 3 seconds greater than 60% of requests

Database
- DB connection pool > 80% used
- DB replication error

External system connectivity
- Production VPN tunnel is down

Platform components
- Hardware is unavailable
- Web server is unavailable
- Application Server is unreachable
- Appian Engines availability
- Login page failed to load

Appian Cloud infrastructure monitoring
- System audit sensors
- Logging facilities
- Security infrastructure

Last Reviewed: February 2019

Tags: Cloud

CLOUD-1859 Appian Cloud: metrics and monitoring

Khalil Ben Naceur — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:10:27 GMT

Revision 6 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Khalil Ben Naceur on 2/18/2019 4:10:27 PM

Disclaimer: The information contained in this document is confidential and intended solely for internal use by the recipient. It shall not be duplicated, published or disclosed in whole or in part, or used for other purposes, without the prior written permission of Appian Corporation.

Storage space availability,
Memory utilization,
Login page availability,
Production VPN tunnel status,
Appian Engine status, and
Anti-virus alerts.

Appian Cloud monitoring and alerting infrastructure utilizes alert priority and alert type to systematically and continuously provide updated system metrics to Appian support engineers.

Alert priority considers how quickly the alert notifies the Appian Cloud operations team, for example:

Immediate
Delayed - notified after 20 minutes

Alert type considers the classification of the alert, for example:

Error
Warning
Informational

This alert classification system allows Appian Cloud engineers to see system health trends and perform analysis for alerts associated with a pattern, for example.

Server performance
- Disk Usage (>80%, >90%, >95%)
- Memory Use (>80%, >90%)

Application server - JBoss
- Heap usage (>70%)
- Application server response times over 3 seconds greater than 60% of requests

Database
- DB connection pool > 80% used
- DB replication error

External system connectivity
- Production VPN tunnel is down

Platform components
- Hardware is unavailable
- Web server is unavailable
- Application Server is unreachable
- Appian Engines availability
- Login page failed to load

Appian Cloud infrastructure monitoring
- System audit sensors
- Logging facilities
- Security infrastructure

Last Reviewed: February 2019

Tags: Cloud

CLOUD-1859 Appian Cloud: metrics and monitoring

Khalil Ben Naceur — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:01:58 GMT

Revision 5 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Khalil Ben Naceur on 2/13/2019 11:01:58 AM

Storage space availability,
CPU utilization,
Memory utilization,
Login page availability,
Production VPN tunnel status,
Appian Engine status, and
Anti-virus alerts.

Appian Cloud monitoring and alerting infrastructure utilizes alert priority and alert type to systematically and continuously provide updated system metrics to Appian support engineers.

Alert priority considers how quickly the alert notifies the Appian Cloud operations team, for example:

Immediate
Delayed - notified after 20 minutes

Alert type considers the classification of the alert, for example:

Error
Warning
Informational

This alert classification system allows Appian Cloud engineers to see system health trends and perform analysis for alerts associated with a pattern, for example.

Server performance
- CPU Load Average (15 minutes)
- Disk Usage (>80%, >90%, >95%)
- Memory Use (>80%, >90%)

Application server - JBoss
- Heap usage (>70%, >90%)
- Application server response times over 3 seconds greater than 60% of requests

Database
- DB connection pool > 80% used
- Production DB replication error

External system connectivity
- Production VPN tunnel is down

Platform components
- Hardware is unavailable
- Web server is unavailable
- Application Server is unreachable
- Appian Engines availability
- Login page failed to load

Appian Cloud infrastructure monitoring
- System audit sensors
- Logging facilities
- Security infrastructure

Last Reviewed: February 2019

Tags: Cloud

CLOUD-1859 Appian Cloud: metrics and monitoring

Jordan Horwat — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 17:30:04 GMT

Revision 1 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Jordan Horwat on 2/8/2019 5:30:04 PM

Storage space availability,
CPU utilization,
Memory utilization,
Login page availability,
Appian Engine status, and
Anti-virus alerts.

Appian Cloud monitoring and alerting infrastructure utilizes alert priority and alert type to systematically and continuously provide updated system metrics to Appian support engineers.

Alert priority considers how quickly the alert notifies the Appian Cloud operations team, for example:

1. Immediate
2. Delayed - notified after 20 minutes

Alert type considers the classification of the alert, for example:

1. Error
2. Warning
3. Informational

This alert classification system allows Appian Cloud engineers to see system health trends and perform analysis for alerts associated with a pattern, for example.

Server performance
- CPU Load Average (15 minutes)
- Disk Usage (>80%, >90%, >95%)
- Memory Use (>80%, >90%)

Application server - JBoss
- Heap usage (>70%, >90%)
- Application server response times over 3 seconds greater than 60% of requests

Database
- DB connection pool > 80% used

Platform components
- Hardware is unavailable
- Web server is unavailable
- Application Server is unreachable
- Appian Engines availability
- Login page failed to load

Appian Cloud infrastructure monitoring
- System audit sensors
- Logging facilities
- Security infrastructure

Last Reviewed: February 2019

Tags: Cloud

CLOUD-1859 Appian Cloud: metrics and monitoring

Jordan Horwat — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:32:23 GMT

Revision 4 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Jordan Horwat on 2/8/2019 12:32:23 PM

Storage space availability,
CPU utilization,
Memory utilization,
Login page availability,
Appian Engine status, and
Anti-virus alerts.

Appian Cloud monitoring and alerting infrastructure utilizes alert priority and alert type to systematically and continuously provide updated system metrics to Appian support engineers.

Alert priority considers how quickly the alert notifies the Appian Cloud operations team, for example:

Immediate
Delayed - notified after 20 minutes

Alert type considers the classification of the alert, for example:

Error
Warning
Informational

This alert classification system allows Appian Cloud engineers to see system health trends and perform analysis for alerts associated with a pattern, for example.

Server performance
- CPU Load Average (15 minutes)
- Disk Usage (>80%, >90%, >95%)
- Memory Use (>80%, >90%)

Application server - JBoss
- Heap usage (>70%, >90%)
- Application server response times over 3 seconds greater than 60% of requests

Database
- DB connection pool > 80% used

Platform components
- Hardware is unavailable
- Web server is unavailable
- Application Server is unreachable
- Appian Engines availability
- Login page failed to load

Appian Cloud infrastructure monitoring
- System audit sensors
- Logging facilities
- Security infrastructure

Last Reviewed: February 2019

Tags: Cloud

CLOUD-1859 Appian Cloud: metrics and monitoring

Jordan Horwat — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:32:09 GMT

Revision 3 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Jordan Horwat on 2/8/2019 12:32:09 PM

Storage space availability,
CPU utilization,
Memory utilization,
Login page availability,
Appian Engine status, and
Anti-virus alerts.

Appian Cloud monitoring and alerting infrastructure utilizes alert priority and alert type to systematically and continuously provide updated system metrics to Appian support engineers.

Alert priority considers how quickly the alert notifies the Appian Cloud operations team, for example:

Immediate
Delayed - notified after 20 minutes

Alert type considers the classification of the alert, for example:

Error
Warning
Informational

This alert classification system allows Appian Cloud engineers to see system health trends and perform analysis for alerts associated with a pattern, for example.

Server performance
- CPU Load Average (15 minutes)
- Disk Usage (>80%, >90%, >95%)
- Memory Use (>80%, >90%)

Application server - JBoss
- Heap usage (>70%, >90%)
- Application server response times over 3 seconds greater than 60% of requests

Database
- DB connection pool > 80% used

Platform components
- Hardware is unavailable
- Web server is unavailable
- Application Server is unreachable
- Appian Engines availability
- Login page failed to load

Appian Cloud infrastructure monitoring
- System audit sensors
- Logging facilities
- Security infrastructure

Last Reviewed: February 2019

Tags: Cloud

CLOUD-1859 Appian Cloud: metrics and monitoring

Jordan Horwat — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:31:38 GMT

Revision 2 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Jordan Horwat on 2/8/2019 12:31:38 PM

Storage space availability,
CPU utilization,
Memory utilization,
Login page availability,
Appian Engine status, and
Anti-virus alerts.

Appian Cloud monitoring and alerting infrastructure utilizes alert priority and alert type to systematically and continuously provide updated system metrics to Appian support engineers.

Alert priority considers how quickly the alert notifies the Appian Cloud operations team, for example:

Immediate
Delayed - notified after 20 minutes

Alert type considers the classification of the alert, for example:

Error
Warning
Informational

This alert classification system allows Appian Cloud engineers to see system health trends and perform analysis for alerts associated with a pattern, for example.

Server performance
- CPU Load Average (15 minutes)
- Disk Usage (>80%, >90%, >95%)
- Memory Use (>80%, >90%)

Application server - JBoss
- Heap usage (>70%, >90%)
- Application server response times over 3 seconds greater than 60% of requests

Database
- DB connection pool > 80% used

Platform components
- Hardware is unavailable
- Web server is unavailable
- Application Server is unreachable
- Appian Engines availability
- Login page failed to load

Appian Cloud infrastructure monitoring
- System audit sensors
- Logging facilities
- Security infrastructure

Last Reviewed: February 2019

Tags: Cloud