# Monitor application and infrastructure performance from your OpManager console with our Applications Manager plugin

![ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/appplications-manager-plugin-banner.svg)

## Applications Manager plugin overview

Digital services are the lifeblood of many businesses, and the synergy between network and application monitoring is the key to maintaining competitiveness and customer satisfaction. The ManageEngine Applications Manager plugin for OpManager helps you gain granular insight into the performance of your applications, along with your network devices, servers, and storage devices—all from a single console. This holistic approach allows you to correlate application and network performance data, enabling you to pinpoint the root causes of issues with precision, grasp their business impact, and ultimately provide uninterrupted, superior end-user experiences.

![Network Configuration Manager - ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-1.png)

## Top features of the Applications Manager plugin

### Support for more than 150 enterprise technologies

Gain comprehensive insight into your application architecture as you seamlessly discover, visualize, and map dependencies across your entire application stack. Monitor the health, availability, and performance of a diverse range of application and infrastructure components, including application servers, databases, websites, middleware, ERP systems, cloud resources, containers, and more, all through a unified console.

![Applications Manager supports 150+ technologies - both on-premise and on cloud](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-2.png)

### Database monitoring

Proactively monitor business critical metrics across your relational, NoSQL (non-relational SQL), in-memory, and key-value databases. Deep dive into database transactions and track key metrics like user sessions, backups, jobs, locks, connection stats, replication details, and more. Analyze, identify slow-running queries and quickly pinpoint the root cause of issues.

![Proactively monitor the performance of your databases with Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-3.png)

### Application performance monitoring

Gain holistic code-level visibility into the performance of your applications running on Java, .Net, .Net core, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python, and Node js platforms. Leverage distributed tracing to track transactions across your microservices seamlessly. Track errors, exceptions, and easily eliminate performance bottlenecks.

![Gain unparalleled insight into the performance of your applications](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-4.png)

### Cloud and container monitoring

Effectively monitor private, public, and hybrid cloud stacks across your vendors like AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, OpenStack, and others. Enhance the efficiency of your cloud migration process by analyzing performance trends both before and after migration. Understand resource utilization and manage cloud costs better.

![Effectively track your performance across your private, public, and hybrid cloud stacks](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-5.png)

### Website monitoring

Track the availability and performance of your websites. Get notified instantly when the website goes down, or if the page loading time increases. Auto-crawl and monitor website for content changes to prevent unauthorized changes or website defacement. Analyze website performance for insights to improve page speed.

![Understand and analyze the performance of your website](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-6.png)

### Digital experience monitoring

Deliver uninterrupted digital experiences to your end users by harnessing the capabilities of both synthetic and real user monitoring. Employ synthetic monitoring to replicate user journeys in pre-production environments, proactively identifying and remedying performance issues. Concurrently, leverage real user monitoring to gain immediate insights into user interactions and experiences across diverse geographical locations.

![Optimize and track user journeys with digital experience monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-7.png)

## Benefits of this plugin:

![Network Configuration Management add-on - ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/opm-ncm-benefits-having-add-on.svg)

- Easily visualize your entire application stack, from browser to back-end database, and seamlessly integrate network and application layer insights throughout your IT environment.
- Automatically discover applications and networks by gaining business centric views into the IT infrastructure. Correlate the infrastructure performance to business outcomes.
- Get alerts on application issues in your OpManager console. Leverage smart, proactive, ML-based alerts to detect issues faster, and take corrective actions before end users become aware.
- Swiftly pinpoint to the root cause of issues whether they are related to the application, or the network. Expedite issue resolution and minimize downtime.
- Enhance performance and cost efficiency by making informed decisions about resource allocation and scaling.
- Deliver flawless digital experience by understanding how users interact with your application in real time.

## Simple steps to enable the Applications Manager plugin

1. **The Applications Manager plugin can be enabled via two options:**

   a) The free, 30-day trial of the plugin  
   b) The full license activation of the plugin

2. **a) The free, 30-day trial of the plugin**

   - To enable the free, 30-day trial of the add-on, go to Settings > Display Modules in your OpManager console. Select Application Monitoring (Applications Manager) and click **Save.**

   ![Access Applications Manager from your OpManager console](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-8.png)

   - Another method is to click on the **Applications** tab. There, you will find an option to enable the plugin as a free, 30-day trial.

   ![Download 30-day free trial of Applications Manager plugin from OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-9.png)

3. **b) The full license activation of the plugin**

   You can choose the number of monitors for the Applications Manager plugin and acquire them, which will activate the add-on right away.

## Steps to access the different features in Applications Manager plugin

1. To access the **Application Performance Monitoring (APM)** module, download the APM Insight agent of your choice.

   ![Access application performance monitoring (APM Insight) from your OpManager console](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-10.png)

2. To activate cloud monitoring, navigate to the **Cloud** tab and configure your preferred vendor settings.

   ![Configure various Cloud services with ease](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-11.png)

3. To enable End user experience monitoring, [download the EUM agent.](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/help/installing-eum-agent.html?apm-plugin-page) To add a Real Browser Monitor, you need to [add the Applications Manager Web Transaction Recorder extension to your browser.](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/help/rbm-browser-extension.html)

   ![Enable end user monitoring by downloading and configuring your EUM agent](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-12.png)

4. To enable Real user monitoring, download the RUM agent, complete the prerequisites, and then add the monitor. You can find the [configuration details here.](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/help/configuring-rum-monitoring.html)

   ![Configure the RUM agent and enable real user monitoring with Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-13.png)

5. To access Applications Manager reports directly from OpManager console, go to **Reports -> Applications** and select the report of your choice.

   ![Access Applications Manager reports directly from OpManager console](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-14.png)
   ![Create advanced reports for your application components with ease](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-15.png)

6. Visualize application performance within the OpManager dashboard by adding **Application Widgets** available in the Add Widgets page.

   ![Customize your dashboards by accessing Application widgets](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/apm-plugin-16.png)

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