APM Insight PHP Agent

PHP agent deployed on Web Server gives you end-to-end web-transaction awareness enabling you to isolate performance issues and resolve them quickly. To monitor your PHP application performance, you will need to deploy the APM Insight PHP agent onto your web server. The agent collects application performance metrics and sends it to Applications Manager server every 60 seconds.

Requirements: PHP 5.5 to 8.4 (In both Linux and Windows), Linux OS (64 bit/ ARM, Alpine), and Windows

Webservers supported: IIS, Apache2, NGINX or any other FPM based webserver.

Frameworks supported: Codeigniter, CakePHP, Laravel, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Magento, Symfony

Databases supported: Redis, Memcache, MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, MSSQL, Postgres and PDO based DB queries.

PHP Agent Setup

PHP version 7.0 and above

• Install PHP Agent for Windows
• Install PHP Agent for Linux
• Install the PHP agent in a Docker container
• Modifying the PHP agent configurations
• Uninstall PHP Agent for Windows
• Uninstall PHP Agent for Linux

PHP version below 7.0

• Install PHP Agent for Linux
• Install PHP Agent for Windows
• Uninstall PHP Agent for Linux
• Uninstall PHP Agent for Windows

Note: Do not install the APM Insight Agent along with other Application Performance Management (APM) tools. The APM Insight Agent installation may fail if there are other APM products installed in the same environment.

Agent Configurations

• PHP Agent Configuration
• Group Similar Transaction
• Multi Monitor Support
• Custom Parameter support
• Auto scaling

Support for AWS environment

• Install PHP Agent in AWS Beanstalk

Support for Kubernetes environment

• Add the PHP agent in Kubernetes via init containers

Agent Performance Report

APM Insight PHP Agent is optimized for minimal impact on the application. To understand about the resource utilization of PHP Agent, refer here.