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Ahh that's a bit more complicated. I'd have to think about the first one, but off the top of my head you may be able to open your Application in the Controller GUI, then go to "Configuration" on the left-hand menu then click on "Instrumentation" then "Error Detection" and maybe set some sort of Error using a redirect or an HTTP Code (Maybe 405?), but I'm not sure how your app is designed or your "login" call works. (Error detection documentation can be found here: https://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO45/Error+Detection). I'm not sure though I'll have to play with it to see. As for your second issue, you can do that fairly easier, by creating a Health Rule for that application, using the "Business Transaction Performance (load, response time, slow calls, etc)" Health Rule Type, then select the exact Business Transaction you want, and create a "Critical Condition" using a metric value of > 30 for response time. Then just create a Policy and Action to trigger that rule. Also, depending on how your application is setup, you may be able to do a 2for1 by adding multiple conditions in the Health Rule set to use an "Any" condition to trigger off your 5 failed login attempts to, but it'll probably use an "errors per minute" metric instead. ... View more

One way might be to add the WebLogic Custom Extension (found here: https://www.appdynamics.com/community/exchange/extension/weblogic-monitoring-extension/). If it doesn't automatically pull the data you want, you're interested in, you can add that custom metric in the Extension to report into your Controller: https://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO45/Build+a+Monitoring+Extension+Using+Java   ... View more

If I am understanding your question correctly, then you're trying to setup a health rule that triggers if your agent doesn't report in 5 times in a row over a 30 second period. Since the agents only report in every minute, I don't think this will be possible unless AppD adds a "ping" feature which allows users to set their own intervals (a feature I'd love to have too for better Server HealthCheck Monitoring). Your best bet may be to set your health rule to look at the past 1 minute's worth of data and report 1 minute after that if the Agent Availability % drops below 1 or has No data. This won't give you a 30 second response time, but a 120 second one, so you'll have to decide if that extra 90 seconds is acceptable or not. ... View more

Can you build it as a custom metric, and then use that to call in a healthrule/dashboard? https://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO45/Configuring+Custom+Metrics   ... View more

You can actually go "agentless" for the most part with database agents, by installing 1 DB agent on your Controller or one of your other servers and just have them poll the database servers with an authenticated account with the correct permissions. This way you can have a machine agent on the database if needed, and it shouldn't intefere with your DB collector. Depending on how you set it up, you might have to go to two different places in order to get all the metrics, but they should be there.   Permissions and all that are in the documentation: https://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO45/Configure+Oracle+Collectors ... View more