Cisco Meraki Application performance monitoring capabilities

[BS]

Hey all,

I'm bit curious to know the real capability of Meraki MX devices on the Application performance monitoring and reporting capabilities, I saw the documentation where they talk about many things.

I would like to know the actual experience of users, If i got few customized applications hosted at my hub site how is it going to identify the application, hows it done? what are the different elements I can see from the report?

Does it give only response time?

[jdsilva]

I'm assuming you're taking about Meraki Insight?

https://documentation.meraki.com/MI/Meraki_Insight

For custom applications you simple specify the URL and Insight does the rest.

An couple important things to note with Insight is for custom applications it can only track HTTP/HTTPS over ports 80 and 445 respectively, and to get any data at all traffic must go through an MX appliance. So if you have internal applications you have to route that traffic through an MX somehow. 

I don't have a lot of experience with it, but in the little I have used it it seems to do a good job. There's a good amount of metrics and data in there.

[BS]

Thanks Jdsilva.

There might be specific applications coded in Java/VB/ASP with specific icons, which are not accessed as http or https using a browser, So in this case those specific apps are not identified by MX for monitoring is my understanding correct?

[jdsilva]

Correct.

[BS]

Ok, so basically the solution is monitoring the 80/443 for drops, response times etc.. not a real APM.

Capability is more like a NPM.

[murnimaduasli]

I also need it