AppDynamics is the next-generation application performance management solution that simplifies the management of complex, business-critical apps. The company believes that the best ideas and insights are generated through conversation and collaboration, which is what forced the company to empower its customers with its AppSphere community and AppDynamics eXchange platform.

AppSphere is an open community that serves as a one-stop learning destination for the AppDynamics user base as well as any IT professional who wishes to join. It enables application support teams to trade ideas, share best practices and explore new trends in application performance management.

On the other hand, AppDynamics eXchange is an ecosystem for developers to build and share custom plugins. Users of AppDynamics and third-party developers can access, create and share plugins, integrations and extensions for AppDynamics Pro. Representative plugins include integrations with IT operations tools such as PagerDuty, Splunk (News - Alert), Nagios and Boundary. It also includes cloud scaling connectors for Amazon, Rackspace, VMWare, Windows Azure and more.

"The AppDynamics customer base is passionate, as evidenced by our Net Promoter Score of 81 and the worldwide demand for our solution. Therefore, we're happy to further empower both AppDynamics customers as well as application support teams everywhere with our AppSphere community and AppDynamics X platform," said Jyoti Bansal, founder and chief executive officer of AppDynamics.

AppDynamics X APIs provide the ability to bring in custom metrics and events and leverage all of AppDynamics' data analysis and correlation abilities. Users can leverage AppDynamics X APIs to track, graph, alert and correlate metrics from any component of their application infrastructure – such as cloud platforms, databases, caches, queues and hardware – in an easy and scalable manner.

Earlier this month, the company announced the release of a self-service version of AppDynamics Pro.