Use Cases

Apica Use Cases enable specific business value using your existing license model for standard, advanced, and desktop application checks. The following use cases are achieveable through the use of Apica Synthetic Monitoring Platform:

Use Case Title	Description and Readiness	Products Used
API Tests	Basic calls to APIs - single or multiple object grabs or posts	API Tools - Postman/URL-Xi
DNS Checks and Service changes (Super GSLB)	Ability to determine health of DNS infrastructure and modify downstream DNS services via API for functions such as GSLB modifications based on health of the system	Built-in DNS
User-Journey Checks (Full-Page Renders)	Ability to render full browser pages, including all URLs and select various objects to render and select in the process (this is our biggest seller)	Browser Checks and Selenium
Network Performance Monitoring (NPM)	Early stages - we could use SSH checks to query actual network elements, ICMP to check health and latency, etc… no way today to look at flow data, but we have the ability to be a probe and collect TCPDUMPs.	ZT
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)	Application Performance Monitoring (APM)	ZT
Microsoft 365	Initial Phase with guided setup to enable full M365 monitoring through the usage of DAC checks. No GUI changes required in the initial phase.	DAC
Mobile Device Emulation	The ability to use DAC to emulate a smart device on screen and tap through various scenarios and offer functions such as SMS MFA. Can control all aspects of an application via a Windows Server environment.	DAC
Real Mobile Device Tests	Ability to use DAC or ZT to control actual mobile devices and appliances to simulate user behaviors	DAC and ZT
Mobile Device Replays	Mobile Device Replays	DAC and ZT
Robotic Process Automations (RPA)	Robotic Process Automations (RPA)
SSH Command Checks	SSH Command Checks
Load-Testing	Load-Testing
Database Testing and Monitoring	Querying performance across databases for MQ, JDBC, MongoDB, MySQL, SQL, IBM DB2, Oracle. Could be used to test across infrastructure types (migrations and performance parity), oscillate DB size ($ savings),	ZT
Functional Testing	Functional Testing
Continuous Security Testing	Continuous Security Testing
Multi-Infrastructure Testing	Multi-Infrastructure Testing
IoT Device Testing	IoT Device Testing
IoT Monitoring	IoT Monitoring
VOD Streaming	VOD Streaming
Live Streaming	Live Streaming
Conference Call Monitoring	Conference Call Monitoring
Telemetry Aggregator	Telemetry Aggregator
Application Cost Analysis	Application Cost Analysis
Infrastructure Cost Analysis	Infrastructure Cost Analysis
Non-Functional Testing	Non-Functional Testing
Script Workflow Automation	Ability to use a script for multiple checks for various environment variables, such as, lower environments, hosts, apps, etc. We can do this by using ZT dictionary.	ZT
Continuous Integration/Delivery	Continuous Integration/Delivery
Citrix Workspace	Citrix Workspace
Mainframes	Mainframes
Orchestration Integration	Orchestration Integration
Spider website nightly	Spider (crawl) website nightly to catalogue docs & create checks
PDF or Report CheckSum	PDF or Report CheckSum	ZT
Files Upload	Files Upload	ZT
SFTP/FTP	SFTP/FTP	ZT
SSH - SCP	SSH - SCP	ZT/Scripted Checks
Net New Workflow Automation	Net New Workflow Automation	ZT
Alert/Incident Workflow Automation	Alert/Incident Workflow Automation	ZT
HTTP2	HTTP2	ZT/Selenium/URLv2
GWT Serialization & Deserialization	GWT Serialization & Deserialization	ZT
Web service security SOAP messages	Sign and Encrypt Plugin for Request Content. Decrypt and Content Verify Plugin for Response Content	ZT
Message Queue Plugin for sending Payloads to the Queue	Message Queue Plugin for sending Payloads to the Queue	ZT
Credentials Manager	Retrieve encrypted username/password from API then plugin will decrypt data to be used in the proxysniffer script. To store username/password to server run plugin from command line and pass necessary parameters. Batch process encrypting/updating password. BEFORE USING: Replace the value for "KEY" with some password key and "AUTH_TICKET_PROD" with customer's own API auth_ticket.	ZT
ActiveMQ Support	ActiveMQ Support	ZT
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)	MFA	ZT