The Live Preview option in a Business Transaction Discovery Session in AppDynamics allows a user to verify the effectiveness of newly configured Transaction Discovery Rules. This feature provides real-time feedback on how these rules identify and categorize business transactions, enabling users to adjust and fine-tune the rules to ensure accurate and meaningful transaction monitoring.
References:
AppDynamics documentation on Business Transaction Management: Includes information on Business Transaction Discovery Sessions and the use of Live Preview to validate Transaction Discovery Rules.

Information Points in AppDynamics are designed to collect custom metrics that are specific to the business or code aspects of an application. They can capture Business Metric Data, which pertains to the performance metrics that directly impact business processes, and Code Metric Data, which relates to the performance of specific methods or segments of code within the application. This allows for targeted monitoring and analysis of areas significant to the business's objectives and technical performance.
References:
AppDynamics documentation on Information Points: Provides details on how to set up Information Points to collect custom business and code metrics for in-depth performance analysis.

The performance pattern outside of business hours on 6/16/18 that would be of most interest to a Performance Analyst is the elevated response time, as indicated on 6/19/18. This is because it shows a significant spike in response time, which could indicate a performance issue that needs to be addressed. Anomalies in response time can often be more indicative of underlying problems than changes in call volume, especially when they occur outside of expected peak periods.
References:
AppDynamics documentation on Transaction Score:
https://docs.appdynamics.com/latest/en/application-monitoring/application-dashboard/transaction-score

The Transaction Score tab within the Application Dashboard is designed to display performance trends across various metrics including Snapshots, Average Response Time, and Events. It gives a comprehensive view of the transaction performance, providing a score that reflects the health and reliability of transactions over time.
References:
AppDynamics documentation on Application Dashboard:

In AppDynamics Application Performance Management (APM), two types of Data Collectors are SQL data collectors and Method invocation data collectors. SQL data collectors capture and record detailed information about SQL queries executed by the application, helping identify slow or inefficient database operations.
Method invocation data collectors capture information about specific method calls within the application code, including execution times and parameters, providing deep insights into code-level performance.
References:
AppDynamics documentation on Data Collectors: Provides detailed information on configuring SQL and Method invocation data collectors for in-depth application monitoring.