The short answer
The registry records Cisco AppDynamics Application Performance Monitoring as a possible interpretation of APPDYNAMICS *PERFORMANCE. This descriptor-to-company association has not passed claim-level evidence review. Compare the exact line, amount and posted status with your own receipt or account activity; the name alone cannot confirm the merchant or whether you authorized the payment.
What do the parts of APPDYNAMICS *PERFORMANCE mean?
- APPDYNAMICS * PERFORMANCE
- Before the asterisk, "APPDYNAMICS" usually names the platform or parent company. After it, "PERFORMANCE" usually names the product, store or order. How descriptors work →
The notes below are unreviewed registry explanations, not confirmation of merchant identity, authorization or current policy. Claim-level source review is pending for this entry.
Recognizing AppDynamics Enterprise Billing
Unreviewed registry note: APPDYNAMICS *PERFORMANCE is a billing descriptor from Cisco Systems, Inc. — specifically its AppDynamics division — for enterprise application performance monitoring software. Cisco AppDynamics provides full-stack observability: it tracks response times, error rates, and infrastructure health across web applications, microservices, databases, and cloud environments. If your company runs AppDynamics agents on production servers, this charge is the licensing cost for that monitoring platform. Amounts typically range from $1,500 to well over $18,000 depending on how many monitored hosts, agent units, or CPU cores are under contract.
Unreviewed registry note: This charge appears most commonly when an annual enterprise license installment is due, when automated agent counts expand during a cloud scaling event, or when a Cisco Enterprise Agreement renewal processes. AppDynamics licenses are sold per agent — each application server host or container instance that runs an APM agent counts toward your total. End-user monitoring (EUM) and synthetic testing modules are billed separately and can trigger their own line items. Overage fees hit when monitored agent counts exceed what was originally contracted.
- Unreviewed registry note: Annual enterprise subscription installment for AppDynamics APM platform
- Unreviewed registry note: Automated agent license expansions deployed across cloud clusters
- Unreviewed registry note: End-user monitoring (EUM) synthetic or real user traffic overage
- Unreviewed registry note: Cisco Enterprise Agreement software renewal package
- Unreviewed registry note: Sign in to your AppDynamics Controller dashboard and open Settings > License to view assigned agents.
- Unreviewed registry note: Check the billing amount against your Cisco / AppDynamics Master Agreement.
Who handles AppDynamics billing and invoice support?
Unreviewed registry note: Submit a case via the Cisco AppDynamics support portal at appdynamics.com/support or contact your Cisco account team.
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Sources and evidence
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- Cisco End User License Agreement https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/legal/cloud-and-software/end_user_license_agreement.html
- AppDynamics Support Overview https://www.appdynamics.com/support
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