Application usage monitoring

Now, Citrix Director helps you to monitor the usage of published applications. This feature is present on the Dashboard and contains curated charts. These charts help the IT admins or application admins to gain insight into which applications are heavily used and the extent of their usage.

Note:

This feature is available only for the platinum-licensed sites.

With this feature, an admin can view which published applications are used the most. Using this data, admins can dive deeper into the extent of usage. Admin can analyze the details of the popular apps in the last 24 hours by the following data points:

  • Total number of applications - Identifies the total number of applications in use by all the - users in the enterprise’s site.
  • Most used applications by total number of distinct users - Identifies the top 10 apps by the total number of unique users.
  • Most used applications by total number of application launches - Identifies the top 10 apps based on the total number of application launches.
  • Top peak concurrent app instances - Identifies the top 10 apps based on the highest number of simultaneous instances of each application’s usage. This information provides you the maximum demand for the applications listed.

This chart is present at the bottom of the Dashboard page. However, you can click Check it out on top of the screen to reach the chart directly.

Application monitoring

You can also click View all app usage to view the details of a single app. This link opens the Trends > Capacity Management > Hosted Application Usage page.

The chart provides a visual representation of the app usage. Also, when you hover on the graph, you get the respective absolute counts of the selected data points. When you click any data point on the chart, the Trends > Capacity Management > Hosted Application Usage page opens with the specific app name selected. This data is to depict a comparative value against all the apps present in the enterprise’s system. The absolute value of the data point is also mentioned separately in the same hover.

Application usage monitoring