Application Performance Monitoring (APM) allows you to create an instance or multiple instances to monitor your applications. Each instance is created from an application profile and inherits the components associated with that profile. Inherited components are linked to the application profile. This means that any changes to the application profile result in the associated application instance(s) being changed as well.
For example, if you create an application instance called "My Device". This application instance is created using an application profile containing the following components:
You also decide to add a fourth component, Virtual Memory Utilization, to this instance. When the application profile is updated, the first three inherited components will be updated as well (unless you override their values). The fourth component that you added to the instance will remain unchanged. This allows you to customize your application instances to fit your needs, while providing you with basic application profiles that you can use as your building blocks for creating application instances. Learn more about APM terminology.