AppDynamics, a provider of application performance management (APM) for the cloud generation, released version 2.0 of its free java troubleshooting solution, AppDynamics Lite.

The new version dramatically expands the solution’s capabilities by adding visibility into JMX metrics as well as offering proactive alerting, enabling application Development and Operations teams to be notified when application performance degrades in production.

The free Java troubleshooting product, which recently surpassed over 50,000 downloads, supports IT Ops and Dev teams who need to rapidly troubleshoot and diagnose application performance problems in production. The solution installs in minutes, identifies and monitors an application’s business transactions, and gives immediate insight into common application issues such as slow SQL, stalls, errors, and slow response time.

AppDynamics Lite runs with less than 2% overhead in most production environments, yet gives complete visibility into a single Java Virtual Machine (JVM), as well as code-level details when performance problems arise. This makes the solution suitable for tomcat monitoring, jboss monitoring, weblogic monitoring, websphere monitoring, and any other application sever that runs on Java 1.5 and above.