Secure performance monitoring of remote application servers

A computing device comprising:

• a memory;
• a processor device coupled to the memory to:
• establish, by a first application server, that communications with a plurality of remote application servers utilize an encrypted communication protocol;
• iteratively, over a period of time, send each respective remote application server of the plurality of remote application servers an encrypted message requesting performance metric information of the respective remote application server using the encrypted communication protocol;
• receive, over the period of time, encrypted requested performance metric information;
• and
• effect storage of the requested performance metric information in a storage device.

A computer program product for obtaining performance metric information securely, the computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and including instructions to cause a processor device to carry out steps of:

• establishing, by a first application server, that communications with a plurality of remote application servers utilize an encrypted communication protocol;
• iteratively, over a period of time, sending each respective remote application server of the plurality of remote application servers an encrypted message requesting performance metric information of the respective remote application server using the encrypted communication protocol;
• receiving, over the period of time, encrypted requested performance metric information;
• and
• effecting storage of the requested performance metric information in a storage device.