An Easy Way to Optimize Network Performance Monitoring
Network performance monitoring, and especially network optimization, is more of an art than a science because there are so many factors that figure into network and application responsiveness. In addition, because there is a vast amount of data traversing the network, determining the right kind of data you need to monitor (and where you should […]
Cloud Performance Management Needs Precedence Over APM in a Cloud World
A majority of today’s businesses follow a cloud-first strategy. DevOps engineers with these businesses prefer using infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) or cloud services from leading cloud services providers (CSPs). Given the rate at which the IT is evolving now, from on-prem to XaaS, the future seems a lot more […]
Choosing the Right Monitoring Tools for a Full-Stack Solution
According to the marketsandmarkets report on APM tools, the monitoring tools market is expected to grow to $4.98 billion by 2019, at a CAGR of 12.86 percent and the DevOps market would attain market size of $8,763.8 million by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 18 percent during 2017 -2023 (source: markets business insider), with more focus […]
What to Consider in a Full-Stack Monitoring Solution
In the DevOps space, there are various tools available for monitoring. When building a full-stack monitoring solution, however, selecting the right monitoring tools and designing monitoring based on IT operations’ needs is a critical decision. Design Considerations for Implementing a Full-Stack Monitoring Solution The following are some of the key design considerations while implementing full-stack […]
Benefits and Drivers of Full-Stack Monitoring
As organizations undergo digital transformations, there is increasing need to modernize the way IT operations is managed and to deliver applications faster, while at the same time delivering business value by managing applications’ availability, performance and outages in a cost-effective way. Because outages have a huge impact on revenue, there is a growing demand for […]
Splunk Acquires VictorOps: The End of the Road for Standalone IT Alert Management Tools?
This week, Splunk, the leader in machine data intelligence, announced the acquisition of IT alerting solution VictorOps for $120 million. My congratulations to the VictorOps team for building a solid product for alert management and collaboration, demonstrating a wicked sense of humor and creating some cool T-shirts. While the acquisition makes sense on many levels, […]
Riverbed Throws Down APM Gauntlet
Riverbed Technology has expanded its approach to unifying application performance management (APM) and user monitoring based on a new architecture for its SteelCentral platform, now capable of supporting tens of thousands of agents monitoring billions of transactions per day. Nik Koutsoukos, vice president of product marketing and product management for Riverbed, said auto-tuning and data […]
How APM Benefits DevOps
Thanks to the efforts of DevOps teams, rapid application and feature development are increasing the pace of innovation and having an increasing impact on business revenue. Top-performing DevOps teams are key contributors to year-over-year revenue growth of 25 percent or more, according to Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), thus increasing the value of IT. Application performance […]
Cognitive Analytics: ‘Operations Thinking’ for Development
In a recent blog post by my colleague Payal Chakravarty, “Synthetic Monitoring – the Start of the DevOps Monitoring Journey,” she discussed how developers, testers and operations staff all need to ensure their internet and intranet mobile applications and web applications are tested and operate successfully from different points of presence around the world. Continuing […]
Continuous Monitoring: The Role of DevOps and APM
To enable faster and better response to changing customer needs, enterprises are increasing their release frequency for applications. This, in turn, demands tighter alignment and collaboration than traditionally has been seen between the line of business, development and IT operations, driving the need for enhanced collaboration, automation and information transparency among these groups. To achieve […]
DevOps Matchmaking: APM + CI = A Perfect Marriage
As anyone who has ever been set up on blind dates by friends can attest, finding the right match in today’s world is a tricky feat. There’s a lot of evidence suggesting that the frantic pace of life makes such matchmaking more difficult than ever. That said, when the right set of complimentary traits exist […]
Gartner Evaluates APM Tools for DevOps
In 2009, Gartner analyst Mark Nicolett created the Critical Capabilities report. Over time, this document became paired to individual Magic Quadrant reports, and in 2014, Gartner mandated that Critical Capabilities be paired with each Magic Quadrant. Instead of graphically plotting vendors on a x- and y-axis, this research takes a deeper look at a product […]
Where will DevOps be in 10 years’ time?
What will the DevOps landscape look like in 10 years’ time? Ten years ago, Agile was seen as new and different. Now it’s part of everyday life of most developers. Will it be the same with DevOps? It’s time to clasp the crystal ball and unravel where the future is headed. First things first. DevOps […]
Stackify APM+ brings real-time application performance management to .NET
It’s a fast-paced world. Recent research from Microsoft suggests that the attention span of the average human is about 8 seconds now. That means if your application doesn’t work as expected your users will quickly move on to find a suitable replacement. An application performance management tool can be crucial to identifying and resolving application […]
Can your DevOps and APM Initiatives Increase Customer Loyalty?
I’ve reached a point where I can rate most services based on the quality of my digital interactions. So much so in fact, that any human interjection into my daily digital consciousness has become, well, almost quirky. It was with some surprise that after a prolonged period of digital engagement with my bank, I received […]
5 ways APM can solve your DevOps worries
This week at the InterOp conference in New York I had the chance to talk to a lot of IT managers transforming their organizations to adopt a DevOps culture. One of the key questions I heard repeatedly was – are there some best practices to break down the wall between Dev and Ops? How do […]