Application Performance Management/Monitoring
The Art of Software Performance Testing
When users turn away from applications or have critical feedback, it’s often because the application is slow, hangs/freezes or, worse, it isn’t available when needed. In this era of limited—or, zero—patience for ...
The Value of APM in Application Building and Management
There are literally billions of smartphone users on the planet. Many of these users interact with apps on a daily basis. With all of the competition in the app market, developers have ...
Moogsoft Extends AI Reach into IT Operations
Moogsoft, at a Moogsoft 2018 AIOps Symposium last week, extended the reach of its IT operations analytics software out to where applications are deployed, rather than requiring data to be moved into ...
How to Use APM to Hold Cloud Providers Accountable
Here’s the challenge: Cloud providers’ service level agreements (SLAs) typically stop at the edge of their cloud, while your internal service level expectations run end to end. Measuring performance from the end ...
VMware Looks to ‘Ruthlessly’ Automate IT
VMware, at VMworld 2018 this week, advanced an ambitious campaign to automate IT management by announcing a deal to acquire CloudHealth Technologies and then previewing a Project Magna initiative that employs machine ...
Rethinking the APM Paradigm: A New Vision for Enterprise Application Monitoring
Traditional APM systems today can't measure up to tomorrow's processes IT today is inordinately complex; continually pushing the boundaries and comprehension for even the most sophisticated minds. And while modern IT is ...
Predictive QA: Why Performance is so Important in a ‘Big Data’ World
As organizations across all industries face opportunities and threats in the new digital era, they increasingly look to leverage their full power of the data they possess. Data is a treasure trove ...
Automated Management with Modern Architectures
We’ve come a long way. Just five years ago, with virtual machines (VMs) and decent monitoring, I would never have considered active automated system repairs for the average organization. There were many ...
Black Box vs. White Box Monitoring: What You Need To Know
The word monitoring possesses a meaning most people are familiar with. But what does monitoring actually break down into if you’re monitoring servers, applications and hardware? One way of answering this question ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

