2020 was a whirlwind of a year that took all of us by surprise. As we transitioned to working from home and virtual meetings, we reorganized our priorities, listened to your feedback and requirements, and worked around the clock to deliver a hassle-free monitoring experience. Here's a quick recap of the features we rolled out last year, and a brief note on our plans for 2021.

If you’re already using or planning to use AWS Lambda to run code without provisioning or managing servers, you’ll want to monitor your serverless applications with the new SolarWinds® AppOptics™ Lambda forwarder and APM agents. If you’re not using AWS Lambda, here’s what you need to know—it’s an event-driven, serverless computing platform by Amazon Web Services.

An application is not just a small part of any business. It would be wise enough to say that an application itself is a company’s business in today’s digital world. This is the reason why application performance monitoring problems are the biggest hurdle for IT Teams and the growth of any business. Customer expectations from the application’s performance are changing every day. Today, customers don’t have patience and want to use any application flawlessly.

New to application peformance management (APM)? Read a quick primer on how it works and why it's become a business necessity.

Application performance monitoring (APM) is one of the main monitoring techniques used in tech organizations. Performance is an essential attribute of applications and shouldn’t be overlooked. Our topic for today’s post can be considered both a subset and a complement of APM: SQL Server performance monitoring. We’ll start by covering some basics. We’ll define APM and why it’s so important.

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS, formerly known as Internet Information Server) is an extensible web server software created by Microsoft for use with the Windows family. IIS supports various protocols, including HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP, and NNTP. According to the most recent ranking by W3Techs, Microsoft IIS is the second most popular web server technology behind Apache.

In this information technology era, Application Performance Management (APM) monitors the performance of software applications and identifies the problems related to application performance as a service to the users. APM can be monitored or tracked using categories like load time, the response time of the application, etc. Nowadays, the applications are becoming more and more complex and distributed by using some technology in it.

Want to create a map of where your users are? With the GeoIP processor, you can easily attach the location of your users to your user metrics. Right out of the box, Kibana can map this traffic immediately by country or country subdivision: Plus, the new User Experience app for Elastic APM automatically creates maps based on monitoring data: But what if you want to take this one step further and create maps with different regions?

Exciting news for our Heroku community — Raygun Real User Monitoring (RUM) is now available on the Heroku Marketplace. Now, you can monitor performance trends, identify and diagnose performance problems, and improve your customers’ experience directly through your Heroku account.

Microsoft Azure has become the go-to cloud computing service for over 95% of Fortune 500 companies—and for good reason. Azure’s flexible and scalable cloud environment offers a secure off-premises solution for your business IT infrastructure, without the need to manage physical servers in your changing IT infrastructure. Azure allows you to manage servers, databases, applications, and more, all from one of Microsoft’s secure global cloud storage sites.

Raygun is proud to deliver tools that help software teams build software that is reliable, error-free, and fast. Last year was no exception. From more language support to better performance, we released a host of new features designed to help you provide better digital customer experiences. Here, we’ll highlight the cream of the crop — our most significant features released in 2020. We cover our full product suite, plus there’s a hint on what’s to come in 2021.

SolarWinds® AppOptics™ was designed from the ground up as a SaaS-based APM tool for cloud-native and traditional IT implementations. It provides out-of-the-box monitoring for applications and infrastructure through simple-to-install APM libraries and host agents. AppOptics makes it easy for multiple teams to quickly assess the health and performance of your applications regardless of how or where they are implemented.

Raygun’s Launch Notes are your regular round-up of all the improvements we made to Raygun last month — from significant features to performance updates.

NGINX is one of the most popular web servers. According to nginx.com, it powers more than 400 million websites. It is, however, probably even more commonly used as a reverse proxy. Since it acts as a go-between for your application and your users, it’s important to properly monitor NGINX metrics. Sometimes you may find yourself trying to understand some performance degradation of the application while an issue may come from NGINX itself.

Software developers are often only concerned about the functionality of their applications. When these applications are deployed in production, scalability and performance issues surface and application developers then have to worry about performance. Many a times, such situations warrant a complete restructuring of the application code, causing significant impact to new rollouts and current users.