Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

May 2021

Synthetic Monitoring of Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon WorkSpaces enables you to provision virtual, cloud-based Microsoft Windows or Amazon Linux desktops for users. WorkSpaces eliminates the need to procure and deploy hardware or install complex software. You can quickly add or remove users as your needs change. Users can access their virtual desktops from multiple devices or web browsers.

Ways AI is Driving More Efficient Application Performance Monitoring

In the digital age, the speed and performance of apps and websites have a huge impact on the customer experience. To ensure a high level of quality, Application Performance Monitoring (APM) refers to the process of tracking the performance and availability of software systems. Let’s look at what Application Performance Monitoring is, how AI and machine learning are being applied to stay ahead of the competition, and several real-world use cases.

What Is APM?

Suppose your website’s sales volume per hour suddenly drops. Something’s wrong. You also notice a fluctuation in the time it takes for a customer to add the last item to their cart and finish checkout. In this time, they enter payment details, log in to a payment portal, and finalize the purchase. This takes, on average, four minutes. However, this number has suddenly spiked three-fold to 12 minutes. Something’s definitely wrong.

What Does Modern Infrastructure Include and How Do You Monitor It?

Understanding modern software applications isn’t just a question of what; it’s also a question of why. Why do we choose to use a particular technology? How does that technology serve the overall business needs? And when you have a problem, how do you figure out what’s wrong? If you’re in the position of trying to understand a modern software application for the first time, these questions can seem unanswerable.

A bittersweet anniversary for eG Innovations

For me, it’s been 20 years since eG entered the US marketplace-at that time, I was one of their first customers and have remained close to them ever since. For a company to survive two decades in an unbelievably complex and competitive performance monitoring landscape is no small feat, and I believe we are still a ‘gem’ in an often confused and fragmented marketplace.

Tip of the Month: Baseline Basics

One of AppDynamics great features is our out-of-the-box, dynamic performance baselining capabilities. Baselines learn the behavior of your application’s performance metrics over time, creating rolling averages of these metrics that helps you tune out noisy, false alerts, and conversely generate intelligent, actionable alerts. In this video, learn the basics of AppDynamics performance baselining and how to fine tune your baselines over time to receive optimal results.

The report is out: We made the Gartner Magic Quadrant again!

Enhancing digital performance has become a major priority for organizations today. Limited in-person interactions have forced people to depend on applications for their day-to-day needs. This is why an optimal digital experience has become synonymous with an organization’s ability to thrive. At ManageEngine, we are constantly focused on evolving and adapting to shifting technology trends.

Identifying Bottlenecks in DigitalOcean Before Your Customers Do

Hosting your application on DigitalOcean is an easy way for teams to deploy and scale applications without worrying about the details of the infrastructure. But what happens when your application starts causing bottlenecks and you need to track down the root cause? In this article, we’ll look at how SolarWinds® AppOptics™ works together with DigitalOcean to help you identify and fix performance issues with your application.
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A guide to single-page application performance

Single-page applications (SPAs) present a unique approach to building web applications. They help to increase development velocity and can present big performance wins when it comes to delivering a fast and seamless user experience. Monitoring SPAs for performance still comes with a unique set of challenges, like choosing the most impactful metrics, gaining visibility into app performance over time, and knowing what metrics you can get from the browser. The main benefit of using SPAs is that a page does not need to reload when the content on the page changes. However, this feature, and the fact the page does not reload, is what makes it hard to monitor SPA performance.

Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment

In a recent post we showed you how to get started with the free and open tier of Elastic Observability. Today we'll walk through what you need to do to expand your deployment so you can start gathering metrics from application performance monitoring (APM), or "tracing" data in your observability cluster, for free.

From Distributed Tracing to APM: Taking OpenTelemetry & Jaeger Up a Level

It’s no secret that Jaeger and OpenTelemetry are known and loved by the open source community — and for good reason. As part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), they offer one the most popular open source distributed tracing solutions out there as well as standardization for all telemetry data types.

Rappi Relies on Splunk Observability Cloud to Meet its 30-Minute Guarantee

Hear from Rappi’s EVP Engineering, Alejandro Comisario about how as one of the largest technology startups in Latin America, the on-demand delivery service relies on the Splunk Observability Cloud for real-time, end-to-end visibility across its complex backend system of 1k+ microservices. Since COVID-19 Rappi has grown 300%, relying on Splunk’s real-time observability to eliminate app issues for customers and stay on top of its infrastructure, applications, and overall business. With Splunk APM, Rappi now has in-depth insights into service behavior and directed troubleshooting, bringing developers’ mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) down by 90+%.

Datadog Live Containers - Kubernetes Resources

Datadog Live Containers provides multidimensional, real-time visibility into Kubernetes workloads, from Deployments and ReplicaSets down to individual Containers. Using Datadog's curated metrics, teams can track the health and performance of their Kubernetes resources in the appropriate context and surface critical information about every layer of their Cluster.

Splunk APM maximizes performance by seeing everything in your application.

Innovate faster in the cloud and elevate your user experiences with Splunk APM. Built for the cloud-native enterprise, Splunk APM uses all your data in NoSample^TM^ full fidelity for you to act on your data in seconds. Free your code and future-proof your applications today with Splunk APM. Get a free trial as part of Splunk Observability Cloud today.

10 Tools and Techniques to Test Your IT Infrastructure Resilience

Many of our customers are large enterprises with critical highly-available and secure infrastructures. This means that they spend (as do we) a lot of time proactively investigating and stress-testing systems, indeed we and many other vendors also provide tools within our products to assist in “kicking the tyres”. However small or large your enterprise is though, it’s a methodology and mindset that you can embrace with plenty of free and open-source tools out there to assist you.

Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Datadog APM provides end-to-end application monitoring, from frontend browsers to backend database queries and code profiles, so you can monitor and optimize your stack at any scale—no sampling required. APM and distributed tracing are fully integrated with the rest of Datadog, giving you rich context for troubleshooting issues in real time.