For Software Houses, developers are as important as customers are to a retail organization – if the Developer Experience (DX / DevExp / DevEx) is poor, then work simply will not get done effectively and the best and the brightest are likely to leave for an employer who offers a better experience and hence, more productivity and job satisfaction. Long-term frustrated employees and staff attrition tend to impact product quality and lead to weaker software applications.

How AppDynamics APM, Cloud Native Application Observability and the Cisco FSO Platform can provide a full-stack, holistic view of application performance, user experience, security posture and business impact. Recently, a customer asked me how Cisco’s investment in full-stack observability benefits traditional AppDynamics customers. To answer, first, let’s take a moment to discuss how Cisco AppDynamics fits into Cisco Full-Stack Observability.

As an SRE, have you ever had a situation where you were working on an application that was written with non-standard frameworks, or you wanted to get some interesting business data from an application (number of orders processed for example) but you didn’t have access to the source code?

Just a quick blog to let you know our new whitepaper “How to Get Full-Stack Visibility for Your Java Applications” is now available, download it here: How to Get Full-Stack Visibility for Your Java Applications | White Paper (eginnovations.com).

If you are trying to figure out how to measure the performance of your application, you are in the correct place. We spend a lot of time at Stackify thinking about application performance, especially about how to monitor and improve it. In this article, we cover some of our most important application performance metrics you should be tracking.

A thin client is a simplified device that relies on a separate server (usually located remotely or in the cloud) to run programs and complete user tasks. It connects to the server through a remote network connection with very little computing happening on an individual user’s device. Because most of the computation occurs and data is stored on the server, thin clients are regarded as a secure efficient option.

Elastic APM supports OpenTelemetry on multiple levels. One easy-to understand scenario, which we previously blogged about, is the direct OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) support in APM Server. This means that you can connect any OpenTelemetry agent to an Elastic APM Server and the APM Server will happily take that data, ingest it into Elasticsearch®, and you can view that OpenTelemetry data in the APM app in Kibana®.

If you have ever worked in a kitchen, you know how tough it is to be short-staffed. Cooks have to work twice as hard and their performance suffers, leaving not-so-happy customers and comped meals for the complainers. It’s similar to how applications operate. Maybe an application is glitching out from poor coding on the backend or bogging from an influx of data coming in. In either case, the end-user application experience suffers.

I’m thrilled to announce that ServiceNow has been recognized as a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. We believe this validates our strong vision and unique ability to help customers bring unified telemetry into their existing ServiceNow® Event Management and Service Operations solutions, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), and accelerate innovation.

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open source, vendor-neutral observability framework that supplies APIs, SDKs, and tools for the instrumentation of applications and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to OTel, we are excited to announce support for the ingestion and visualization of runtime metrics from OTel-instrumented applications in Java, .NET, and Go.

Many healthcare providers are modernizing their healthcare application and infrastructure monitoring strategies. Of course, there is never a magic silver bullet and so we publish detailed case studies, with the agreement of some of our customers, for other healthcare IT administrators to gain insights into the factors that drive choices and to allow them to see if there are methodologies or tools they may find useful.

When the Gartner Magic Quadrant Report came out in 2022, we did the professional equivalent of a spit take, then cheered wildly. NOT ONLY did they include observability for the first time ever in their newly revamped 2022 Magic Quadrant for APM & Observability, but they also put us in the Leader Quadrant—our debut appearance!

We are thrilled to announce that, for the third consecutive year, Datadog has been named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for APM and Observability. We believe that this placement reflects Datadog’s continued commitment to understanding our customers’ most complex challenges and building products and services that give them the visibility they need into their applications.

Consistent performance and continuous improvement: these are the fundamentals we should aspire to in the world of cloud software delivery. We focus on ensuring our systems become more consumable, enjoyable and innovative. We seek to make customers’ lives easier and more productive through incremental achievements, and doing a better job, every day.

Today I will cover monitoring and troubleshooting AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop) connection issues and problems. Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a powerful cloud-based service that enables organizations to deploy and manage virtual desktops and applications. It provides users with a seamless remote desktop experience, allowing them to access their resources from anywhere. However, like any technology, AVD can encounter connection failures, causing frustration and disruption for users.

Digital Employee Experience (DEX) and the end user experience is growing in importance. IT teams must ensure that users are satisfied and productive. Many organizations are either moving to hybrid, remote or work-from-home set ups or consolidating end user support teams to support multiple branch offices – this means IT teams are responsible for supporting remote end users if the applications and services are slow or unresponsive.