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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Free Application & Server Monitoring + New Metered Pricing

We’ve updated Instrumental’s pricing to be fully metered and we replaced our 30-day trial with an entirely free Development Plan. While Instrumental’s pricing has been usage-based for a long time, this new model eliminates our plans and minimum spend requirements. With no minimum monthly spend, Instrumental is now a much better fit for smaller projects.

Amazon Kinesis: the best event queue you're not using

Instrumental receives a lot of raw data, upwards of 1,000,000 metrics per second. Because of this, we’ve always used an event queue to aggregate the data before we permanently store it. Before switching to AWS Kinesis, this aggregation was based on many processes writing to AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) with a one-at-a-time reader that would aggregate data, then push it into another SQS queue, where multiple readers would store the data in MongoDB.

AppEnsure's Service Level Driven Advantages over Citrix Insight/Director

There has been much discussion about the new parameters that Insight/Director provide with ICA Round Trip Time (RTT). The general perception is that ICA RTT provides the end-to-end response time for applications or desktops delivered. This is NOT correct. Many times the application or VDI published will access the backend infrastructure that supports the application or VDI. The back-end infrastructure response time is not part of the ICA RTT.

Be Proactive Addressing Citrix End User Complaints AppEnsure Webinar Jan17

This webinar was presented by AppEnsure's CTO - Sri Chaganty and focuses on how AppEnsure empowers you to proactively address end-user complaints in Citrix deployments. In addition, AppEnsure gives IT Operations the ability to stop the finger pointing and quickly identify the “real” root cause of performance problems by understanding the underlying infrastructure supporting XenApp and XenDesktop.

APM for Vendor Provided Business Critical Enterprise Applications

Traditionally, Application Performance Management (APM) is usually associated with solutions that instrument application code. There are two fundamental limitations with such associations. If instrumenting the code is what APM is all about, then APM is applicable only to homegrown applications for which access to code is available.