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The latest News and Information on Application Performance Monitoring and related technologies.

Expert Guide to Redis Monitoring

Redis is an open source. in-memory data structure store with blazing performance that’s used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis is licensed under BSD (Berkeley Source Distribution), which means it can be used for free with some minimum use restrictions. It supports a good number of abstract data structures, such as strings, maps, lists, and so on. Redis, which is used as a database to store data, is fast in performance.

Monitoring Node.js Application With AppOptics on DigitalOcean - Better Together

Many teams take advantage of the convenience of deploying their apps to the platform as a service (PaaS) providers such as DigitalOcean. Cloud solutions like this are an easy way for teams to deploy and scale their applications without worrying about the details. However, even in these managed environments, poorly written apps can cause issues. If your pages load too slowly, users will likely leave your site and look for another.

APM Integrated Experience

We’ve been listening to our customers. Whether you’re a SolarWinds® Loggly®, SolarWinds AppOptics™, or SolarWinds Pingdom® user, we’ve been working hard to make your life easier. We’re happy to announce a brand-new experience designed to bring together real user monitoring, synthetic transactions, metrics, traces, and logs in a single platform, making it faster and easier to identify, triage, and troubleshoot application issues.

What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions can help your business enhance its IT and grow its operations. To understand why, let’s answer some of the key questions surrounding APM. APM involves the use of technologies and tools to maintain consistent application availability, performance, and response times. So, your business can use APM solutions to monitor apps across its operations.

Monitoring Node.js Health and CPU Usage

What’s the most wanted feature for a Node.js application? Well, high performance with no downtime is one of the top answers for this question. But how do you accomplish this? Monitoring is key to gain a better understanding of the health of your application. For example, by implementing monitoring, you can detect problems, such as a memory leak or long-running processes that block the Node.js event loop.

Top 10 Characteristics of an Enterprise-Class IT Application and Infrastructure Monitoring Tool

‘Enterprise class’ is a buzzword that refers to applications that are designed to be robust, flexible, and scalable for deployment by a large organization. There are no firm standards for what makes an application or platform enterprise class, but enterprise-class applications are generally: When any product is developed, there are assumptions made. These assumptions dictate how widely the tool can be deployed and what constraints it has during usage.

Application Performance Monitoring: Why is it important for your organization?

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) refers to monitoring or managing the performance of your code, application dependencies, transaction times, & overall user experiences. It is an important technology that ensures the computer application programs are performing as expected. The ultimate goal of performance monitoring is to supply end users with a top quality end-user experience.

APM Tools: Top Real-World Use Cases

Application performance monitoring (APM) is an important monitoring practice used in tech organizations today, but it hasn’t always been this way. Until somewhat recently, the concept was seen by many as an expensive luxury. No longer, APM is an absolute requirement to keep today’s applications healthy and performant. “APM tool” was a phrase likely to raise many an eyebrow.

Solve issues faster with customer experience monitoring

Thousands of developers rely on Raygun to help them deliver great customer experiences every day. Software teams can spend 75% of their time debugging errors and performance problems — mostly in the manual process of finding and diagnosing them. Every busy developer should be able to reach the answers they need quickly — not just where things went wrong but which customers were impacted by errors, crashes, and performance issues.