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9 Best Practices For Salesforce Performance Monitoring

Salesforce influences the productivity of entire organizations. That is why monitoring your Salesforce performance in a timely and professional manner is imperative. With GermainAPM’s help, your Salesforce response times and behaviors can be proactively monitored in many ways. Many enterprises depend on the mission-critical capabilities of Salesforce. One minute of downtime in your Salesforce app can cost you hefty.

7 best session replay tools for analyzing user behavior

How well your website works, and your visitor’s experience can make or break your business if you run your business digitally. Subsequently, your lead generation and eventually your sales can be negatively affected by bad user experiences. Almost every website owner has asked himself, are visitors enjoying using their website, store and other web applications? Do they find the information they anticipated? Or are they finding the interface friendly enough?

Log4j vulnerability highlights the value of a combined security and observability approach

When we launched AppDynamics with Cisco Secure Application in early 2021, it was the industry’s first integrated application performance management (APM) and runtime application security offering. We made a bold bet that consolidated monitoring would become increasingly important and provide significant benefits such as improved security capabilities and reduced costs. It was the right bet.

Server Uptime Monitoring: What, Why, and How?

In an earlier blog post, we had discussed how server performance monitoring is not just about monitoring CPU, memory, and disk resources anymore. There is more to server performance monitoring than just three resources or metrics. That blog post covered several key performance indicators (KPIs) that IT teams must track to ensure that their servers are performing well. In this blog post, we focus on another KPI – server uptime.

Azure AD Monitoring Tips and Strategies

The Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) service and an identity provider (IdP). Azure AD is the backbone for authentication in Microsoft 365 and for thousands of cloud-based SaaS applications. Azure AD provides several features for your organization and one of the features is the Microsoft Identity Platform.

Synthetic testing: A definition and how it compares to Real User Monitoring

Performance monitoring is critical for a healthy software application. If you don’t have synthetic testing or real user monitoring in place, opportunities for performance optimizations are slipping through the cracks. With the guidance of a monitoring tool, on the other hand, you could be fixing problems such as slow-loading pages within the hour. The two main types of application monitoring are Real User Monitoring (RUM) and synthetic testing (or synthetic monitoring).

Datadog on Profiling in Production

Depending on your chosen programming language and stack, you may have never used a profiler in production. The very idea of using a profiler in production for a web service may seem unrealistic, due to the amount of overhead involved. After all, aren’t profilers extremely computationally expensive to run? Despite a reputation for being computationally expensive, many programming languages have examples of profilers built to run in production. The importance of seeing how your application behaves in production is critically important to understanding how it performs in the real world.