Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) hosted applications, and custom apps: Historically, application performance management (APM) covered only one or two of those three things. The traditional APM only applied to custom applications because it required instrumentation of the application during its development. COTS …
Based on one of the most popular SWUG™ (SolarWinds User Group) sessions of 2019, Jim Hansen, SolarWinds VP of application management products, shows you how to combine user experience monitoring with custom metrics, distributed tracing, log analytics, and log management to provide unparalleled visibility into …
As a new year approaches, we start to reflect on the year we’re leaving behind. While 2019 was the stepping stone for many technologies and changes in the industry from an APM perspective, 2020 will be the year APM takes center stage. And we …
The end of a year always raises the same question—what’s next? We imagine all the new possibilities and opportunities 2020 will bring. We get so excited about what’s ahead, we tend to forget the amount of change that happened in the year we’re leaving …
On this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, our host Patrick Hubbard, SolarWinds Head Geek, is joined by Mike Pfeiffer, a twenty-year tech industry veteran who’s worked for some of the largest technology companies in the world, including Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’ll help you make sense of …
Well, here we are. Finally, on the last post of this series. If you have not been following along, you can find the previous posts: part one, part two, part three, part four, and part five. And, if you have been following along, I hope you have found at …
So far in this series, we have covered Application Performance Monitoring. If you haven’t already, read part one, part two, part three, and part four. In the last post, we stressed the importance of mapping out all dependencies for our application. In this post, we will dig further …
Hopefully, you have been following along with this series and finding some useful bits of information. We have covered traditional APM implementations in part one, part two, and part three. In this post, we will begin looking at how implementing APM in an agile environment is much …
This is part three in this series. In part one and part two, we covered some of the basics. But in this post, we will dig into the benefits of application performance monitoring (APM), look at a few examples, and begin looking at what …
What Should We Be Monitoring? To effectively begin getting a grasp on your applications performance, you must begin mapping out all the components in the path of your application. It might be wise to begin with the server or servers where your application lives. …
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