Application performance management (APM) is the monitoring and management of performance and availability of software applications. APM strives to diagnose application performance problems to maintain an expected service level.
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RTView offers a middleware monitoring solution. This solution brings much-needed observability to complex technology stacks.
Dynatrace differentiates its APM solution through ease of deployment. As IT environments continue to become more complex, leading enterprise software vendors will improve their solutions to be more plug-and-play.
The best and the cheapest! User, Process and Technology (software, hardware, network) uptime and performance monitoring, issue root-cause analysis (down to the transaction, code, sql, component, etc), and unlimited Automation platform (Alert, auto-resolution, auto-data update, auto-restart of technology, synthetic clicks, python/shell/perl...script execution, sql execution, etc), real-time, 24x7 and our help for free.
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Stackify APM+ moves beyond traditional APM solutions and gives you immediate, real-time code-level visibility allowing developers to easily identity top performance offenders and fix issues before they impact the business performance or customer satisfaction.
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Solarwinds AppOptics provides real-time visibility into any application by collecting both high-fidelity metrics and detailed transaction traces.
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IBM® Cloud App Management (APM) is an IT service management software designed to efficiently monitor, analyze and manage cloud, on-premises and hybrid applications and IT infrastructure. IBM's application performance management solutions can identify bottlenecks and quickly detect the root cause of your application performance problems.
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Dynatrace application performance management monitors web scale application environments down to each individual transaction—with no gaps or blind spots—including front end, application performance, infrastructure, containers, and cloud.
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Get rich performance monitoring, powerful alerting, and easy-to-consume dashboards to help ensure your applications are available and performing as you expect. Quickly see if you have a problem, how many customers are affected, and perform a root cause analysis to find and fix the issue.
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Radware's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) allows you to detect application performance issues – before your customer does. Application Performance Monitoring ensures Web application performance meets your customer's expectations and consistently delivers their business SLA.
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Splunk ITSI provides a view of the high-level health and performance of applications and services. It also lets you dive deeper in investigations to helps predict outages and find the root cause of a problem faster. With machine learning capabilities, you can detect patterns to help baseline and automatically adapt behaviors for better monitoring and incident prediction.
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Micro Focus APM solutions provide a 360° view to ensure the performance of desktop, web, and mobile apps in your on-premise, cloud, or hybrid environments. Micro Focus Application Performance Management (APM) Solutions allow you to isolate problems real-time for all of your applications whether on-premise, cloud, or mobile.
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New Relic’s SaaS-based Application Performance Monitoring helps you build, deploy, and maintain great web software.
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AppDynamics APM automatically discovers, maps, and visualizes your critical customer journeys through each application service and infrastructure dependency. Teams have a single source of truth to focus on end-to-end performance in the context of the customer experience, instead of monitoring individual services.
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CA Technologies Application Performance Management solution is a performance monitoring tools you need to get ahead of customer expectations and create apps that not only meet, but exceed the expectations of your users. It’s the comprehensive visibility and control you need to find and fix performance issues, consistently optimize your apps and make customers happy.
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The VirtualWisdom App-centric Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) platform provides real-time and historical insights into the performance, availability, health and utilization of your data center infrastructure–across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
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Monitor any application, service, or request with Instana Application Performance Monitoring.
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Metricly is a SaaS-based adaptive monitoring solution that helps organizations monitor cloud services, applications, infrastructure, and public cloud costs.
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Quest Foglight, is a complete application and website monitoring platform that specializes in risk assessment, diagnostics, user management and server monitoring in order to ensure your online business infrastructure is secure. Foglight Hybrid Data Center Performance Management optimizes the configuration, performance and utilization of your cloud, hypervisors, virtual machines (VMs) & storage to gain visibility across your entire hybrid infrastructure The Quest Foglight software minimizes the risk of potential downtime.
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Riverbed SteelCentral Application Performance Management (APM) solutions give you the end-to-end visibility and actionable insights to deliver high-performing apps for your end users. But to quickly realize the benefits of your APM solutions, you need a comprehensive primer and expert guidance on how to quickly operationalize the solutions within your environment.
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TrueSight AppVisibility is an APM solution, powered by AIOps and designed for IT operations, that correlates application performance, digital experience and infrastructure resources to continuously improve services that depend on multi-cloud infrastructure.. TrueSight App Visibility Manager goes beyond application performance monitoring to provide deep insight into your users' experience. In addition to tracking and measuring user activity at the individual or location level – on premises or off – it filters data to ensure you have the information you need to keep users happy and applications healthy, without the unnecessary noise.
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Apica Synthetic proactively monitor your websites, applications and APIs around the clock and identify availability and performance issues before they affect your customers.
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AWith its front end robot technology, AppsWatch automates monitoring of all your applications in any environment. AppsWatch runs even when real users are not around. Alerts you of problems before users have a chance notice them.
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Get real-time visibility, predictive alerting, sub-second analytics and resolve the right problem, right now before anyone notices with Nastel AutoPilot M6.
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Blackfire empowers all developers and IT/Ops to continuously verify and improve their app’s performance, throughout its lifecycle, by getting the right information at the right moment.
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CitraTest APM® is an all encompassing APM solution that addresses the needs of End-to-End Response Time Monitoring, Availability Monitoring, and SLA Enforcement with full support for EVERY application.
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IDERA empowers database and IT professionals to monitor & manage data center environments with complete confidence. For deep-dive monitoring of off-the-shelf application stacks, such as SAP and PeopleSoft, the Precise approach is optimal.
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RTView Enterprise Monitor is an easy-to-use, easy-to-implement application monitoring solution designed to provide an end-to-end view of the health state for your most business-critical applications and the software and hardware that support them, including middleware, database, virtual machines, host and network.
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RTView offers a middleware monitoring solution. This solution brings much-needed observability to complex technology stacks.
Dynatrace differentiates its APM solution through ease of deployment. As IT environments continue to become more complex, leading enterprise software vendors will improve their solutions to be more plug-and-play.
APM vendor Dynatrace is offering a service to help its customers improve their SDLC. This offering aligns with an overall shift in the IT marketplace.
Dynatrace offers digital business analytics in addition to full stack end-to-end monitoring. The tool’s capabilities work to bridge the gap between infrastructure & operations teams and the business side of the house.
Stackify has changed the pricing model for its APM tool, Retrace. This change in pricing is in line with usage-based shifts in technology along with changing architectures.
Announced on December 31, 2019, BeyondTrust named Tenable as the successor to its Vulnerability Management suite.
Crosscode is an application analysis and dependency-mapping tool. This kind of tool will become increasingly prevalent as an important component of DevOps toolchains.
IBM reported Q3 2019 revenue and earnings that failed to meet analyst revenue expectations. With a revenue of $18.03 billion, versus an expected $18.76 billion, it missed the target for the twenty-seventh time under CEO Ginny Rommety.
Dynatrace has filed for an IPO. IT professionals making APM purchasing decisions may benefit from the increased transparency when Dynatrace goes public.
Application performance management (APM) is hard, but necessary. The vendor space is expanding because it addresses a real need.
Application portfolio management (APM) is typically characterized as a subset of application lifecycle management (ALM). However, we see this capability included more often in enterprise architecture tools than in ALM software.
The immense sprawl of products and product versions across the organization complicates manual inventory collection practices. Automated discovery and inventory tools help alleviate this challenge, but they do not negate the importance of end user and stakeholder collaboration and application capability mapping.