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Application Performance Management

Application Performance Management

By checking your applications for performance and stability, you not only ensure a successful next release, but also save valuable time that would otherwise be needed for lengthy post-release troubleshooting.

By checking your applications for performance and stability, you not only ensure a successful next release, but also save valuable time that would otherwise be needed for lengthy post-release troubleshooting.

Application Performance Management is a comprehensive solution for analyzing and controlling the performance of your applications. Thanks to development-accompanying tests, potential errors or bottlenecks can be detected at an early stage, even before they occur during the release process

With the support of accompio, you can ensure that your software meets the highest quality standards and that your users are always satisfied.

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Application Performance Management from accompio

  • Solution for analyzing and controlling the performance of applications

  • Successful release by testing performance and stability

  • Highest quality standards in applications for best user satisfaction

  • Measurement of performance standards and identification of (performance) problems

We check your applications for performance and stability

Application Performance Management at a glance

Application Performance Management (APM) helps organizations ensure that their critical applications meet established expectations for performance, availability and user experience. By continuously measuring application performance, APM can alert administrators in a timely manner when performance standards are not being met. In addition, APM provides insight into the root causes of performance issues and often enables automatic remediation of these issues before they negatively impact users or the organization.

While APM primarily stands for Application Performance Monitoring, the term is often used interchangeably. In fact, application performance monitoring is an important component of application performance management, as continuous monitoring of performance is necessary to manage it effectively. In today’s world, however, APM solutions are evolving and increasingly integrating observability technologies that are better suited for collecting and analyzing performance data in modern, distributed cloud applications.

What is an APM solution?

An APM solution, short for Application Performance Management, is software that performs several critical application monitoring functions. These include front-end monitoring, which includes both real user monitoring (RUM) and synthetic monitoring to proactively improve the user experience and detect problems before they occur. Furthermore, an APM solution includes application discovery, tracing and diagnostics (ADTD), which creates a service map of all microservices of an application and enables distributed tracing.

APM tools also provide comprehensive analysis of performance data over time. These analytics enable developers, site reliability engineers (SREs) and business owners to determine whether an application is meeting its service level objectives (SLOs) and keep an eye on operations as the environment changes. Using root cause analysis and logical anomaly detection, supported by artificial intelligence and machine learning, APM solutions can predict why performance is likely to degrade. APM tools also analyze application logs to pinpoint trouble spots and graphically display this information in a meaningful dashboard.

Application Performance Monitoring

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) refers to the deployment of agents across the entire application environment and supporting infrastructure to regularly monitor performance and performance-related metrics. Various types of monitoring are carried out:

Digital experience

Captures performance metrics such as load time, response time and downtime from the user interface on the end-user device. This includes monitoring real users as well as synthetic tests for performance testing.

Application

The execution of automated tests is generally less time-consuming and cost-intensive. Although higher costs are incurred for the creation of test cases at the start of automation, these are amortized over time through repeated executions.

Database

Queries the performance of SQL queries or procedures to optimize database performance.

Availability

Monitors the actual availability of application and hardware components.

Digital experience

Captures performance metrics such as load time, response time and downtime from the user interface on the end-user device. This includes monitoring real users as well as synthetic tests for performance testing.

Application

The execution of automated tests is generally less time-consuming and cost-intensive. Although higher costs are incurred for the creation of test cases at the start of automation, these are amortized over time through repeated executions.

Database

Queries the performance of SQL queries or procedures to optimize database performance.

Availability

Monitors the actual availability of application and hardware components.

APM solutions typically provide a centralized dashboard for aggregating and analyzing performance metrics, alerting administrators to deviations from baselines and providing contextual information for troubleshooting.

Load and performance tests

Load and performance tests play a decisive role in ensuring high application quality and sustainable user satisfaction. These tests provide information about the performance of your applications and system landscape, particularly with regard to response time behavior.

It is advisable to include performance tests in the development process of your application at an early stage, as the behavior of your system under load has a significant influence on user behavior. By carrying out performance tests at an early stage, potential deviations and risks can be identified, enabling a prompt response and troubleshooting.

Load tests and stress tests are particularly important here. Load tests ensure a controlled check of the load capacity as well as reliable and high-performance availability of your application. Stress tests, on the other hand, make it possible to go beyond the load limits and simulate maximum load scenarios in order to observe the recovery behavior and analyze possible effects.

Why application performance management is beneficial for companies

Application Performance Management (APM) offers companies numerous advantages that make it an indispensable tool:

  • Less service degradation and SLO violations: APM shortens the Mean-Time-To-Resolution (MTTR) of problems and helps to ensure that Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are met even when problems occur. Fast troubleshooting and restoration of system functionality minimizes service outages and prevents future problems.

  • More sales: The availability of applications is crucial for customer satisfaction and ultimately for sales. APM helps to keep applications available and improve load times, which in turn reduces customer frustration and increases revenue.

  • Increased speed and competitiveness: Through application optimization, APM increases the speed and agility of companies, enabling them to keep pace with the ever-changing demands of the industry. Improved speed and flexibility give companies a competitive advantage.

  • Better digital experience and higher customer satisfaction: Fast application response times contribute to a better digital experience and increase customer satisfaction. APM helps to evaluate the performance of applications and ensure that they meet the expectations of end users.

  • Lower operating costs: APM minimizes the effort required to troubleshoot application errors and problems by providing companies with better insight into potential problems. By using APM automation tools, companies can also save on labor costs and other IT operations costs.

  • Less service degradation and SLO violations: APM shortens the Mean-Time-To-Resolution (MTTR) of problems and helps to ensure that Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are met even when problems occur. Fast troubleshooting and restoration of system functionality minimizes service outages and prevents future problems.

  • More sales: The availability of applications is crucial for customer satisfaction and ultimately for sales. APM helps to keep applications available and improve load times, which in turn reduces customer frustration and increases revenue.

  • Increased speed and competitiveness: Through application optimization, APM increases the speed and agility of companies, enabling them to keep pace with the ever-changing demands of the industry. Improved speed and flexibility give companies a competitive advantage.

  • Better digital experience and higher customer satisfaction: Fast application response times contribute to a better digital experience and increase customer satisfaction. APM helps to evaluate the performance of applications and ensure that they meet the expectations of end users.

  • Lower operating costs: APM minimizes the effort required to troubleshoot application errors and problems by providing companies with better insight into potential problems. By using APM automation tools, companies can also save on labor costs and other IT operations costs.

accompio as your reliable partner for application performance management

accompio is your competent partner for Application Performance Management (APM), offering you comprehensive support:

Our services include analyzing your applications and systems to work with you to determine the best approach for effective application monitoring. We understand the individual requirements of your company and offer customized solutions.

Through various load and performance tests, we give you a detailed insight into the behavior of your system and show you concrete ways to increase the performance of your application. Our aim is to identify potential bottlenecks at an early stage and provide you with recommendations for optimizing your applications.

We also offer training courses for your employees to train them in the relevant application performance management tools. This enables your team to use the APM tools effectively and exploit the full potential of monitoring and optimizing your applications.

With Accompio as your partner, you not only receive first-class APM solutions, but also the necessary support and expertise to continuously improve the performance of your applications and increase your business success.

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FAQs about Application Performance Management

APM stands for Application Performance Management. It is an approach or method for monitoring, managing and optimizing the performance of applications to ensure that they meet performance, availability and user experience requirements.

An APM server is a central component of an application performance management system. It collects data on the performance of applications and their environment, analyzes this data and makes it available to users in a clear form in order to identify and resolve performance problems.

APM notifications are alerts or messages generated by an APM system to inform administrators or developers of potential performance issues or deviations from defined thresholds. These notifications allow teams to respond quickly to problems and optimize application performance.

Dynatrace is revolutionizing the monitoring of software and infrastructure by integrating customer experience and artificial intelligence (AI). With its AI-based monitoring engine, Dynatrace analyzes and evaluates all links, dependencies, data streams and response times in real time. As the leading APM solution, Dynatrace provides a comprehensive overview of the entire technology stack. Potential disruptive variables or vulnerabilities are automatically detected, saving time in troubleshooting and enabling rapid error correction.