Popular Comparisons Dynatrace is heavily automated which is a big advantage. You don't have to configure a lot, it installs and it runs straight away. There's direct return on investment and you can focus on more interesting stuff than always have to configure and change the configurations. Issues or problems in detection is also fully automated, which is great.
Popular Comparisons The most valuable feature is the flow map.
From the performance management side, I like everything from business transaction work to tracking. On the database side, we can get a lot of insights from the database. On the server monitoring side, it helped us a lot to find out some of the issues on the VM side because VMs were creating a little trouble for us.
Popular Comparisons The solution has a very good business event manager tool.
The event management part of TrueSight Operations Management, in my experience, is probably the best in the market. You have endless flexibility. You can build your own rules, you have the MRL language, and you can implement any kind of logic on the alerts. It may be correlation, abstraction, or executing something as a result of the alerts. You have almost the whole range of options available for event management using the available customization.
Popular Comparisons The most valuable features are logging, the extensive set of integrations, and easy jumpstart.
Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system.
Popular Comparisons Aternity's Digital Experience Management Quadrant (DEM-Q) has been a game changer for us. While knowing your own metrics is nice, if you don't know how you compare to others or what the numbers should be, then it doesn't tell you much. This solution puts that into context (if we are doing better than others or worse), which helps us prioritize where we want to focus and do improvements versus that's just how slow it's supposed to be. It's also great in communicating what we are doing and why we're doing it to our IT leadership teams, by saying, while we're pretty far behind others in certain categories, the time and changes for our prioritizations are justified.
Popular Comparisons It's also easy to implement. The implementation of Geneos is very easy and interesting. It's not complicated. It's very quick to implement. The installation is very easy. There are many topics about ITRS Geneos that explain more about the features of the function of Geneos.
Popular Comparisons The VPN is one of the solution's most valuable features for us.
The most valuable feature is application monitoring.
Popular Comparisons Azure Monitor is really just a source for Dynatrace. It's just collecting data and monitoring the environment and the infrastructure. It is fairly good at that.
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Gartner reports these four solutions as Leaders:
Cisco (AppDynamics)
Dynatrace
New Relic
Broadcom
These are the Visionaries:
Splunk (SignalFx)
Datadog
Only one Challenger:
Microsoft
Eight Niche Players:
Riverbed (Aternity)
IBM
Instana
Oracle
SolarWinds
Tingyun
ManageEngine
Micro Focus
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What is Application Performance Management (APM)?
The best application performance monitoring solutions (APM) are important for proactively monitoring and managing a software application’s performance and availability. APM’s scope further includes performance measurement for virtually any IT asset that affects end user experience. The sign of the best APM tools are that they detect application performance issues in order to adhere to an agreed-upon service level. In particular, APM is focused on app response times under various load conditions. As part of this, APM also measures the compute resources required to support a given level of load.
According to members of the IT Central Station community, the best APM vendors serve multiple masters. Developers need to understand app performance characteristics in order to ensure an optimal software experience for end users. Business managers and IT department leaders use APM data to help make decisions about infrastructure and architecture.
As applications grow more complex and interdependent, application performance monitoring users express high expectations for potential APM toolsets. Accessibility, manageability and scalability are essential. Users argue that an effective APM tool must give business stakeholders accurate, understandable data while allowing developers to dive deeply into stored data over the long term.
DevOps users want app performance management tools to measure the deep internal transactions that take place inside an application or between integrated system elements. They want APM data in real time, across multiple application tiers, with transparency along the entire application process chain. Some refer to this as “full stack tracing.”
Ideally, APM data should be measured against user experience as a key performance indicator. For example, if a bottleneck is being caused by database latency, users want to understand the root cause so they can fix it immediately. This might require an alerting based on patterns and “baselining.”
Some expect APM tools to enable the discovery of complex distributed application architecture or even microservices and containers. After all, not all application architecture is known at the outset, and it certainly changes over time. Users need APM tools to be proactive whether they are used in dev, test, QA or production environments.
The APM toolset itself should have low impact on application performance. The measurements it takes have to be easy to interpret and place into a business-friendly reporting output. For instance, IT Central Station members suggest that APM tools should offer a predefined customizable reporting capability, with high visibility and a capacity to export and report on large quantities of raw data.
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Hi,
Full disclosure I am the COO at Correlsense.
2 years ago I wrote a post just about that - "Why APM project fails" - I think it can guide you through the process of the most important aspects of APM tools.
Take a look - feel free to leave a comment:
http://www.correlsense.com/enterprise-apm-projects-fail/
Elad Katav
Speed to get data into the platform is one of our most important metrics. We NEED to know what is going on right now, not 3-4minutes ago.
Full stack end-to-end monitoring including frontend and backend server profiling, real user monitoring, synthetic monitoring and root cause deep dive analysis. Ease of use and intuitive UX.
In order to evaluate/benchmark APM solutions, We can based on the 5 dimension provided by Gartner:
1. End-user experience monitoring: the capture of data about how end-to-end application
availability, latency, execution correctness and quality appeared to the end user
2. Runtime application architecture discovery, modeling and display: the discovery of the
various software and hardware components involved in application execution, and the array of
possible paths across which those components could communicate that, together, enable that
involvement
3. User-defined transaction profiling: the tracing of events as they occur among the components
or objects as they move across the paths discovered in the second dimension, generated in
response to a user's attempt to cause the application to execute what the user regards as a
logical unit of work
4. Component deep-dive monitoring in an application context: the fine-grained monitoring of
resources consumed by and events occurring within the components discovered in the second
dimension
5. Analytics: the marshalling of a variety of techniques (including behavior learning engines,
complex-event processing (CEP) platforms, log analysis and multidimensional database
analysis) to discover meaningful and actionable patterns in the typically large datasets
generated by the first four dimensions of APM
In other side, we tried to benchmark internally some APM solutions based on the following evaluation groups:
Monitoring capabilities
Technologies and framework support
Central PMDB (Performance Management DataBase)
Integration
Service modeling and monitoring
Performance analysis and diagnostics
Alerts/event Management
Dashboard and Visualization
Setup and configuration
User experience
and we got interresting results
Most vendors have similar transaction monitoring capabilities so I look at the End user experience monitoring features to differentiate. Not only RUM (mobile and web) but also Active Monitoring through synthetics.
I Check about a Customer Experience Tool, I think the organization have to improve your client experience and if you don't have a tool to view the Improve Points this is so hard to do!!
Visibility into the application transaction and all the magic behind the curtain
Monitoring end user experience (including impact of external partners). It's the price of admission