Why APM is Crucial for Cloud-Based Environments
For IT pros, the incessant chatter regarding cloud and distributed environments is nothing new. What we’ve been seeing lately (especially for those who read this blog regularly) is a transition from conceptual, nebulous, marketing driven cloud to cloud in action. Organizations are now ready to make the leap to distributed environments and are expecting their IT teams, as always, to handle the change without interruption. A recent report discusses the framework top performers are using. Top performers in this area follow a PACE (Pressures, Actions, Capabilities, Enablers) framework. They...
read more2012 Trends: Analytics Comes to IT
If you want to see a good list of monitoring trends, check out the 12 Predictions for 2012 on APM Digest. One that stuck out for me was # 3: Breakout Year for Predicitve Analytics because I’ve always thought there was a connection between business analytics and application performance monitoring. In this instance, the analytics don’t involve business or web analytics as you might think of them. Instead, they involve using analytics tools, which have been used for business knowledge in the past, to build a better understanding of your systems and applications and the interdepencies...
read more2012 Trends: Monitoring Gets More Complicated
Today, I received the Forrester Report, Market Overview: Application Performance Management, Q4 2011 by Jean-Pierre Garbani. It’s worthwhile read for anyone interested in Applications Performance Management and I’ll be writing a few posts about it in the coming weeks. One thing stuck out at me right away was the growing complexity of the data center and what that meant to IT Ops. Right up front in the Executive Summary Garbani explained that it used to be enough to simply monitor those spots you knew to be the weakest links in the delivery chain, but he feels that is not enough...
read moreWhat Applications Aren’t You Monitoring?
Every company has a certain number of mission critical applications they are monitoring, but what about the ones you aren’t monitoring? I came across this article the other day called Why is Application Performance Monitoring so Screwed Up and given it’s a space I watch, a title like this got my attention, but what really got me going was author Bernd Harzog’s opening volley: How many applications does your company have that warrant management on an availability, response time, and integrity of service basis? For how many of those applications do you have a functional...
read moreGoogle Real-time Analytics and Monitoring
Last week, Google introduced a new feature to its Google Analytics product called Real-Time analytics. That means instead of looking at what happened in the rear view and then reacting, you can see what traffic is flowing to your web site in real time. This is significant for monitoring for a number reasons. First of all web site analytics and monitoring are at least related (cousins for sure). They might not be measuring performance in a real sense, but these analytics give you real insight into the people coming to visit your web site, how they got there, what path they take through your...
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