Instana announces new capabilities
Wednesday, November 6, 2019 by Austin Harris
Instana announced new capabilities that make it the only application management solution that can jump right into a log analysis tool with all context of the application and component under investigation.
“IT teams responsible for deploying and maintaining today’s mission critical applications must react quickly, especially when attacking service issues,&...
AIOps+ platform updates
Monday, February 4, 2019 by Richard Harris
FixStream, a pioneer in AIOps+ solutions for Autonomous IT Operations, introduced an advanced version of its product, the AIOps+ platform to quickly detect, predict and resolve business issues across an enterprise’s entire hybrid IT environment.
FixStream’s new 9.0 release offers advancements in event and ticket intelligence, correlation of bus...
Record growth in microservices
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, LightStep announced the findings of their Global Microservices Trends report, based on an independent research study conducted by Dimensional Research that was commissioned by LightStep.Key findings in the research are:Record Growth of Microservices92 percent of respondents said they increased their number of microservices in the last year.9...
Automic intelligent automation platform released
Friday, October 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
Automic, one of CA Enterprises most recent acquisitions, recently announced its first major product release under the CA name, and that Automic has been named the flagship piece of CA’s new Intelligent Automation platform. The move demonstrated CA’s investment in the automation market, a market said to have a potential to grow to $10B by 2020. This is Automic’s first pl...
ZeroTurnaround launches XRebel Hub performance monitoring tool
Friday, September 22, 2017 by Austin Harris
ZeroTurnaround has launched XRebel Hub, an Application Performance Management (APM) tool built for the development and testing phases of app development. Traditional APM tools focus on the production phase and are often geared to the operations function. The problem with relying solely on this traditional approach is that 80 percent of performance issues make it to prod...
Datadog APM released
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 by Austin Harris
Datadog has announced the general availability of Datadog APM (Application Performance Monitoring). This new feature extends the company’s existing infrastructure monitoring platform to now enable development and operations (DevOps) teams to quickly troubleshoot issues in complex, distributed applications that run across hybrid clouds and employ microservices, container...
A CloudBased App's Performance Depends on More Than the Code
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
Slow application performance, errors and outages are the bane of a development team’s day. When such issues occur, developers have traditionally combed through their code, often with the aid of an Application Performance Monitoring(APM) tool, to identify the bug causing the problem. Yet, for applications running on cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), de...
Neotys Offers New Platform for Testing and Monitoring the Full Application Lifecycle
Sunday, January 31, 2016 by Richard Harris
Neotys is introducing a new Continuous Performance Validation (CPV) platform for load testing and performance monitoring for the application lifecycle. The new solution leverages automated and collaborative tooling to provide the ability to conduct testing as much as needed throughout the software lifecycle including application component testing (pre-GUI API or Web Se...
Pre Production App Monitoring as a Quality Assurance Tool
Friday, April 24, 2015 by Jon Spencer
With the increasing complexity of mobile/web applications and their service-oriented architectures, the elevation of user expectations to levels that were unimaginable only a few years ago, software development teams are more challenged than ever before. Budgets and release cycles are tight, and everyone from finance managers to marketing and sales staff want high-quali...
Why Just Monitoring Your Server Is Not Enough
Monday, February 16, 2015 by Trevor Parsons
Server monitoring tools have traditionally been one of the first building blocks in any IT infrastructure. Viewed as the control panel for infrastructure effectiveness, much like the speedometer and temperature gauges on your car, these tools capture resource usage information from your OS performance API or performance counters such as CPU, Disk, Memory, Network at a s...
Logentries Now Offers New Relic Integration for Log Level, Client to Server Transaction Tracing
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Logentries offers a log management and analytics service built for the cloud and now is providing New Relic integration that provides real-time visibility into log level transactions from client-side devices - such as mobile apps or web browsers - to traditional application and backend servers. The new integration enables users to drill down from an appli...
AppNeta Provides New Performance Dashboard for Managing All Five Major Web Development Platforms Java, .NET, PHP, Python and Ruby
Monday, June 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
AppNeta has introduced its User Satisfaction Dashboard as part of its application performance management (APM) solution. The SaaS-based APM tool delivers a view of overall web application performance by integrating and scoring application performance across the entire application transaction. By aggregating performance results from the application code, real-user monito...