Application Performance Monitoring
Definition
Application Performance Monitoring (Application Performance Management) – APM - assesses and monitors the performance of software applications. Being given that applications depend on many factors – network performance, network devices, servers and operating systems -, a successful application performance management has to address company-wide application dependencies, perform end-user experience monitoring in real-time, and get a true picture of outages or infrastructure changes.
User Benefits
The users should immediately benefit of the advantages provided by such a solution:
- Improved response times for applications across the WAN
- Reduced downtimes due to network and services outages
Business Impact
The APM solutions have a major business impact on the organization IT systems performance
- Monitor a wide variety of applications in an easy, cost-effective way
- Minimize the impact and duration of service outages
- Behavioral analytics allows a pro-active approach to issues
- Assess application and network performance from the user’s point of view
- In-depth analysis of the traffic at both LAN and WAN levels
- Measure performance in both optimized and non-optimized environments
- Quantify the benefits of deplying new solutions in the network by utilizing before-after analysis.
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