Do you really need Application Performance Management Solutions?
With the increase of critical web-based business applications and the complexity of scattered application environments, it has become difficult to work out with the source of performance issues that can disrupt SLA guarantees and application performance. Any business enterprise needs application performance management with a test lab and team dedicated to load testing and performance testing of running applications. These operations team must properly monitor applications and their systems to confirm adherence to application performance goals, business service management and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). These operational monitors are purely an inquisition of the work that takes place in development and application deployment cycles.
With Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions, IT manager can easily monitor and measure traffic and end to end performance at application level by performing measurements on real traffic. The integrated solution ensures service level agreements and resolves performance issues, identifying specific bottlenecks along application delivery paths, which can span applications, database, servers and system health. APM vendors provide application and network round-trip response time, real-time alerts and unmatched proactive monitoring with full support of every application. APM solutions merge performance monitoring; diagnose the problem areas and provide remedial solutions within a single management solution and can create alerts when SLA thresholds are not met. Application monitoring tools offers enterprise-level, real-time network monitoring and application performance visibility for easy detection of the problems and an understanding of their business impact. They get easily installed and are non-intrusive appliances that require no agents and can monitor end-to-end performance across large and complex networks.
The benefits of application monitoring approach are rapidly recognized, especially in a complex application environment. One enterprise, a major investment banking organization, had to test hundreds of services, integrated through queues and easily interacting with more numbers of applications running on a mainframe. APM solutions can eliminate the need for costly additional deployment of probe appliances or software agents which reduces operational impact and troubleshooting time. It also helps to isolate the location of performance problems to easily identify the source, which helps improve collaboration between network and application teams and easily ensures performance levels in production environments.
