With our new service platform and the convergence of dynaTrace PurePath Technology with the Gomez Performance Network, we are proud to offer an APMaaS solution that sets a higher bar for complete user experience management, with end-to-end monitoring technologies that include real-user, synthetic, third-party service monitoring, and business impact analysis. To showcase the capabilities we [...]
We have been blogging about the same problems and problem patterns we see while working with our customers over the past few of years. There have always been the classic application performance landmines in the areas of inefficient database access, misconfigured frameworks, excessive memory usage, bloated web pages and not following common web performance best [...]
A couple of weeks ago we helped a customer get more visibility into his production environment with Compuware dynaTrace. He was already using it in other environments, so he knew what he was getting. Anyway, a couple of hours later I read a tweet from him: “Just hooked up dynaTrace. Can’t wait for tomorrows traffic [...]
Swarovski – the leading producer of cut crystal in the world- relies on its eCommerce store as much like other companies in the highly competitive eCommerce environment. Swarovski’s story is no different from others in this space: They started with “Let’s build a website to sell our products online” a couple of years ago and [...]
Anyone that ever monitored or analyzed an application uses or has used averages. They are simple to understand and calculate. We tend to ignore just how wrong the picture is that averages paint of the world. To emphasis the point let me give you a real world example outside of the performance space that I [...]
Does the following situation sound familiar? From one minute to the other, your production servers grind to a halt, terse emails are complemented by equally hectic phone calls, and the first order of business is to get back up and running. After the dust settles, you’re usually left with a pile of log files and [...]
If you are an IT manager, application owner, architect or developer in a corporation leveraging a mainframe, then today is a revolutionary day: Application Performance Management is now available end-to-end for the mainframe. Read about how this will drastically change the way we manage developing, refining, testing and bug-fixing applications involving a mainframe. The Pain [...]
Because of the efforts of people like Steve Souders, John Resig, Sergey Chernyshev, Paul Irish, … a lot has changed when it comes to optimizing web site performance. Browser and Application Performance Vendors built tools to make Web Performance Optimization easier than ever before. Web Frameworks are optimized to generate better web pages. However, looking [...]
When things work great in testing it doesn’t necessarily mean that everything works great in production. There are many things that might be different – such as: much higher load than tested, different hardware, external services that couldn’t be tested, “Real Users” that execute transactions that weren’t tested. This blog marks the start of a [...]
In my previous post, I focused on the APM challenges when implementing and running a VMware ESX server environment. In this post, I’ll discuss how to solve the APM challenges in a VMware environment. As I covered in the first post, when applications are virtualized and collapsed inside a single piece of hardware, the “one-to-one” [...]
