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8 essential questions
to ask when evaluating
an APM solution
Why Application Performance The three core capabilities of a modern
Management (APM) is crucial in today’s APM solution
software-defined world
As you compare solutions, you’ll notice many
Software has forever changed the way we different industry interpretations of what
interact and do business. To survive in this capabilities APM should cover. But it all comes
software-defined world, organizations are down to three simple requirements. You know an
continually redefining and evolving their APM solution is comprehensive if it provides:
software strategies to provide applications
that engage and delight customers like never • Visibility across your entire application
before. To put it bluntly, the new competitive stack. It’s important to visualize and monitor
battleground is digital, and the only way to win is every interaction and all activity across the full
by exceeding the expectations of your users. stack of an application. This includes all the
front-end, back-end, infrastructure, and cloud
But these modern applications require complex components required for your application to
architectures to meet the demands of users, perform properly.
as well as to ensure companies can innovate at
a rapid pace to remain competitive. Although • Insights into application performance.
these complexities help organizations deliver A good APM solution helps you understand
the experience expected by users, they’re what “normal” performance looks like, and
becoming increasingly hard to manage and are when performance deviates from the norm. It
more susceptible to problems that impact overall should alert your support teams — ideally in
performance. real time — to these anomalies as they emerge,
so teams can quickly take action.
This makes Application Performance
Management (APM) a business necessity. In • Analysis of the root-cause of issues. You
general, the goal of APM is to help businesses should be able to identify not only where the
identify and remedy potential application issues problem is coming from, but also what caused
before they impact the end user. But with the the issue, for the fastest possible Mean Time
numerous APM products in the market today, To Resolution (MTTR).
how do you know a potential solution can
support the needs of your specific application?
but is it easy to deploy? Does it support SaaS, By asking the right questions, you’ll be able to
hybrid, and on-premises configurations? This pinpoint which solutions offer the breadth and depth
powerful and complex feature set should be of capabilities needed to support the needs of your
packaged into a simple, elegant, and user- application — both today, and every step of the way
friendly interface. Relevant and contextual along your digital transformation journey.
data and insights should be easily accessible
and digestible for stakeholders both within
and outside of IT. Additionally, the solution
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