What is APM and What Does the APM Acronym Mean?

What Information Does APM Provide?

APM helps you build and deliver high-performing applications, infrastructure, and networks on and off the cloud. It continuously monitors applications with minimal overhead to give you end-to-end visibility and insights around-the-clock and provides:

• Application Performance Insights: Trace every transaction from user to back-end. Understand app dependencies, or expose and fix even the most hard-to-detect code, SQL or web services problems quickly.
• Infrastructure Diagnostics: Continuously monitor your dynamic infrastructure. See their impact on your apps and vice versa.

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How Does APM Help in Monitoring and Troubleshooting Applications?

A comprehensive APM solution is critical to minimize downtime and maximize productivity. APM enables App Ops and DevOps teams to:

Rapidly diagnose the root cause of performance problems

• Identify performance problems sooner and avoid negative impacts to the business with advanced analytics that detect, isolate, and pinpoint performance problems.
• Identify problems fast by seeing all components of application delivery, including containerized environments and micro-services based architectures.
• Stitch transactions from the user, across the network, and into the application backend to breakdown silos and eliminate bottlenecks or errors wherever they lie.
• Eliminate the “war room” that takes IT resources away from more strategic projects and reduce or eliminate “finger pointing.”

Dramatically improve efficiency

• Streamline communication among teams (faster development life cycles, lower support costs, and fewer project failures).
• Leverage dashboards and reporting that present relevant information to business, IT, and DevOps stakeholders.
• Understand how applications are performing with easy-to-digest performance views.

Proactively manage performance problems

• Discover the landscape of application component dependencies across all IT assets to perform impact analysis and to ensure all critical parts of the application delivery chain are monitored.
• Enable faster, more accurate planning to minimize the impact of IT change initiatives.

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