How Do you Monitor Your Logging?
Applications typically log additional data such as exceptions to different data sources. Windows event logs, local files, and SQL databases are most commonly used in production. New applications can...
View ArticleThe Fourth Digital Wave: The Age of Application Intelligence
This post originally appeared on APM Digest Welcome to the fourth era of digital. The first three periods or ages or phases — call them what you like — were each defined clearly by transformative...
View ArticleDon’t Treat the Symptoms — The Importance of Finding the Root Cause
I was recently reading Freakonomics’ authors Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner’s latest book, Think Like a Freak, and passed over a quote that really resonated with me: So rather than address...
View ArticleHow to Triage a Busy Thread Count Alert in 14 Minutes
This is a real example of troubleshooting a production application issue provided by an AppDynamics customer. What you are about to see is a combination of run time analytics, adaptive data collection,...
View ArticlePart Dev, Part Ops = DevOps [INFOGRAPHIC]
Read more about how AppDynamics helps foster DevOps and take five minutes to get complete visibility into the performance of your production applications with AppDynamics Pro today! The post Part...
View ArticleHolographic Haystacks — Capturing Business Transactions
Why Archive Every Business Transaction? The other day I found myself in a discussion with a prospect regarding the merits of capturing complete stack traces for every transaction that flowed through...
View ArticleImproving the quality of mobile applications with Mobile APM
Mobile applications now account for 15 percent of all Internet traffic, with 1.5 billion users worldwide. Done right, a simple iPhone application can reach 50 million users in days. When you have a...
View ArticleOne bad App can ruin your health
How do users react when their mobile applications aren’t performing up to expectations? How frustrated do they become? These were answers we sought out to find when we started the App Attention Span...
View ArticleAppDynamics Responds to CA’s Meritless Claims
We issued a press release today in response to a press release earlier today by CA who alleged that it has ownership over a small amount of AppDynamics source code written by AppDynamics’ founders. We...
View ArticleAppDynamics Closes $120 million in Growth Funding — The Best is Yet to Come
We’ve come a long way since 2008, when I was writing code in my home at night and pitching venture capitalists during the day. Six years later, we have more than 450 employees in offices across the...
View ArticleGartner, IBM, + AWS keynotes announced for AppSphere 2014!
We are excited to announce that AppSphere 2014 will feature keynotes from Jonah Kowall, Research Vice President, IT Operations at Gartner; Lance Crosby, Chief Executive Officer of SoftLayer, an IBM...
View ArticleThe answer for government applications migrating to the cloud: visibility
Recently, I’ve had several conversations with US Federal Government Agencies about monitoring applications moving to FedRAMP (The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) data centers....
View ArticleThe future of Ops, part 1
The disruption of industries through software Marc Andreessen famously stated in 2011 that “software is eating the world”. The world runs on software defined businesses. These businesses realize that...
View ArticleMonitoring IBM Maximo Performance
If you’re like most of our customers running IBM Maximo, you’ve probably run into a performance issue or two recently — maybe it was something obvious, maybe it took a long time to debug, maybe you...
View ArticleJoin Gartner, IBM, + AWS at AppSphere and save $200 when you register in August!
AppSphere is just a few short months away, and we’ve lined up an incredible agenda that will uncover the trends that are affecting technology and discuss best practices for managing the impact of...
View ArticleThe future of Ops, part 2
In my first post, I discussed how software and various tools are dramatically changing the Ops department. This post centers on the automation process. When I was younger, you actually had to build a...
View ArticleAppDynamics Brings Big Data Science to APM in Summer ’14 Release
Today I am pleased to announce the availability of the AppDynamics Summer ‘14 Release. With this release, AppDynamics brings the first event store to capture and process big data streams in real-time...
View ArticleWhat’s new in the Summer 2014 release for the Exec Team
As part of our recent release announcement, AppDynamics has improved the functionality for application owners that are concerned with the high-level impact of performance on the applications they...
View ArticleWhat’s new in the Summer ‘14 release for the Ops Team
AppDynamics recently announced our summer release that builds upon our history of delivering game changing functionality and innovations in application performance management. In our latest version,...
View ArticleWhat’s new in the Summer ‘14 release for Java & .NET Developers
As part of AppDynamics’ Summer ‘14 release, we added support for a plethora of new features in the Java & .NET product modules. What does this news mean for Java & .Net developers? Let’s take...
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