Application Performance Management for Enterprise Applications

Application performance management is all about delivering business applications that meet customer expectation by deep monitoring, quick troubleshooting and tracking end user experience. In order to do that, the IT Operations team must also be in control of the whole process of application delivery. They should be able to make educated decisions and resolve issues quickly and make optimum use of their time. All these in the end results in satisfied customers, efficiently run IT Operations and better ROI.

Enterprise Application performance management tools consists of End User Experience Monitoring, Infrastructure Performance management and Performance troubleshooting tools

a) Infrastructure performance Management:

This consists of tracking performance metrics of applications and servers and ensuring optimal usage of servers. Traditional monitoring tools do simple uptime checks or stop with monitoring CPU Utilization or memory utilization of the Server. However as infrastructure becomes complex, it is essential to monitor the applications on these servers and their performance metrics to better understand where the bottleneck is. With N Tier Application architectures, comes complexity. Hence it is also essential to monitor the uptime and performance of the various tiers like database servers, web servers, mail servers, and other web services.

b)End User Experience Monitoring:

This capability ensures better Quality of Experience for end users within the corporate LAN. Additionally it helps enterprises monitor mission critical (SaaS) applications they deliver to customers. Monitoring end user experience helps prove to the line of business that you are ensuring the promised SLAs in word and deed.

c)Performance Troubleshooting:

Application troubleshooting tools help you find out the root cause of a reported problem. For example a Java Transaction Monitoring tool could get in to the details of the Java Transactions executing in an Application Server and help identify which SQL Queries are taking time to execute or which methods in the Java class are slowing down the application. These help save precious time for your application team to resolve a problem. On the long run, it also helps ensure better performing applications that not only scale but are also reliable making life easy for IT operations.

Enterprise applications need high scalability to cater to a large end user base. The top issues faced by IT Teams in these organizations are monitoring uptime and ensuring good performance for their business applications. To resolve these problems, enterprises need to make strategic investments in end-to-end application performance management tools that can empower the IT Operations Team to deliver business applications that meet customer expectations.

.Enterprises need high scalability architecture to meet their business needs. These architectures make it complex for IT Administrators to manage using traditional NSM tools. Additionally, the pressure to deliver more with less resources force enterprises to make optimum use of the available hardware without compromising on end user experience.

ManageEngine Applications Manager helps the CIOs to ensure their investments in mission- critical applications are functioning as planned in production. Additionally, Application Performance Management helps in knowing application downtimes, capacity planning, and rapid troubleshooting by encapsulating the complexity in monitoring a heterogeneous IT environment.
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