Application monitoring is an essential capability that provides real-time analysis of both front-end and back-end performance of business-critical applications. Application monitoring plays a vital role in ensuring the non-stop operation of applications by providing valuable insights into their availability, performance and end-user experience. Proactive monitoring of applications helps to quickly identify and resolve any potential issues, reducing downtime and ultimately improving overall user satisfaction.
Application monitoring is used to:
- Maintain constant uptime
- Improve application user experience
- Prevent application interruption
- Map applications to dependent components
- Gain visibility into application infrastructure
- cut costs
Organizations often rely on application monitoring tools to automatically alert them to potential performance degradation so that necessary corrective actions can be taken ahead of time. Applications Manager has helped countless DevOps teams easily manage failures of their IT workloads by providing complete visibility into their application infrastructure and assisting them.
What are the key areas for application monitoring
Some of the key areas covered by an application monitoring system include front-end and back-end performance tracking, end-user monitoring, alert generation, reporting, application availability, tracing, discovery, and dependency mapping.
Why monitoring applications is important
End users are bound to get frustrated when they encounter slow business applications that may drive them to look for alternatives. With application monitoring, gain insight into health and be notified of potential anomalies to prevent application outages. A good tool will have a visual dashboard that displays data to help understand the performance of the application and pinpoint areas for improvement. Identifying and preventing performance issues is nearly impossible without an application monitoring service.
Using real-time data, performance statistics, and predictive forecasts, Application Manager strives to provide comprehensive visibility into application infrastructure and guarantee continuous availability.
Application Monitoring Features
- Track, analyze and troubleshoot application performance
- Map application dependencies
- Dive into the application stack
- Improve application user experience
Track, analyze and troubleshoot application performance
Helps development and operations teams understand how their applications behave and how they behave from a back-end perspective. With comprehensive visual aids such as graphs and charts, the application monitoring dashboard is designed to give users an at-a-glance view of the status of their applications and provide the data needed to ensure constant uptime. Applications Manager displays metrics such as Apdex Score (User Satisfaction), Response Time, Throughput, Request Count, Error Percentage and Exceptions for the applications being monitored.
Map application dependencies
Using visual maps to make connections between an application and its components is crucial when it comes to application monitoring. Since the number of interdependencies can be quite high in a large IT environment, having features like application dependency mapping makes it easier to visually identify exact weaknesses.
Use Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM) to help map how different resources are connected in the application infrastructure. It automatically detects applications running on different servers and network devices, draws the relationship between them, and presents an overall view of the entire network in the form of a map. New applications and resources found will be automatically added to the map based on a discovery schedule provided by the user.
- Dependency Graph : Establishes a view of the relationships between all servers and their application.
- Business Service Map : A view that establishes relationships between different monitoring groups, interdependent resources, and applications.
Dive into the application stack
Applications that are critical to business operations are often powered by an ecosystem of resources, and if one fails, the entire structure collapses, which can be time-consuming and expensive, but is required to keep track of the entire application stack. Not only does Applications Manager have the right tools to track all application components, but it also helps integrate with other IT operations management tools in a single console.
Provide different monitoring functions:
- server monitoring
- container monitoring
- service monitoring
- web server monitoring
- cloud monitoring
- website monitoring
- Enterprise Resource Planning Monitoring
- Application Server Monitoring
- database monitoring
- virtual machine monitoring
- middleware monitoring
- CI monitoring
Provides visibility into the application stack with intelligent reporting, alerting and tracing capabilities.
Improve application user experience
Understanding how users perceive your app can be tricky because there are various real-world factors that can affect their experience. With a clear understanding of the front-end performance of the application, one aims to provide a smooth and fast digital journey for its application users. Application monitoring solutions like application managers capture user-centric data and provide you with data that can be used to improve the overall customer experience of your web applications.
Applications Manager has true user monitoring that captures users' satisfaction (Apdex score), view count, error count, and page load speed (response time) metrics. As a tool for real-time application monitoring, it helps you discover applications in different countries, browsers, device types and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). In addition, developers can track user activity through their Web applications to single out slow transactions, heavy resources, and potential errors.
Applications Manager is an application performance monitoring software that provides deep visibility into the performance and user experience of business-critical applications and infrastructure components. Provides extensive application monitoring capabilities to help administrators quickly isolate and resolve performance issues.