Top 5 Application Performance Management Tools

scmgalaxy K — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 22:48:18 +0000

This is the age of applications. We are using various applications in our day-to-day life to get our things done or to get information and for various other things. Therefore, applications are now playing a vital role in our life and so that for today’s businesses. In these days organisations whether they are small or large they somehow rely upon applications for there marketing, customer relations or engagements or to reach them directly and for various other reasons. Therefore, it’s really important to manage application performance so that business runs smoothly and generate productivity continuously and users can get what they want. Simply means to say everyone benefits when applications run at their best.

But, how to know is your application is performing well or not ? You can not test them manually every time or You can not wait when the users will call the customer support with issues. Right?

So, Here comes the solution “Application Performance Management” Tools. Let’s see what it is and it’s importance ?

Application performance management or APM is a kind of practice through which you can easily detect and short out the issues which occurs in applications while using, so that your application users have a good experience with it. Actually, APM monitors and manage the performance, availability and security of the application. It provides data to the administrators which makes their job easy to find the issues and resolve before it impacts on application performance.

Now, let’s check out the major benefits of Application performance management

1. Reduce Downtime (Availability) – When you integrate APM tool you can decrease your application downtime by 80 to 90 percent.

2. End User Experience – The main purpose of any application is to satisfy the user or to give them a quality experience while using there platform and APM makes it possible.

3. Generate Leads – If your application is for ecommerce or for sales perspective than it’s really important that it’s perform well so that you don’t miss the opportunity to generate the sales or leads in your business.

4. Productivity – APM can help you to save your time in troubleshooting which ultimately means you have more time to implement other things and for changes and monitoring.

Now let’s move on to the section where, You will get the real benefit of this article. All these things cannot possible without a right tool. So, I have done some research and make this list of Top 5 Application Performance Management Tools.

Here is the list:-

1. New Relic APM

Highlights

Application Monitoring
Deployment Analysis, History, and Comparison
Database Monitoring
Availability & Error Monitoring
Complete report
Team Collaboration – Team can work together
Secure

2. AppDynamics

Highlights

End-to-end transaction tracing
Troubleshooting and control
Code level visibility
Scalability
Dynamic baselining and alerting
Data retention

3. Foglight

Highlights

Integrated transaction- and customer-centric application performance monitoring
User Experience Monitoring
Transaction DNA
Advanced analytics
Enhanced collaboration

4. BMC Software APM

Highlights

Application Centric Infrastructure Monitoring
Synthetic Testing
End user experience monitoring
Deep dive diagnostic

5. OpsView

Highlights

Track and alert on application health
Group apps by business process
Set thresholds to trigger alerts
Ensure business services are meeting SLAs
Supports monitoring of major application servers
Synthetic transactions to monitor end-to-end performance

So, This is my list of Application Performance Management Tools. Hope you guys will like my efforts and if you think this list should contain some other tools instead of this than feel free to share with us in the comment section below.

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