Application Performance Monitoring is a critical function in keeping any software application fine-tuned for optimal performance within an on-premise infrastructure or a private cloud, and its importance grew even further if the application is hosted on a public cloud provider’s infrastructure, where the app owners control over the underlying architecture becomes limited. Businesses look for APM solutions to overcome the performance related issues but due to a large number of APM vendor’s segregation in the market, it is quite difficult to make a balanced decision. Selecting an Application Performance Monitoring and High-Level Server Management tools requires an organization to look down laser focused into their performance requirements, and identify the essential components, features and abilities which must be part of the Performance Monitoring tool. The cost economies, ease of management and integration, powered by Managed Service Platform makes SaaS Application Monitoring tools preferred choice for business buying decisions and many APM vendors have come with a Cloud version of their tool, delivered as a service yet equally powerful as an in-house installed solution. However, the core requirement for selecting an Application Performance Management tool remains particularly the same.
User Experience Monitoring
Identifying how the users are interacting with your application is the key feature any app developer would like to see in a monitoring tool, where real-time analysis and statistics into user-application interaction experiences, help in identifying performance issues. SaaS Application Performance Monitoring tools must equip application managers the ability to look inside their applications, with real time statistics on user sessions, user experiences with different web browsers, application response time in completing a query, application availability and other core performance centered figures essential in adjusting the application for top performance.
Easy to use and Low Complexity
SaaS based Web Application Performance Management and monitoring tools being provided as a service, must be easy to use for application managers and all other operations staff so that they can easily maneuver the tool to optimize for performance. Also the APM tool should bear low complexity in integrating and deploying within the application’s in-house data centre or a private/public cloud. Look for APM vendors which have collaboration with public/private cloud Infrastructure service providers for seamless integration into their computing resources.
Scalability Analysis & Projection
Scalability Analysis & projection mechanism in a SaaS Application Performance Monitoring tool gives application owners the ability to get insightful data on the utilization of compute resources by their application, frequency of input/output transactions server is handling over defined period of times, the application’s behavior with the increase in demand and covers the key statistics of application scalability with the growth in user base. Scalability Analysis & Projection aid businesses in planning key future enhancements for the back-end infrastructure resources, application rectification and in indentifying the potential operating environment of application in peak traffic scenarios.
Web Transaction Tracing and Application Analytics
SaaS Application Performance Monitoring tool needs to be smart in identifying the response time, error rates and other critical notifications to gain timely information on all the performance bottlenecks application is experiencing. The APM tool must investigate, analyze and audit every single transaction and compare it with the performance benchmark for continuous optimization of the managed application. Application Analytics on the other hand, should exactly pin-point the specific transaction, unclear SQL query or code causing the problem rather than application manager finding it by themselves.
Application Availability
Application’s Availability must be the prime concern for any application developer in ensuring that the application remains live even unattended round the clock 24/7/365. SaaS Application Performance Monitoring tool must routinely check your application for uptime availability and immediately reports the administrator through proactive notifications and alerts even the applications experience downtime for a single minute. Besides alerting the application managers, SaaS APM tools provide detailed event based reports on the transactions, code or server instance which caused the application downtime, for immediate remediation.
These features are a Must-Have for any SaaS Application Performance Management tool deployed by a business to control the performance of their application, gain more insight into their applications and take proactive actions to continuously tune application for desired efficiency and should be the key deciding and uncompromising factor in purchasing any APM suite.
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