As IT architects
and consultants, it is crucial to ensure a highly performing, stable and scalable
production environment for you client applications. Proper monitoring along
with a comprehensive capacity planning model is crucial in order to achieve
such goals.
While most
performance data can be extracted at runtime through various OS commands and
open source tools, large and complex IT production environments often requires the
deployment of commercial grade APM solutions for an efficient management of the
operations.
Before
providing recommendations to your client and purchase the first APM product you
find on the Web, it is important to properly review the different APM solutions
and compare their product capabilities vs. your client operation needs and
budget.
A
trusted source of information I have been following since a few years now is
the Gartner
Magic Quadrant report for APM. Gartner’s APM yearly report is essentially
an extensive research of every vendor that meets their qualifications. The
process also includes customer interviews. The final report places each vendor
on two axes, Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute, and then places
them accordingly on a Quadrant. If not done already, I recommend that you
obtain your own copy of the 2013 report.
I will
publish more articles this year and share my recent experience with top APM
solutions such as New Relic, AppDynamics, Compuware DynaTrace and Dell
Foglight.
Please do
not hesitate to share your experience along with your constructive comments on
APM solutions.
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