APM Best Practices: Realizing Application Performance Management

Introduction

Application Performance Management (APM) is the name given to the use of technology to initiate, deploy, monitor, fix, update and/or optimize systems within an organization. Application management software employs measurements of response times, and other component and resource interactions, to help manage the overall stability and usability of the software within its purview. This book, presented in three parts, is intended to take you from the first discussions about planning and assessing your monitoring needs, through the details and considerations of an APM technology implementation, and onto the types of skills, processes and competencies that you will need to be completely successful in the utilization of APM. And it is not ...