Topic: apm
New Relic introduces APM support for AWS Lambda
New Relic has announced a number of new features to help organizations adopt modern architectures, including new APM support for AWS Lambda. Application monitoring for AWS Lambda will provide improved visibility into function invocations, event sources, and connected services. This will enable DevOps teams to more quickly build and deploy applications using AWS functions-as-a-service, New … continue reading
SD Times news digest: SignalFx Microservices APM, Dart 2.1, and Bugcrowd’s pen testing solution
Cloud monitoring company SignalFx has revealed SignalFx Microservices APM, which is a new application performance monitoring solution designed for DevOps teams. The solution is built on top of the company’s streaming analytics platform, giving it access to power data analytics. “The world happens in real-time and if something goes wrong, finding problems minutes later just … continue reading
Elastic Stack 6.5 features new visualization and collaboration tools
Open-source search and analytics company Elastic released version 6.5 of its Elastic Stack suite of open-source utilities today, introducing infrastructure monitoring, distributed tracing support and Java and Go agents in the Elastic APM tool. While this release may be labeled as a ‘minor release’ the company explained there are foundational stack-level features being applied for … continue reading
Six pillars of monitoring automation
Changes in software development that have led to accelerated delivery cadences are stressing other parts of the application life cycle. This is especially true in organizations adopting microservices architecture, where teams are working autonomously to deliver their software, which by definition relies on communication with other services to form a more complete application. And one … continue reading
Riverbed announces new application and network performance management capabilities for the cloud
Application performance management (APM) is evolving beyond monitoring just the health and performance of an application and expanding to include the network. Network performance management (NPM) is meant to manage and monitor the performance of a computer network. In the latest release of Riverbed’s SteelCentral, it is targeting both APM and NPM with new capabilities. … continue reading
APM for today’s new architectures
The role of APM has traditionally been to flag issues in code that affect performance. To resolve those issues, it has been necessary to understand all the spaghetti code of a monolithic application – written by multiple developers who often do not have an overarching view of the entire application – and then deconstruct that … continue reading
SD Times news digest: TIBCO acquires Scribe, H2O.ai and IBM’s AI partnership, and Apache Pulsar 2.0
TIBCO has announced it is acquiring the cloud-based integration service Scribe Software. According to the company, Scribe helps businesses connect SaaS apps and automate data flows with a browser-based approach. The acquisition will combine Scribe’s capabilities with TIBCO Cloud Integration’s SaaS and hybrid integration features. “By strengthening TIBCO’s Connected Intelligence Cloud with Scribe’s unique data … continue reading
SD Times news digest: N|Solid 3.2, Microsoft Azure Databricks, Project Natick and SmartBear SoapUI Pro 2.4
NodeSource has announced the release of its platform for managing, securing and analyzing mission-critical Node.js apps. N|Solid 3.2 features new diagnostic functionality and an improved UI for monitoring and managing large-scale Node.js deployments. “As our customer base has grown along with the Node.js ecosystem, we saw the need for more powerful monitoring and management functionality … continue reading
Sentry 9 aims to deliver new ways for developers to resolve app errors faster
The open-source APM solution for developers has released version 9.0 of its platform. Sentry 9 is designed with new ways to cut the time required to resolve application errors. According to the company, the latest release turns application errors into iterations that can be addressed and resolved within the current workflow. About 90 percent of … continue reading
Fewer bugs, faster releases: How APM improves the SDLC
Breaking down a series of interdependent movements into discrete actions is often the first step to improving the performance of everything from professional orchestras to sports teams. And so it is with software. The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) evolved out of an effort in the late 1960s to put formal quality processes in place … continue reading
Efforts to standardize tracing through OpenTracing
Industry efforts toward distributed tracing have been evolving for decades, and one of the latest initiatives in this arena is OpenTracing, an open distributed standard for apps and OSS packages. APMs like LightStep and Datadog are eagerly pushing forward the emerging specification, as are customer organizations like HomeAway, PayPal and Pinterest, while some other industry … continue reading
Google introduces tracing, debugging and profiling tools for APM
Google has announced new application performance management (APM) capabilities for developers with the introduction of Stackdriver APM and Stackdriver Profiler. These APM solutions are designed to give developers distributed tracing, debugging and profiling tools for their code. According to the company, the APM tools are the same tools Google uses internally to monitor and fine … continue reading
