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Monitoring Java applications with Elastic: Getting started with the Elastic APM Java Agent

Sep 2, 2020 By Enrique Kortright In Elastic

The goal of Java application monitoring is to minimize the time it takes to discover a problem with a Java application (mean time to detect, or MTTD) and the time it takes to recover from it (mean time to resolve, or MTTR). Understanding what's going on in our code is the biggest step in finding and eliminating the root cause of a problem, and let's face it — that code that seemed clear and concise when we wrote it a year ago might not be as "self documenting" as we thought.

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APM isn't just for Ops: Shifting Left and supercharging your developers

Sep 1, 2020 By John-Daniel In Raygun

When we were rethinking what an Application Performance Monitoring product could be, we did what we always did. We thought of developers, and the ultimate users that they serve. It's no surprise then that two years back, we built an all-new take on APM from scratch. One that armed developers with the level of insights that they need to deliver great software. Fortunately, we seemed to be onto something here. The relics of the past are now starting to talk about "shifting left," meaning "moving to the left on the SDLC," meaning "empower the developers to get in earlier in the delivery to ensure a great outcome."

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Bold, insightful, real-time: Visualizing APM data with Canvas in Kibana

Sep 1, 2020 By Shaun McGough In Elastic

Since we launched Canvas in 2018, we have seen tons of our users create beautiful dashboards that tell stories with Elasticsearch data. In the spirit of making it even easier to get started, we are creating templates that you can import and get instantly beautiful dashboards for all the data the Elastic Stack captures.

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Exclaimer: Shortening the lengths of incidents with Datadog

Sep 1, 2020 By Datadog In Datadog
Hear how Matt Hodge from Exclaimer leverages Datadog Log Management to migrate away from a homegrown solution and find one platform to manage dev and ops logs. Through deep integrations with Microsoft Azure, Exclaimer is able to gain rapid visibility into their entire Azure-based infrastructure as well.
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Tips for Success When Implementing Your Transformation Initiative

Aug 31, 2020 By Dave Wagner In SolarWinds
Change isn’t without its detractors in terms of people and systems. A misstep in expanding application performance monitoring (APM) across full-stack application monitoring can result in the degradation of availability and performance, stopping a digital transformation effort in its tracks. Avoid this at all costs. Deploying a full-scale digital transformation is a vast undertaking well beyond the scope of this brief article.
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User Experience platform at a fraction of the cost: germainAPM

Aug 28, 2020 By Germain UX In Germain UX
germainAPM platform allows teams to quickly and cost-effectively lower churn rates and improved user experience. germainAPM monitors and improves User Experience, Process and Technology Performance, in real-time, 24x7. germainAPM is often used to fill-in the gaps of other major APM/BPM/DEM/automation platform since it is so flexible and customizable. Some of the greatest features that germainAPM offers: User Replay feature, Automatic Root-Cause Analysis of issues, Distributed Transaction Tracing, Business Process monitoring/insight, Alerting, Proactively Issue Detection, Automatic Issue Resolution, Tuning Recommendations.
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