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The latest News and Information on Application Performance Monitoring and related technologies.

How we scale Raygun's architecture to handle more data

Due to the huge importance of sourcemaps in the workflow of our customers, sourcemaps are a crucial part of our Crash Reporting offering. We constantly strive to stay ahead of our customer demands as the amount of data we process continues to grow. We identified the sourcemapping process as an area ripe for performance improvement, so we took it apart and looked at exciting ways to build it from the ground-up using cutting-edge tech.

What Makes Application Performance Monitoring (APM) So Important?

Recently, it seems like tech companies are coming out with new hardware, software and applications on a daily basis, making it a little hard to keep up with the most current development trends. This is especially important when it comes to application monitoring because it can drastically affect your business as well as the usability of the applications you employ on a daily basis. Pandora FMS wants to offer you some insight into why monitoring is so important, so take a look!

Splunk Redefines Application Performance Monitoring with SignalFx Microservices APM

Splunk has a new Application Performance Monitoring solution purpose-built for monitoring and observability in today’s app-driven world: SignalFx Microservices APM. Learn from Rick Fitz, SVP and GM of IT Markets, and Karthik Rau, Area GM for Application Management, about the new release of SignalFx Microservices APM and how it helps DevOps teams innovate faster, elevate customer experience, and future-proof applications — all while adopting cloud-native technologies and microservices architectures.

How we made an 83% performance improvement using Real User Monitoring

As applications evolve, we may start to lose visibility into why things are slow. Web apps often suffer in silence as customers are more likely to leave when they’re unsatisfied rather than reach out. Complex user flows, resource-intensive API calls, and an ever-growing codebase can all contribute to poor performance. This is why we don’t have scheduled performance days.

Visualize performance trends over time with the latest graph for RUM

Monitoring trends in application performance helps you identify poor performance and visualize the impact of performance optimizations you’ve made. To help you better monitor performance trends, we’ve released a new line graph now available across all performance details pages in Real User Monitoring.

Effortless Load Testing | Simon Aronsson (Load Impact / k6)

Load testing and performance monitoring used to be really hard and bothersome. Not any more! With modern code-first tools and visualisation, being on top of your service scalability and performance is no longer something that's reserved for the QA department. According to research by Google, 53% of mobile website visitors will leave if the page load duration exceeds three seconds. Armed with this knowledge, We'll go through how to implement load tests and performance monitoring around it as well as how to efficiently visualize it.
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Control the chaos - The importance of monitoring traffic spikes

You've spent years scaling your infrastructure alongside your business growth, and day-to-day, your application performance is thriving. But what happens when your traffic spikes out of your predicted "normal" range, heading into unchartered territory? Are you prepared to support this new influx of customers? Or will you crumble under the pressure of it all - leaving customers dissatisfied at the poor user experience?