New Relic is one of the industry leaders for SaaS-based application performance management. However, many are starting to look for new relic alternatives. Probably about half of those alternatives are available as SaaS APM.

If I’m used to metrics, how should I think about events in Honeycomb? This question cuts to the heart of how Honeycomb is different from other vendors in the APM and metrics space who claim to provide tools that help teams achieve observability, and we hear variations on it fairly often.

Continuous application performance management (CAPM) is a key focus area in the enterprise IT segment. With organizations increasing their focus on digital business services, monitoring and managing the application performance becomes paramount. When a digital business service is slow or down, it impacts the business adversely.

Since it was first introduced in 2002, Microsoft’s .NET Framework has garnered a robust user base that includes organizations like UPS, Stack Overflow, and Jet.com. And now, thanks to the rise of the .NET Core runtime, this high-performance framework also supports cross-platform development. To provide deeper visibility into all of these environments, we are pleased to announce that Datadog APM and distributed tracing are generally available for .NET Framework and .NET Core applications.

It’s raining accolades for ManageEngine Applications Manager, and we’re psyched! After being named a January 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Application Performance Monitoring Suites, Gartner has also recognized Applications Manager as a niche player in its 2019 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring.