Application performance monitoring (APM) tools have become a fundamental part of many organisations that wish to track and observe the optimal functioning of their web-based applications. These tools serve to greatly simplify the process through automation and allow teams to effectively collaborate to maximize efficiency, enabling you to reach the root cause of an issue before it reaches your customers.
X-ray machines are one of the most sophisticated tools in the medical field. Capable of creating images of someone’s fractured arm, x-rays enable medical professionals to see what is going on in a patient’s most vital areas. In the IT world, server monitoring has a similar function.
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When the services in your distributed application interact with a database, you need telemetry that gives you end-to-end visibility into query performance to troubleshoot application issues. But often there are obstacles: application developers don’t have visibility into the database or its infrastructure, and database administrators (DBAs) can’t attribute the database load to specific services.
