Importance of Proper Application Performance Management (APM)

Application performance management enables you to analize, find and tackle potential problems and discrepancies in your app, and prevent performance issues before it reaches your customer and affects your business.

Application Performance Management helps that your application meets the established expectations for performance, availability and end customer user experience. This is done by measuring proper application performance, making sure proper personnel are made aware when performance does not hit the baseline index, identifying root causes of performance issues and removing any such issues before it reaches and affects end users.

In application performance management software application performance data is collected otherwise known as telemetry data, thoroughly analyzed and detected for potential performance problems and provides information as to which steps to take to resolve these problems.

Proper agents are deployed throughout your application environment and support infrastructure to monitor performance by analying performance and performance-related metrics.

Digital experience monitoring- where metrics like load time, response time, uptime, downtime – from the user interface on the end-user device are collected. These metrics provide interesting insights into the potential problems your application may harbour.  

Application Monitoring- where monitoring entire application stack and application framework, operating system, database, APIs, server, UI – as well as IT infrastructure monitoring that takes into account factors like CPU utilization, disk space, and network performance.  

Stack Monitoring- this includes code level tracing, sifting through the entire code of the application and pinpointing code snippets that may cause performance issues. Replacing these code snippets will help better performance and overall integration and optimization.

Database monitoring- checking responsiveness of the database, making sure there is no downtime between call and response actions. These actions provide the necessary data needed to feed to a centarlized dashboard that aggregates analyses and compares the findings to the set baselines. And any deviations from the baselines is then brought to the attention of the relevant department to tackle and resolve the issues.

Proper application performance management is essential not only for proper application performance, but also to check for key vulnerabilities in the application to avoid potential data leaks. Security is also a major concern and proper APM is essential for upkeeping proper security standards. Everyday we have news breaking about massive data leaks where millions of customer accounts are compromised. Proper APM can avoid such data leaks and the threats they may pose. Proper auditing and APM steps can help manage and curb such vulmarabilitie and attacks.