AppDynamics, an application intelligence company, introduced its Summer ’15 Release (version 4.1), a feature-packed update that brings powerful new capabilities to its Application Intelligence Platform. Headlining the new release is Unified Monitoring, the industry-first, application-centric solution that traces and monitors transactions from the end user through the entire application and infrastructure environment to help quickly and proactively solve performance issues and ensure excellent user experience. Supporting the Unified Monitoring solution are the new general betas of Browser Synthetic Monitoring and Server Monitoring Pro, as well as the general availability of Apache Web Server Monitoring and Python application language support.
AppDynamics Unified Monitoring is built on a single platform, and monitors and manages end-user experience in the context of business transactions. It traces the entire business transaction path from the end-user device/OS, through the application code, databases, third-party API calls, servers, and other infrastructure, and unifies the monitoring of the application through the business transaction context. The unified solution leverages a common data platform, making it easy to install and manage, and provides consistent and shareable interfaces for all users. This approach replaces the miscellany of siloed, non-integrated, infrastructure-specific tools that characterize the monitoring solution for many enterprises.
Some 65 percent of enterprises report owning 11 or more commercial monitoring/management tools, according to recent research by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Maintaining such a stable of disparate, siloed tools can be time- and resource-intensive, and does not provide an integrated view of performance across the application environment, and therefore does not facilitate rapid, proactive issue resolution. AppDynamics Unified Monitoring solves those challenges, as it is built from the ground up specifically to provide a unified, end-to-end view that quickly reveals issues that are impacting business transactions, indicating the real impact of performance on business outcomes.
“The AppDynamics solution provides us with a unified view in real-time of user experience, application performance and availability” said Hugh Fahy, CTO at THE NET-A-PORTER GROUP. “This helps us to offer an unparalleled experience to luxury fashion customers worldwide across our publishing, web and mobile app platforms, as it allows us to monitor business transactions in real-time and increase visibility into how everything is performing.”
Unified Monitoring is a future-looking solution that recognizes enterprises’ accelerating dependence on software — the rapid evolution of “software-defined” businesses like THE NET-A-PORTER GROUP — and the fact that users are increasingly setting the bar for application functionality and performance. In this new world, a patched-together monitoring toolkit will never be an adequate solution.
“The enterprise toolbox has become extremely cluttered over the years with single-purpose tools,” said Dennis Callaghan, senior analyst, IT operations for 451 Research. “But as enterprises have become more and more driven by software, there’s a compelling need to have an integrated view of everything that impacts application performance. Trying to cobble together that view with various tools doesn’t fully show the dependencies or transaction paths, and doesn't enable agile responses to application issues. Software like AppDynamics Unified Monitoring, that’s purpose-built to monitor the entire application environment through one unified lens, is the future of enterprise application monitoring."
Jyoti Bansal, AppDynamics founder and CEO, summarizes the premise and benefit of Unified Monitoring: “What really sets Unified Monitoring apart is its focus on business transactions and the end user. You can’t understand what the experience is like for the end user by looking at this silo or that silo. You need to have the big picture to see how a transaction is performing from start to finish. If the shopping cart checkout process is slow, what’s making it slow? With Unified Monitoring, we can pinpoint the issues and quickly get to root causes and resolve them. It’s a radically different approach from the old way of looking at infrastructure and trying to piece together the picture. In this new world — where businesses are defined by software — we believe that unified, fully integrated, application-centric monitoring is an absolute must-have.”
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