Category: Industry Trends
Aberdeen Report: The Value of End-to-End APM and How to Achieve It
“Taking an end-to-end approach to application performance management can seem like the obvious thing to do. But it hasn’t been the way that performance management has traditionally worked. In order to implement an end-to-end performance management system, organizations need to overcome both internal divisions between IT teams and the old school performance management and monitoring [...]
Reimagining Packet Capture in Light of Riverbed’s Opnet Acquisition
ExtraHop recently announced a method of packet capture that enables network and security teams to capture packets of interest with surgical precision. This capability preserves all the benefits of packet capture—namely, an exact record of what caused a performance slowdown or policy breach—without the downsides of traditional methods. Scroll down to the bottom of this [...]
Why Visibility Across Tiers Is Important for DBAs
Database administrators (DBAs) are feeling the heat. Database profilers cannot be run continuously in production due to the overhead they impose. Without them, though, DBAs are flying blind. What DBAs need is a better way to understand database performance in production environments. That’s the message we heard repeatedly at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 last week in [...]
Why ExtraHop + Splunk Integration Matters
The new Splunk App for ExtraHop captures real-time metrics that are otherwise difficult or impossible to log. Splunk has made headlines over the past few months for its successful IPO and powerful Big Data approach to log file analysis. IT Operations teams all over the world use Splunk Enterprise software to free them from the [...]
Lowering the Cost of Entry for Application Performance Management (APM)
The application performance management (APM) industry is evolving rapidly in response to two intertwined trends: Businesses are placing a greater emphasis on application performance, and IT Operations teams need a holistic view across the datacenter in real time. At ExtraHop Networks, we’re doing our part to speed the development of the industry both in terms [...]
The 2012 Gartner MQ for APM: What IT Operations Teams Need to Know
Gartner has released its 2012 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) report, highlighting growth in APM spending and a rapidly evolving market. This year’s report evaluated vendors according to Gartner’s five dimensions for APM and added the requirement that APM vendors include Java and .NET code instrumentation in their solution which requires agents. Despite [...]
Dealing with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Data Overload, Part 2
Last week, we summarized TRAC Research’s Market Insight report, “Improving the Usability of APM Data: Essential Capabilities and Benefits.” Read that post here. This week’s post lays out one of ExtraHop’s answers to the application performance monitoring (APM) data overload problem. In talking with IT Operation teams, we heard a common complaint: other APM products were [...]