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TCP RTOs: Retransmission Timeouts & Application Performance Degradation
- Justin Baker
- Updated June 5, 2018
In an effort to rid the world of needless application and network performance slowdowns, we turn to retransmission timeouts (RTOs). What are they and what can you do about them? What Is TCP…
Build Custom Metrics for Any Application
- John McGovern
- October 20, 2015
How to turn raw data from any application into useful metrics with Javascript-based application inspection triggers for improved IT operations analytics.
What Is a Tinygram?
- Matt Cauthorn
- September 21, 2015
What are tinygrams? When do they arise? Are they a problem? What can I do about them and how do I do it?
What Caused My Web Server to Crash?
- Anna Brown
- August 28, 2014
Note: The ExtraHop Discovery Edition is no longer under active development or maintenance, but current license-holders may continue to use all features described in this post. Welcome back to our Web…
See Who's Using (or Abusing) Your Network
- Anna Brown
- August 1, 2014
Note: The ExtraHop Discovery Edition is no longer being actively maintained or updated, but all of the functions described in this post still apply to existing DE licenses and Enterprise Editions of…
Why I Joined ExtraHop – One Wire Data Expert's Story
- John Smith
- January 16, 2014
[Editor's note: John Smith is a Citrix Technology Professional and author of the wiredata.net blog. He recently joined ExtraHop's Solutions Architecture team to help IT organizations gain new…
How to Answer the SharePoint Monitoring Questions You Care About
- Justin Baker
- February 19, 2013
Microsoft has sold more than 125 million licenses of its SharePoint collaboration platform to over 65,000 organizations. With SharePoint environments scaling to accommodate more users and more…
Aberdeen Report: The Value of End-to-End APM and How to Achieve It
- Justin Baker
- December 19, 2012
"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…
Case Study: DevOps Collaboration with Application Performance Management (APM)
- Tyson Supasatit
- October 24, 2012
Traditionally, performance-monitoring tools have been relegated to silos—DBAs have their database profilers, developers and Q&A have their agent-based application instrumentation, and network guys…
Why ExtraHop + Splunk Integration Matters
- Justin Baker
- September 17, 2012
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…
ExtraHop v3.7 - APM Improvements for Ease of Use and Visualization
- Justin Baker
- September 4, 2012
We've just released version 3.7 of the ExtraHop system, including important new application performance monitoring functionality that makes IT operations more agile and efficient. Our aim with this…
Lowering the Cost of Entry for Application Performance Management (APM)
- Justin Baker
- August 22, 2012
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…