Now that you've built the swanky n of your dreams, ? software applicatio what’s next Well, if you’re an or a , you already know that you now need to put a robust application system in place. experienced programmer veteran product manager monitoring For those readers who do not fall in the above categories, an application monitoring system is a set of processes (usually made available via a standalone application) to help provide an admin with of the software system’s performance. runtime metrics Think of it as the dashboard that has information from diverse sources and tracks to present to you an easier-to-read graphical user interface with charts and graphs. multiple datapoints But, Why Would I Need an app for That? From a purely technical standpoint, you don’t and there are two reasons for that: You can build your (by diverting resources from your main software). own dashboard Your software would already be a and application monitoring is for “other people.” smash-hit on launch For all else, application monitoring is not a question of why but more of a “How quickly can I integrate it” and “How Deep does the Instrumentation go?”. Let’s Start With The Basics First, Shall We? Maybe, you’re a one-man-army and on your own. Or, it was a team effort. built your software In both cases, your code needs to be evaluated for memory bloats, poor , or even, a that could be faster. performance database query You could do all of that manually or simply let a software take care of ‘your software’. There’s a reason why we all clamor for — this is one of those. automation So, It’ll Consume Resources To Save Resources? There are two ways of looking at this: You get a cat to catch the mice eating away at your grain. Then you get a cow for milk to feed the cat. Then, you get a person to care for the cow — that’s wasteful resource allocation. We all need to avoid that. The second way is how armies fight wars. Tactics aside, it’s almost always a numbers game. When resources are optimized, you get a better output — you won the war Makes Sense? APM software is sort of like the second category. They’re fine-tuned to not consume resources recklessly while also providing you with a unified dashboard to visualize and evaluate a lot of seemingly unrelated process flows such as or component-level performance. end-user journeys

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