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The APM Blindspot

Why Traditional Monitoring Tools Are Insufficient - And How To Address The Problem

Mehdi Daoudi, CEO and co-founder, Catchpoint

In the early days of the Internet age, performance monitoring was a simple pursuit: you had a few systems to track, mostly within your own datacenter; a few third-party applications or social tags in place; and your customers, just getting acquainted to broadband, were OK when load times occasionally lagged. Oh, the good 'ol days! That level of simplicity is now ancient history. Fast-forward to today, application performance monitoring (APM) is transforming by necessity, driven by increasingly impatient consumers and business users who expect Google-like speeds. Despite this, many APM systems and approaches remain traditional - correlating website and application performance levels to internal datacenter assets to identify what is causing an online service to be slow or unavailable. Read More >>

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