Why You Should Monitor Your Applications

Applications are the lifeblood of a business and there is no leeway for downtime or poor user experience.?These are the kinds of flaws that break companies.?In such situations, prevention is better than a cure, so you need to fix your applications before they cause problems. But here’s the problem – applications are complicated things. Giant, interconnected messes of code with a thousand dependencies and edge cases, applications can be extremely difficult to fix.

?In such cases, businesses need a diagnostic tool – a health checker for their applications. Click here to look at our research into developing such tools.

?But like they say “it takes a thief to catch a thief”, it takes technology to fix technology. And the tech you need to get your applications in top form is called application performance monitoring, better known as APM.

Here’s a fun fact: on websites, a single second's delay results in a 7% loss in conversions, 11% fewer page views, and a 16% decrease in customer satisfaction.?After waiting for three seconds, 57% of customers leave the site, never to return.

?Not a very fun fact, is it?

?The problem is even worse for applications, given that they are purpose-built for a specific function and cannot afford to make customers wait.

?This is where APM comes in.?Choosing the right APM solution can make the difference between success and failure for many businesses. As such, any good APM suite should meet three criteria, namely:

Selecting an APM suite can be difficult and there are multiple things that you must take into account before making the final decision. To take a closer look at the factors that affect this decision check out this APM checklist by clicking here.

?There are three types of companies that APM helps the most:

If your company falls into one of these three categories, you probably already recognize the importance of APM. However, any company that possesses infrastructure uses APM in one form or another. According to Gartner, 20% of all business applications would be monitored by APM by 2021.?

?Every day, more companies are recognizing the importance of good application performance management.?Is yours one of them?