4D Application Performance Monitoring | Application Performance Management Solutions from Application Performance Ltd

Application Performance Monitoring: monitoring performance for business transactions

We know that the code excuted within the application server plays an important part in the delivery of a well performance application. And if this code is not running efficiently the impact on application response times and throughput can be huge.

At AP we have a long history in Java and .NET performance management and tuning. Over the years we have helped many companies to maximize the performance of their critical Java and .NET applications in development, load testing and production environments.

We partner with AppDynamics who are the leading provider of application management for modern application architectures in both the cloud and the data center, delivering solutions for highly demanding distributed, dynamic, and agile environments.

Some of the benefits AppDynamics can provide are:

24x7 Performance management with alerting and reporting
Open up the 'black box' to see the code executing with the JVM or .NET CLR
Performance tuning of Java and .NET code
Optimization of system and application server parameters
Performance Prediction and Planning
Follow the path of transactions from web request through to database SQL - even across multiple tiers!
Breakdown response time and resource usage by the logical layers

Enhance end-user experience:

by monitoring real users in real time

Ultimately this is the only performance measurement that really matters. If your users are getting fast page load times so they can do their job efficiently without frustration then other performance measurements are largely irrelevant. We recommend you measure the real end user time response times (not only synthetic or ping response times) continually. WebTuna lets you know exactly what performance every user and every location is experiencing for every page on your site, building up a long term history automatically.


WebTuna monitors real page load times for all page views from all users, all of the time.
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Accelerate:

every page of your website

Accelerate your website, web application or SharePoint site with the same product Microsoft uses. Aptimize can optimise pages in real time, instantly accelerating your website, portal or intranet. Aptimize works by merging, compressing and caching page resources, typically reducing load times by about half. The product requires no code changes, no extra hardware and configuration usually takes under an hour.


Aptimize can halve your web page load times without any code changes or extra hardware.
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Database Performance:

monitoring and tuning for your backend database performance

We recommend you monitor your database and the SQL queries which execute against it using an ‘always-on’ collector agent which means that it can build up a historical trend of SQL performance over time allowing you to drill down into any slow periods no matter when they occur. We suggest using a wait-time based approach to measurement to see which queries are taking longest time or consuming the most resources and which resources (CPU, I/O, locks etc) are being utilised or waited on.


DBTuna continuously monitors your database and the SQL being executed highlighting exactly what needs to be tuned.
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Application Performance:

monitoring performance for business transactions

AppDynamics is quick and easy to install. Most things are auto-configured unlike other instrumentation based monitors where a time consuming configuration process is usually required to get the instrumentation levels right. It also takes away the risk of over-instrumenting the application which can add too much overhead or under-instrumenting which can leave blind spots. Within minutes of installing AppDynamics will dynamically discover your application topology and business transaction flows. This complete visibility of the end-to-end transaction flows means you will be able to find the root cause of SharePoint performance problems quickly wherever they reside.


AppDynamics give complete visibility of the end-to-end transaction flows across your Java or .NET applications.
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