The Five Essential Elements of Application Performance Monitoring: Chapter 4 - Diving Deep into Your Application Components

Businesses are driving their IT operations managers to improve performance and boost productivity by becoming increasingly application-centric, a radical change of the infrastructure-centric approach that IT has had for years. At the same time, however, applications themselves are becoming increasingly difficult to manage as they move toward highly-distributed, multi-tier, multi-element constructs that in many cases rely on application development frameworks such as Microsoft .NET or Java.

In The Five Essential Elements of Application Performance Monitoring, author and renowned business technology expert Don Jones discusses an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) approach that helps businesses achieve this new application-centric focus.  You will learn how to improve application performance from the perspective of the business and the end user.  Jones offers an informative discussion of new tools and techniques that are enabling new, more effective forms of APM, and closes the book with a set of evaluation criteria for APM tools, based on this approach.

Chapter 4: Diving Deep into Your Application Components

Determining application health doesn't end at the server level. Finding the root cause of performance problems requires diving deep into application component monitoring - all the way down to each bit of Java or .NET Framework. This chapter explains how top-level, application-wide monitoring allows you to eliminate cross-department finger pointing and fix the source of the problem.