Up to this point in time, cloud-base Application Performance Management (APM) vendor AppNeta has focused on the “big five” application development environments: Java, .NET, php, Python, and Ruby. Recently they added Node.js to the list. As a result, their TraceView product can now monitor well over 90% of the modern code in production today.
However, there is more to the addition of Node.js to this list than simply rounding out the monitoring capabilities of TraceView. In fact, Node.js plays an important part of today’s real-time digital world. To fully understand the importance of monitoring Node.js, therefore, we must place this tool into context.