{"id":11698,"date":"2014-10-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3133223"},"modified":"2014-10-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T12:00:00","slug":"monitoring-magic-and-the-future-of-apm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/monitoring-magic-and-the-future-of-apm\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring Magic and the Future of APM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consider that the Age of the Cloud has precipitated a new agent concept which is lightweight, deploys quickly, and goes in virtually undetected with zero configuration. These agents are built with a survival mode in mind including a self-healing option for hands-free maintenance. At the time when we were looking for a monitoring solution (2006-2007) APM as we know it today had yet to be defined. There was no Gartner MQ, real-user-monitoring (RUM) was too high level, \u201cagent monitoring\u201d brought concerns of overhead and complexity, instrumenting the application meant to ARM it (i.e. Application Response Measurement), and transaction tagging was a pipe dream.
\nThere was no Gartner MQ, real-user-monitoring (RUM) was too high level, \u201cagent monitoring\u201d brought concerns of overhead and complexity, instrumenting the application meant to ARM it (i.e. Application Response Measurement), and transaction tagging was a pipe dream. This created a fierce debate on the risks and rewards of agent vs. agentless monitoring…<\/p>\n

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Consider that the Age of the Cloud has precipitated a new agent concept which is lightweight, deploys quickly, and goes in virtually undetected with zero configuration. These agents are built with a survival mode in mind including a self-healing option for hands-free maintenance. At the time when we were looking for a monitoring solution (2006-2007) APM as we know it today had yet to be defined. There was no Gartner MQ, real-user-monitoring (RUM) was too high level, “agent monitoring” brought concerns of overhead and complexity, instrumenting the application meant to ARM it (i.e. Application Response Measurement), and transaction tagging was a pipe dream.
\nThere was no Gartner MQ, real-user-monitoring (RUM) was too high level, “agent monitoring” brought concerns of overhead and complexity, instrumenting the application meant to ARM it (i.e. Application Response Measurement), and transaction tagging was a pipe dream. This created a fierce debate on the risks and rewards of agent vs. agentless monitoring…<\/p>\n

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