CA
Technologies, a leader in industry application performance
management solutions today announced new survey research, "Seven Trends in Docker Container Monitoring," a study conducted in collaboration with Gatepoint
Research. As application containerization adoption continues to rise,
the survey findings examine key challenges and provide guidance for
organizations to maximize their container investments.
Containers
offer immense value to enterprises by allowing developers to easily
build, ship and run any application virtually anywhere, as a
lightweight, self-sufficient package. In turn, organizations benefit
from the ability to enable instant application portability. According to
a recent Gartner study of 664 respondents, "65% of respondents stated
that their organization expected to deploy containers into production by
the end of 2017...Further, an additional 13% expect to deploy
containers during 2018, suggesting that interest and adoption will only
increase."
"Digital
transformation initiatives increasingly rely on cloud-based
containerized applications that cannot be managed with traditional IT
monitoring tools," said Ali Siddiqui, general manager of the Agile
Operations, CA Technologies. "These new app architectures create
blind-spots or worse, a surge of false alarms that prevent teams from
fixing problems quickly. CA Technologies unique approach to container
monitoring delivers full visibility in these most dynamic environments."
Despite
their benefits, containerized application environments have created
exponential complexity in cloud-based application management and
monitoring. Key container challenges and trends identified in the new
survey include:
- Docker popularity is rising. But more than 50 percent of organizations surveyed say their use of Docker container technology is "just getting started."
- App development and testing is the primary Docker use case. Most
executives surveyed said they use Docker container technology for
application development and testing (61 percent) and to reduce their
existing infrastructure (53 percent).
- Docker provides the most value when it comes to continuous delivery, scalability and resource efficiency. More
than half of executives indicated that Docker containers provide
continuation integration and delivery (58 percent), scalability (57
percent) and resource efficiency (53 percent).
- The skills gap is biggest in Docker monitoring, according to respondents (48 percent) .
- The business impact of Docker container performance is largely unmeasured today. More
than half of executives (56 percent) said they are not monitoring
Docker container performance problems for business impact yet.
- Complete visibility of container performance is the biggest motivator for organizations, according to 56 percent of executives.
Container monitoring has
become an essential application performance management tool for DevOps
to rapidly develop and deploy innovative, cloud-based applications.
However, as Docker and other container adoption continues to expand, so
do the challenges around it.
To address the monitoring challenges associated with next-generation container environments, CA Application Performance Management (CA APM),
is a robust solution that combines agentless metric collection at a
cluster level with a Docker flow mapping service. CA APM surfaces
important service-level metrics in the context of dynamic microservice
relationships and container dependencies that typify distributed
application architectures.
Also announced today is the release of a new eBook, "Container Monitoring and Management," developed in partnership with CA Press and The New Stack.