SolarWinds, a leading provider of
powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced
SolarWinds AppOptics Dev Edition, a free version of its
award-winning SaaS infrastructure and application performance management (APM)
solution,
AppOptics-part
of the
SolarWinds
APM Suite. AppOptics Dev Edition offers the same rich features of
the full AppOptics solution in a scaled-back version well-suited for
development environments, enabling technology professionals at any stage in the
APM journey to test, optimize, and troubleshoot business applications before
they go live in production operations.
According to the Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring, enterprises will quadruple their use of
APM functionality through 2021 to cover the increasing demand for digitized
business capabilities. They expect APM suites will cover 20 percent of all
business applications by this time.
"The need to manage custom business applications
is on the rise, placing new pressures on tech pros to monitor the performance
and availability of apps in hybrid and cloud-native environments. SolarWinds is
helping tech pros ease this burden and overcome the cost and complexity
traditionally associated with most APM tools available on the market by
offering free access to its AppOptics APM features and functionality," said
Denny LeCompte, senior vice president and general manager, application
management, SolarWinds. "Whether a tech pro is just getting started with APM or
if they're looking for a means to test and troubleshoot apps before production,
the AppOptics Dev Edition provides real value for a variety of business
application use cases."
Designed to deliver end-to-end visibility down to
the transaction level, AppOptics helps users prove where and when end-user
experiences do not meet intended-for service levels through performance
information for each element of a request, providing insight into the root
cause of performance bottlenecks. AppOptics supports custom applications in
hybrid and cloud-native environments with broad language support (.Net, Java,
PHP, Python, Scala, Node.js, Go, and Ruby).
AppOptics Dev Edition highlights include:
● Comprehensive troubleshooting: Combine distributed
tracing, live code profiling, and exception tracking to quickly identify
performance issues down to the line of code. In addition, with automated log
context tracking, tech pros can view the logs related to a particular trace to
get full understanding of an issue.
● Infrastructure monitoring: Measure
infrastructure, application, and business performance-from custom on-premises
to highly distributed cloud applications-by incorporating metrics that matter
most to assessing infrastructure impact.
● Dev environment focus: Determine if the application in
development has the appropriate host and/or container resources to support your
application before going live. Quickly recognize if you have exceeded
thresholds that could be impacting application availability and performance
using color-coded heatmaps that provide visualizations of hosts and containers,
as well as comprehensive alerting on key resource and performance metrics
across the stack.
AppOptics Dev Edition comes with up to five traces
per minute, 100 metrics, three hosts, and six containers.