SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable
IT management software, announced the APM Integrated
Experience for the SolarWinds application performance management (APM)
solutions-AppOptics, Loggly and Pingdom-consolidating
access to application performance metrics, traces, logs, and user experience into
a common navigation experience for technology professionals. The new APM
Integrated Experience helps reduce much of the complexity associated with
modern APM by streamlining visibility into critical application and
infrastructure performance and empowering tech pros with faster, easier
troubleshooting.
APM continues to prove business
critical for organizations across verticals. The SolarWinds
IT Trends Report 2020: The Universal Language of IT found over half of surveyed IT teams (60%) are spending
more time managing apps and services, and more teams are managing them in
hybrid IT environments (74% of respondents manage hybrid IT in-house or with an
MSP). This trend has only accelerated as organizations manage the reality of
remote and distributed workforces.
"As the personas using APM
continue to expand to include developers, support teams, product managers,
infrastructure teams, and more, there is a need for an APM solution that caters
to these broader audiences and brings together all the data necessary to
understand and validate application performance," said Denny LeCompte, senior
vice president, products, SolarWinds. "Through the APM Integrated Experience,
we are maximizing customers' observability and ease of use. This convergence
reflects our commitments to making tech pros' lives easier and to broadening
APM access for tech pros everywhere."
"The market needs solutions
that take a holistic approach to application performance metrics," said Stephen
Elliot, IDC Program Vice President, I&O, DevOps, and Cloud Operations.
"Moves towards convergence and ease of use best serve today's APM landscape."
The APM Integrated Experience delivers
a single platform for common navigation across the APM portfolio to deepen the
user's knowledge of an application's health and performance. Consolidating
metrics, traces, logs, and user experience in a single, seamless interface
enables tech pros to find what they need quickly and achieve a faster mean time
to resolution (MTTR).
The navigation enhancements
include:
- Home: A new landing page with a
high-level view of what's changed in the last week and what could be an
issue
- Dashboards: Dashboards for both metrics
and logs
- Services: Code-level APM data
containing maps, summary views and detailed distributed traces
- Infrastructure: Lists and maps for hosts and
containers, plugins for web servers and databases, and direct integrations
for AWS and Azure
- Logs: Advanced searching
capabilities on structured logs and the Dynamic Field Explorer
- Metrics: Explore and alert on thousands
out-of-the-box and custom metrics helpful for understanding
infrastructure and application health, and rapid troubleshooting
- Real User Monitoring: Gain
visibility into how actual end users are interacting with and experiencing
your website with scalable and easy-to-use real user monitoring
(RUM)
- Synthetic Monitoring: Simulate
visitor interactions with your site or web app to know when critical pages
or site flows stop working correctly
The APM Integrated Experience
is designed for hybrid and cloud-native IT environments to help identify
performance anomalies, understand dependencies, trace requests, and pinpoint
the root cause of issues. Users can isolate logs to a specific transaction,
identify impacted systems, and view events in context to accelerate
troubleshooting and recognize issues before there is a service disruption.
SolarWinds was recognized in the April 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring based on the completeness of vision and ability to execute
for its APM suite of products.
AppOptics, Loggly, and Pingdom
can be used individually or as an integrated platform to deliver full-stack
performance monitoring across user experience, applications, services, and
infrastructure. Existing users of any of the APM products can activate the new
experience in the platform. Those who are not yet using SolarWinds monitoring
products and would like to learn more can schedule a demo.