Redefining APM: Moving from Monitoring to Management

Introduction 

Application Performance Management (APM) has become a crucial practice in modern software development and operations. Traditionally, APM has been synonymous with monitoring—keeping a vigilant eye on system performance metrics and reacting to deviations. However, as technology landscapes evolve and demands on applications grow more complex, the role of APM is also evolving. In today’s digital age, APM is not just about monitoring; it’s about proactive management and optimization. Let’s explore how this shift from monitoring to management is redefining APM.
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The Future of APM: AIOps Ecosystems

The Future of APM
The future of Application Performance Monitoring (Application Performance Management or APM) will be closely connected to the growth of Artificial Intelligence in handling IT tasks (AIOps).  This means that APM tools will increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to monitor and improve the performance of software applications. AIOps is a revolutionary approach to managing and optimizing the performance of applications, networks, and IT infrastructures. APM is more than just monitoring; it’s about leveraging AI and automation to make proactive decisions and streamline operations.
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NetDiagnostics – Next Generation End-to-End Observability Solution

NetDiagnostics - Next Generation End-to-End

Introduction of NetDiagnostics: 

NetDiagnostics is a next generation application performance monitoring (APM) tool developed by Cavisson Systems. Built to assist organizations in identifying the “why” behind application or system level issues, NetDiagnostics provides end-to-end observability by combining application, infrastructure, log and user monitoring in a single platform.

This approach not only eliminates the need to have multiple solutions for monitoring different components of your application landscape but provides context based information by combining varied data sources to assist your teams in drastically reducing the mean time to detect (MTTD).

Combined with NetDiagnostics’ advanced automatic root cause analysis or AutoRCA capabilities, teams are equipped to drill down to accurate root cause thereby also reducing the mean time to resolution (MTTR).

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How Performance Testing will evolve in 2024

How Performance Testing will evolve in 2024

Revolutionizing Performance Testing: Embracing Change in 2024

As we step into 2024, the dynamism of the digital world continues to shape the way applications are developed, deployed, and maintained. This blog explores the key trends, challenges, and transformations that are redefining performance testing in 2024, paving the way for more efficient, accurate, and future-ready testing practices. A performance test examines an application’s ability, speed, scalability, and responsiveness under a specific amount of load. It is also known as load testing. For performance testing, there are several objectives: computing processing speed, analyzing application throughput, network consumption, data transfer velocity, maximum concurrent transfers, workload efficiency, memory usage, etc. Performance testing is regarded as a subset of performance engineering. Engineers can deliver code with confidence by performance testing applications. Because of this, developers and QA devote a great deal of time and resources to testing their code. Testing isn’t an isolated activity. It adapts to engineering needs. Testing shifted away from the Center of Excellence with the move from waterfall development to agile delivery. To improve efficiency and increase coverage, test automation was introduced. As the need to democratize testing grew, open-source testing projects flourished. Testing practices need to change with the changes in modern development and the digital transformation enterprises are experiencing, from legacy systems to cloud-native microservices. Other trends and global changes – such as privacy regulations, cybersecurity threats, the digitization of customer and supply-chain interactions, and increased leadership attention to digital infrastructure – also have an impact on testing methods.
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What do we mean by 360-degree API Testing and Monitoring?

What do we mean by 360-degree API Testing and
In the past, testing was done only at the GUI level and at the end of the development process. When a developer finished their work, they handed it over to the quality assurance team. Because the engineers were short on time, they decided to test the code at the highest level possible: the GUI. Testing at a ground level, such as the API level, is required in the Agile era. Even developers can do it on their own. API testing can even be done before development is finished, thanks to “API contracts.”  This means that developers can use pre-written tests to validate their code.
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QA Checklist for Black Friday

Black Friday is approaching quickly. Expect high volumes of digital shopping and high stakes for delivering exceptional shopping experiences in the coming year. This checklist provides an overview of the most important processes that your team should test in order to prepare your application. You can avoid outages, angry tweets, and thousands of dollars in potential revenue by using this checklist.
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Unleashing the Power of Real Device Testing (RDT)

Introduction:-

In today’s fast-paced digital world, where mobile apps and websites play a crucial role in connecting businesses with their customers, the importance of thorough testing cannot be overstated. As consumers’ expectations for seamless and high-quality user experiences continue to rise, developers and quality assurance teams are faced with the daunting task of ensuring their applications work flawlessly on a wide array of devices and in real-world scenarios.
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DevOps Best Practices To Ensure Successful Testing

Introduction

DevOps is best defined as a business effort to improve communication and collaboration between development and operations teams, in order to increase software deployment quality and speed. There are profound implications for teams and the organizations they work for with this new way of working. From 2020 to 2027, the global DevOps market is expected to grow at a healthy CAGR of 22.9%. The reason this software development and delivery model has such a bright future is that it has already achieved impressive results for CTOs worldwide. Using DevOps, development and operations teams will no longer be siloed in order to enhance their collaboration. DevOps provides many business and technological advantages. For example, it can shorten development cycles, increase deployment speed, reduce time to market, and more. However, implementing DevOps requires an organizational-wide cultural shift. For a smooth transition to DevOps over time, here are some tips and principles you can follow. The true value of DevOps and testing Professionals lies in identifying issues in production & pre-production to reduce IT downtime, increase business revenue, and uncover insights that lead to a greater customer experience. Because in the end, that is how your customers & users remember you, by their online experience. Derive everyday value from your application’s monitoring via Cavisson’s unified APM solution.
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Mastering Application Load Management by Performance Engineering

Mastering Application Load Management by Performance Engineering

Introduction

It is impossible to know how your system will perform when faced with expected or unexpected demands without comprehensive performance testing, which includes both load and stress testing. The best way to understand how components of a system behave under a given situation is to ensure an exhaustive test coverage covering all aspects of application performance under varying loads and scenarios is designed to test your applications thoroughly.

To establish the benchmark behavior of your application ecosystem, you must test the performance of your application and its underlying dependencies and infrastructure. In performance testing, you aim to meet or exceed a number of industry-defined benchmarks.

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