What tools are commonly used for application performance monitoring?
Infrastructure and Server Monitoring Tools
- Track resource usage such as CPU, memory, disk, and network throughput.
- Monitor uptime and availability of servers hosting the application.
- Provide real-time and historical data for infrastructure performance.
- Enable alerting for thresholds like high resource consumption.
- Integrate with logs and dashboards for full-stack visibility.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Platforms
- Offer end-to-end visibility of application response times and transactions.
- Trace application requests across services, APIs, and databases.
- Identify slow code paths, failed dependencies, or unresponsive modules.
- Correlate user actions with backend processing delays.
- Visualize metrics by service, endpoint, or user session.
Log Management and Analysis Tools
- Aggregate logs from application components into centralized dashboards.
- Help identify errors, warnings, and anomalies through log patterns.
- Enable real-time search and filtering of logs for troubleshooting.
- Support structured data parsing to extract performance insights.
- Provide retention and audit trails for maintenance tracking.
User Experience and Frontend Monitoring
- Measure load times, rendering delays, and script failures on the client side.
- Capture metrics like first contentful paint and time to interactive.
- Monitor user interactions for behavioral trends and experience bottlenecks.
- Provide session recordings or heatmaps to analyze usage flow.
- Detect browser-specific issues affecting performance or functionality.
Alerting and Incident Response Systems
- Notify teams of abnormal behavior based on defined thresholds.
- Integrate with email, messaging, or incident management platforms.
- Enable escalation paths based on severity and duration of performance issues.
- Track response times and resolution metrics for performance-related incidents.
- Support automation of corrective actions or rollback procedures.
