APM solutions abound. Some strong in cloud, others in on-prem. Some offer slick visualization, others masses of feature function. Some providing an excellent eagle-eye view, and others offering exceptional drill-down functionality. But there is no "best of all worlds" - there are major gaps in each offering. The only solution appears to be a mix and match of unintegrated products, often from a variety of vendors.
And so, I've come up with a wish-list of features that I would like to see in a true best-in-class APM solution:
- Manages performance, availability, and capacity for complex application infrastructures.
- Gives visibility, control, and automation for mission-critical applications.
- Performs equally well in on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments.
- Manages mobile applications.
- Deep-dive diagnostics.
- Intuitive user interface, offering a single point of entry.
Modular design and extensibility.
- Flexible deployment options.
- Quick time to value.
- Ability to monitor the latest platforms - Ruby, MongoDB ...
... and a partridge in a pear tree.
Jim Young is Information Development Manager, IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure