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Apica Platform Combines Active Monitoring and Load Testing

Apica Systems announced the Apica Service-level Assurance Platform that combines active monitoring and load testing to ensure the health and performance of all applications.

Monitoring teams can now ensure all business-critical applications and transactions are secure and available, including cloud, container and on-premises legacy solutions. The result is an early warning and detection system that closes the visibility gaps in end-user monitoring while eliminating revenue loss and increasing customer and employee satisfaction.

“We have a unique place in the market as we help customers integrate both load testing and active monitoring into the end-user journeys and their mission-critical applications,” said Peter Tollgard, CEO of Apica. “Our highly extensible platform enhances the customer experience by finding problems before their users do.”

Apica’s platform delivers service-level assurance, guaranteeing successful business outcomes on all fronts–from the employee perspective to the customer outcome–across your SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs. The platform provides monitoring with checks on tasks regardless of location, device, app, authentication, or scale. Apica’s platform will enhance your existing monitoring investments to mirror your employees’ and customers’ user experience.

Additionally, the platform includes robust integration with existing APM, AIOps, monitoring systems and highly secure MFA solutions. And because of the Apica Data Repository can be used where the script execution requires dynamic data, like feeding script with credentials, feeding script with security tokens, sharing data across different micro services scripts in the same application and so on. Resulting in customers saving time and money.

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Apica Platform Combines Active Monitoring and Load Testing

Apica Systems announced the Apica Service-level Assurance Platform that combines active monitoring and load testing to ensure the health and performance of all applications.

Monitoring teams can now ensure all business-critical applications and transactions are secure and available, including cloud, container and on-premises legacy solutions. The result is an early warning and detection system that closes the visibility gaps in end-user monitoring while eliminating revenue loss and increasing customer and employee satisfaction.

“We have a unique place in the market as we help customers integrate both load testing and active monitoring into the end-user journeys and their mission-critical applications,” said Peter Tollgard, CEO of Apica. “Our highly extensible platform enhances the customer experience by finding problems before their users do.”

Apica’s platform delivers service-level assurance, guaranteeing successful business outcomes on all fronts–from the employee perspective to the customer outcome–across your SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs. The platform provides monitoring with checks on tasks regardless of location, device, app, authentication, or scale. Apica’s platform will enhance your existing monitoring investments to mirror your employees’ and customers’ user experience.

Additionally, the platform includes robust integration with existing APM, AIOps, monitoring systems and highly secure MFA solutions. And because of the Apica Data Repository can be used where the script execution requires dynamic data, like feeding script with credentials, feeding script with security tokens, sharing data across different micro services scripts in the same application and so on. Resulting in customers saving time and money.

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For years, DevOps teams operated under a simple assumption: collect enough telemetry, and you can find and fix any problem. That assumption is breaking down. Modern enterprises now operate across microservices, hybrid cloud environments, APIs, Kubernetes, and highly automated delivery pipelines. Releases happen continuously, dependencies shift constantly, and failures spread faster than teams can diagnose them ...

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