AppDynamics announced the Spring 2014 Release of its technology and market leading application performance management solution.
The company’s Spring 2014 Release includes enhanced support for apps built in Java, .Net and PHP. Also provided is new support for apps built in Node.JS and Scala, two fast-growing and popular languages for building modern, responsive apps.
The company also announced a new version of its solution to manage and improve the performance of iOS and Android mobile apps.
The extensive new capabilities allow organizations to proactively monitor, manage and analyse the most complex software environments. All of this happens in real time, in production, giving increased visibility, understanding, and control across applications, infrastructure and user experience. By eliminating blind spots, IT can resolve issues faster reducing downtime costs.
“With our Spring 2014 Release, we are providing organizations enterprise-wide visibility into the performance and behavior of the applications that drive their software-defined business,” said Jyoti Bansal, founder and CEO of AppDynamics. “Once again, we are innovating with a new and enhanced set of capabilities that apply intelligence to instantly identify performance bottlenecks, anomalies, enable automatic fixes and continuously measure business impact. We do this in real time, in production, with cloud or on-premise deployment flexibility. This goes way beyond monitoring—it’s true application intelligence.”
AppDynamics’ Spring 2014 Release includes new support for NoSQL Big Data stores including MongoDB and Hadoop, Couchbase and Cassandra through its Extensible API framework. NoSQL databases are growing in popularity because they allow for design simplicity, horizontal scaling and greater control over availability. Considered “next generation” databases, they allow critical operations to be performed faster and are increasingly being adopted by big data and real-time web applications.
New and expanded features of the AppDynamics Spring 2014 Release include:
- Expanded support for the Java ecosystem including support for the Scala language and the Typesafe Reactive Platform
- Best in class support for .Net with support for MVC5 and RabbitMQ and better Azure integration
- Improved application, tier and transaction flow mapping
- Improved support for java/.net async calls with waterfall timeline visualization
- Best in class support for PHP with distributed transaction tracing, CLI (command line interface), and support for Redis/RabbitMQ
- Support for Node.js
- Redesigned end user experience dashboard with more granular client metrics
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