Navigating APMdigest
The following is a guide to navigating APMdigest and finding content.
Types of Content
APMdigest offers the following types of content:
The APM Blog: an APMdigest blog featuring content from non-vendor industry experts, such as analysts and consultants.
Vendor Forum: an APMdigest blog featuring content from technology vendors in APM and a variety of related technology markets.
Features: content not attributed to specific bloggers, such as lists covering predictions and other hot topics.
APM Buyers Guide: a microsite within APMdigest, providing a directory of vendors in APM, Observability, AIOps, EUEM, ITOA, NPM and related markets.
Industry News: news from APM and related markets, including new product releases and other vendor announcements.
White Papers: downloads of white papers, eBooks, reports and other APM-related documentation supplied by APMdigest sponsors for the IT community.
Webinars: upcoming and on-demand webinars supplied by APMdigest sponsors to educate the IT community on a variety of APM-related topics and products.
Videos: short videos under 5 minutes, supplied by APMdigest sponsors to educate the IT community on a variety of APM-related topics and products.
Free Tools: downloads of free tools and free trials supplied by APMdigest sponsors.
Editor Blog: Pete Goldin's blog covering news about the APMdigest and APM Buyers Guide websites such as new sponsors, new bloggers and new features of the sites.
Finding Content
Content on APMdigest can be found in multiple ways. First, the latest posts of any type of content can all be found on the home page. The center column includes all recent Features, APM Blogs and Vendor Forum Blogs. All recent posts to The APM Blog, Vendor Forum, Industry News and Editor Blog can also be found on the home page in the right column.
Links to upcoming webinars and recent on-demand webinars, white papers, reports and eBooks can be found in the left column on every page of the site. Links to videos can be found in the right column on the home page.
Content can also be found on pages for each content type, accessed via the top navigation bar. Content types available via the top nav bar include:
■ Features
■ APM Blog (tab = Blog)
■ Vendor Forum (tab = Forum)
■ Industry News (tab = News)
■ White Papers (tab = Papers)
■ Webinars
■ Videos
■ Free Tools (tab = Tools)
■ APM Buyers Guide (tab = Buyers Guide)
The Editor Blog is not included on the top nav bar, but a link to the Editor Blog can be found on every page on the bottom of the right column.
The latest list of Industry News posts is towards the top of the right column on the home page. A complete list of Industry News can still be found on the Industry News page, accessible under the "News" tab on the top nav bar.
The Latest
A list called "The Latest" can be found on many pages, either in the center under the main content of that page, or on the bottom of the left column. The Latest includes the most recent features and blogs (APM Blog and Vendor Forum) that have posted to APMdigest. The Latest does not include new Industry News, White Papers, Webinars, Free Tools, Editor Blogs or any new content posted to the APM Buyers Guide.
Hot Topics
APMdigest provides "Hot Topics" pages that include every feature and blog posted on APMdigest about that particular topic. Industry news, webinars, white papers and free tools are not listed on the Hot Topics pages.
Links to all the Hot Topics can be found on every page, towards the bottom of the right column.
The Latest
UK IT leaders are reaching a critical inflection point in how they manage observability, according to research from LogicMonitor. As infrastructure complexity grows and AI adoption accelerates, fragmented monitoring environments are driving organizations to rethink their operational strategies and consolidate tools ...
For years, many infrastructure teams treated the edge as a deployment variation. It was seen as the same cloud model, only stretched outward: more devices, more gateways, more locations and a little more latency. That assumption is proving costly. The edge is not just another place to run workloads. It is a fundamentally different operating condition ...
AI can't fix broken data. CIOs who modernize revenue data governance unlock predictable growth-those who don't risk millions in failed AI investments. For decades, CIOs kept the lights on. Revenue was someone else's problem, owned by sales, led by the CRO, measured by finance. Those days are behind us ...
Over the past few years, organizations have made enormous strides in enabling remote and hybrid work. But the foundational technologies powering today's digital workplace were never designed for the volume, velocity, and complexity that is coming next. By 2026 and beyond, three forces — 5G, the metaverse, and edge AI — will fundamentally reshape how people connect, collaborate, and access enterprise resources ... The businesses that begin preparing now will gain a competitive head start. Those that wait will find themselves trying to secure environments that have already outgrown their architecture ...
Ask where enterprise AI is making its most decisive impact, and the answer might surprise you: not marketing, not finance, not customer experience. It's IT. Across three years of industry research conducted by Digitate, one constant holds true is that IT is both the testing ground and the proving ground for enterprise AI. Last year, that position only strengthened ...
A payment gateway fails at 2 AM. Thousands of transactions hang in limbo. Post-mortems reveal failures cascading across dozens of services, each technically sound in isolation. The diagnosis takes hours. The fix requires coordinated deployments across teams ...
Every enterprise technology conversation right now circles back to AI agents. And for once, the excitement isn't running too far ahead of reality. According to a Zapier survey of over 500 enterprise leaders, 72% of enterprises are already using or testing AI agents, and 84% plan to increase their investment over the next 12 months. Those numbers are big. But they also raise a question that doesn't get asked enough: what exactly are companies doing with these agents, and are they actually getting value from them? ...
Many organizations still rely on reactive availability models, taking action only after an outage occurs. However, as applications become more complex, this approach often leads to delayed detection, prolonged disruption, and incomplete recovery. Monitoring is evolving from a basic operational function into a foundational capability for sustaining availability in modern environments ...
In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 22, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA discusses DNS Security ...
The financial stakes of extended service disruption has made operational resilience a top priority, according to 2026 State of AI-First Operations Report, a report from PagerDuty. According to survey findings, 95% of respondents believe their leadership understands the competitive advantage that can be gained from reducing incidents and speeding recovery ...