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Dynatrace provides software intelligence to simplify cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation. With automatic and intelligent observability at scale, our all-in-one platform delivers precise answers about the performance of applications, the underlying infrastructure and the experience of all users to enable organizations to innovate faster, collaborate more efficiently, and deliver more value with dramatically less effort. That’s why many of the world’s largest enterprises trust … Show More Read Dynatrace ReviewsAIThe installation of thé product (saas mode here) Wow , the oneagent makes it so easy and most of the things works out of the box. Everything is… Read review

Brilliant Application Performance Monitoring Solution: Dynatrace is currently being used as our main driving force for solving problems in the… Read review Compare AppDynamics(351)4.3 out of 5Entry Level Price:Start a free trialFavorite
Powered by Cisco, AppDynamics is on a mission to help companies see their technology through the lens of the business so they can work as one to prioritize what matters most. We’re reinventing the observability space and simplifying the challenge of digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises. In this era of unprecedented digital growth, the AppDynamics Business Observability Platform transforms organizations faster by providing business context deep into the technology stack, a… Show More Read AppDynamics ReviewsALEasy to use, App Dynamics helps me to monitor my web services. Various applications real-time communication. It has email alerts. Read reviewALMonitoring Servers, Database management, Alerts makes it easy to handle tasks, We can monitor the transactions easily. Read review Compare Learn moreG2 DealsBuying software just got smarter. And cheaper.
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New Relic is the industry’s largest and most comprehensive cloud-based observability platform built to create more perfect software. From the beginning, New Relic’s ambition has driven the company to instrument more of the digital world than anyone else. The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. New Relic One is the industry’s first observability platform that is open, connected, and programma… Show More Read New Relic One ReviewsDWHas support for monitoring the software and databases that we use. Read reviewIFThe way that organizes and the new dashboards this allows a lot of flexibility for support people Read review Compare Datadog(245)4.3 out of 5Entry Level Price:$0 Per host, per monthFavorite
Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. The SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers’ entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration… Show More Read Datadog Reviews

At first, Datadog may seem like a complex product, but you can get use to it with practice. When you get to know it enough, it will provide you… Read review

It has enough features for monitoring, easy to use, good manuals, price-worthy. Read review Compare Instabug(195)4.3 out of 5Entry Level Price:FreeFavorite
Our triple threat of APM, Crash Reporting, and Bug Reporting tools will help optimize your app’s performance and deliver the high-quality experience your users expect and deserve. Instabug’s SDK empowers over 2B mobile developers to uncover, analyze and fix any app performance, quality, or stability issues by grabbing all the logs causing crashes, and performance issues. Our enterprise-grade dashboard gives you easy access to screenshots, device details, network logs, repro steps, and tons of … Show More Read Instabug ReviewsAHIts incredible the amount of information you can get to help diagnose the problem. Having instant access means a better user experience for the… Read reviewACFree trial, very friendly support team 🙂 In-App surveys work good. But we haven’t use other services yet. Read review Compare Sumo Logic(248)4.3 out of 5Entry Level Price:FreeFavorite
Sumo Logic is the pioneer of continuous intelligence, a new category of software, which enables organizations of all sizes to address the data challenges and opportunities presented by digital transformation, modern applications and cloud computing. The Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ automates the collection, ingestion and analysis of application, infrastructure, security and IoT data to derive actionable insights within seconds. More than 2,000 customers around the world rely on … Show More Read Sumo Logic ReviewsUCI like its advanced technology that makes it easier to manage cloud infrastructures. Makes maintenance operations easier, and of course, also… Read reviewUCIt has a clear and organized interface, is easy to implement and also integrates with AWS and Microsoft Azure. I like it because it increases the… Read review Compare Learn moreLogRocket(319)4.7 out of 5Favorite
LogRocket combines session replay, performance monitoring, and product analytics – empowering software teams to create the ideal product experience.Read LogRocket ReviewsEHAsking questions and hearing through other people how users interact with our product is not enough. As we continue to work on our product, we love… Read reviewUCGreat performance and reliability, free quotas, simple to use interface, great features Read review Compare Progress WhatsUp Gold(151)4.4 out of 5Optimized for quick responseFree trial availableFavorite
Progress WhatsUp Gold lets you find and fix network problems fast – usually before end users notice which is the holy grail of IT. Its unique, interactive mapping interface lets you intuitively see up/down availability and performance at-a-glance for everything connected to your network. Easily customizable drag & drop dashboards make it easy to see the detailed status and performance of every device both on-premise and in the cloud.Read Progress WhatsUp Gold Reviews

We have been using What’s Up Gold for many years, and it is always reliable, simple to use, and receives regular product feature updates at no… Read reviewAWManageability and functionality of modules. Read review Compare LogicMonitor(394)4.5 out of 5Optimized for quick responseFavorite
Monitoring is an essential tool that can unlock new pathways to growth. At LogicMonitor, we expand what’s possible for businesses by advancing the technology behind them. We seamlessly monitor infrastructures, empowering companies to focus less on problem solving and more on evolution. We turn on a complete view in minutes, turn the dial from maintenance to innovation and turn the corner from sight to vision. Join us in shaping the information revolution. Specialties: network monitoring, serv… Show More Read LogicMonitor Reviews

Easy to use interface and yet very powerful. Able to configure very detailed monitor types. lot of different options for monitors and log parsing…. Read reviewJHAlerting is fantastic; this product has many great features built-in out of the box, but you can customize it so many ways as well. Dashboards… Read review Compare Instana(115)4.6 out of 5Optimized for quick responseEntry Level Price:$75 per host/per month/billed annuallyFavorite
Instana’s Enterprise Observability Platform, powered by automated Application Performance Monitoring, discovers and maps all services, infrastructure, and their inter-dependencies automatically. Instana ingests all observability metrics, traces each request, profiles every process, and updates application dependency maps in real-time to deliver the context and actionable feedback needed by Dev+Ops to optimize application performance, enable innovation and mitigate risk to help them add value an… Show More Read Instana ReviewsSDThe easy with which alerts can be configured is outstanding. The fact that the alerts can be channelized to multiple delivery channels is very… Read reviewCIIts intricate details. It has all the features one should have in a monitoring tool. Read review Compare FusionReactor APM(116)4.7 out of 5Entry Level Price:$19 MonthFavorite
FusionReactor allows you to quickly find bottlenecks in your code and in your database; making your Java or ColdFusion application run faster and more efficiently. The integrated production safe debugger helps you to quickly find bugs & alleviate technical debt allowing you more time to write better code. FusionReactor continually monitors your app and your database so when an error fires the automatic root cause analysis will trigger and you will be immediately sent details of where th… Show More Read FusionReactor APM ReviewsIFFusionReactor is THE tool to monitor and tune your ColdFusion or Lucee environment. I’ve been using it for around 5 years now, and won’t commission… Read reviewLJFusionReactor gives us total and complete visibility into the inner functioning of ColdFusion, allowing us to analyze problems of all types. This… Read review Compare Zabbix(139)4.2 out of 5Favorite
Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices, services and other IT resources. Zabbix is an all-in-one monitoring solution that allows users to collect, store, manage and analyze information received from IT infrastructure, as well as display on-screen, and alert by e-mail, SMS or Jabber when thresholds are reached. Zabbix allows administrators to recognize server and device pro… Show More Read Zabbix Reviews

I love that Zabbix is free and open source! Zabbix was built on server technologies that have been around for a long time and that almost any web… Read review

It is an advanced network monitoring tool. It can be used and customized to fit anyone’s needs. Best of all, it doesn’t cost a cent to use unless… Read review Compare Learn moreEpsagon(65)4.7 out of 5Entry Level Price:$0 Up to 1K traces/month freeFavorite
Epsagon enables teams to instantly visualize, understand and optimize their microservice architectures. With our unique lightweight auto-instrumentation, gaps in data and manual work associated with other APM solutions are eliminated, providing significant reductions in issue detection, root cause analysis and resolution times. Increase development velocity and reduce application downtime with Epsagon.Read Epsagon ReviewsUGEasily see Lambda invocations, status, memory, time etc. Easily see logs and (if trace limit not run out) who called Lambdas. Link to AWS Lambda is… Read reviewUIWe enjoy the support Epsagon has for lambda functions. Read review Compare Scout APM(58)4.6 out of 5Entry Level Price:$129/mo Up to 167k transactions/dayFavorite
Scout APM is application performance monitoring that streamlines troubleshooting by helping developers find and fix performance issues before customers ever see them. With real-time alerting, a developer-centric UI, and tracing logic that ties bottlenecks directly to source code, Scout APM helps you spend less time debugging and more time building a great product. Quickly identify, prioritize, and resolve performance problems – memory bloat, N+1 queries, slow database queries, and more – with … Show More Read Scout APM Reviews

Most APMs nominally support Rails. Not Scout. The autoinstrumentation showing exactly, line-by-line where slowdown is happening is… Read review

Ease of use, connection, no bullshit approach Read review Compare Veeam ONE(144)4.6 out of 5Favorite
Veeam ONE, part of Veeam Availability Suite, provides a comprehensive monitoring and analytics solution for backup, virtual and physical environments. With support for Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Agents, as well as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV, Veeam ONE delivers deep, intelligent monitoring, reporting, and automation through interactive tools and intelligent learning, identifying and resolving real customer problems before they begin: • Monitoring & Repor… Show More Read Veeam ONE ReviewsEBbacking up and restoring is a breeze when using it. Read reviewAMSeamless deployment to a variety of virtual servers and hosts. Are environment between two companies includes VMWare, Hyper-V and a few physical… Read review Compare Learn morePRTG Network Monitor(67)4.6 out of 5Entry Level Price:$1,750 About 50 devices /perpetual licenseFavorite
PRTG Network Monitor is a real-time unified infrastructure monitoring solution that enables IT Pros to locate problems throughout thier entire network and resolve them before they escalate and become business critical. PRTG monitors all systems, devices, traffic and applications of your IT infrastructure using these technologies: SNMP: ready to use and custom options WMI and Windows Performance Counters SSH: for Linux/Unix and MacOS systems Flows and Packet Sniffing HTTP requests REST APIs r… Show More Read PRTG Network Monitor ReviewsHRUpgrading the software is extremely easy. There is no need to do any command line it is all downloaded and installed locally with the PRTG upgrade… Read reviewJSPRTG has been instrumental in allowing us to setup real time active monitoring of all web servers and continually evaluate resource management and… Read review Compare Learn moreRetrace(54)4.2 out of 5Optimized for quick responseEntry Level Price:$99 Unlimited users; billed monthly (annual pricing available)Favorite
After one too many unexpected late night code fires, we went searching for a set of application performance management tools to help us put an end to it. What we found told us what was broken, but lacked the ability to tell us why our applications failed, or how to maintain them and prevent the potential dumpster fire. So, we built Retrace to do exactly that. From pre-production to deployment, it is our belief that when our 1300+ customers spend less time fighting technology they spend more tim… Show More Read Retrace ReviewsACI like the prefetch feature for developers allows the dev team to be involved earlier in the process of mitigating production defects. Read reviewRGAwesome Product, great dashboard having great features with minimal price. Read review Compare Learn moreNagios XI(45)4.6 out of 5Favorite
Nagios XI is a enterprise Server and Network Monitoring Softwareit helps company by comprehensive applications, services, and network monitoring in a central solution.Read Nagios XI ReviewsPKEssential tool for monitoring purpose. All the required details for any particular alert is visible on the main screen itself. Not required to go… Read review

Nagios XI can integrate unlimited hosts into one single dashboard and no any restrictions for adding network or server devices. devices can be… Read review Compare Learn moreLumigo(36)4.7 out of 5Entry Level Price:0$ 150K traced invocations per monthFavorite
Lumigo is the leading serverless Application Performance Monitoring platform. With one-click distributed tracing, Lumigo lets developers effortlessly find and fix issues in a serverless and microservices environments. Visual Debugging – Lumigo builds a virtual stack trace of all services participating in the transaction, including input/output per service, HTTP calls, and env variables — and everything is searchable! Even in large-scale systems, Lumigo filters out the noise and presents only … Show More Read Lumigo Reviews

The product team is hyper-focused on making sure you get the most out of the product. They provide a slack channel with the ability to interact… Read review

– Easy integration < 5 minutes without code refactor – Alerts that can easily integrate with major platforms like email, Slack, and Jira – Great… Read review Compare Learn moreCatchpoint(52)4.6 out of 5Favorite
Catchpoint is the enterprise-proven Digital Experience Observability industry leader, empowering teams to own the end user experience. We provide unparalleled visibility and insight into every critical system that collectively produce and deliver digital experiences to customers and employees. Industry leaders like Google, L’Oréal, Verizon, Oracle, LinkedIn, Honeywell, and Priceline trust Catchpoint’s observability platform to proactively and rapidly detect and repair problems before they impac… Show More Read Catchpoint ReviewsJMCatchpoint has more than 500 testing nodes around the world that making it a good choice for global businesses. It has a comprehensive view which… Read review

It is really easy to setup and use catchpoint. Read review Compare Learn moreRaygun(71)4.4 out of 5Entry Level Price:Starting at $8 per 10k traces, per monthFavorite
Spend more time building great software and less time fighting it. Raygun is a cloud-based platform that provides error, crash, and performance monitoring for your web and mobile applications. With Raygun’s powerful suite of tools, teams can achieve complete visibility on issues their users’ encounter, with code-level detail into root causes. Raygun’s suite of products covers three main areas, all fully integrated with each other to unlock deeply powerful insights, unlike anything your team h… Show More Read Raygun Reviews

It’s such simple to use, the results are perfectly presented and we can take immediate actions. The solution is not only an APM but a crash report… Read review

Gain actionable insights easily with the flame chart and call tree. easy integration with Jira Nice that you start with an overview dashboard and… Read review Compare Rigor(23)4.7 out of 5Favorite
Rigor helps businesses of all sizes enable fast and reliable digital experiences for their end users. With Rigor’s easy-to-use performance monitoring and optimization software, our customers are able to monitor their user’s experience throughout the development lifecycle, communicate trends to stakeholders, and take action to improve performance by leveraging our step-by-step optimization insights.Read Rigor Reviews

Rigor provides very good technology for delivering actionable information about website optimisation defects against the core requirements of… Read review Compare Learn moreRollbar(117)4.5 out of 5Optimized for quick responseEntry Level Price:FreeFavorite
Proactively discover, predict, and resolve errors in real-time with Rollbar’s continuous code improvement platform. Rollbar provides full coverage across all the applications that your users depend on and love. Automate real-time error response, ensure happier customers and more productive development teams with the help of Rollbar.Read Rollbar ReviewsUCRollbar represents the errors in a form of graphs. You can monitor the number of bug occurrence, the number of affected IPs, the severity of… Read reviewRCI like that it alerts for an error, then the 10th error, the 100th error and so on. This allows me to go from seeing an error report to knowing… Read review Compare checkmk(51)4.7 out of 5Entry Level Price:FreeFavorite
Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring system that enables system administrators, IT managers, and DevOps teams to identify issues across their entire IT infrastructure (servers, applications, networks, storage, databases) and act quickly to resolve them. More than 2,000 commercial customers and many more open source users worldwide use Checkmk daily to ensure high availability and performance. Key product features: • Service state monitoring with 2,000+ checks ‘out of the box’ • Log an… Show More Read checkmk ReviewsRA- Very fast and easy implementation – Incredible low costs – Very close communication with and fast feedback from the company behind Check_MK -… Read reviewDK- Low cost, excellent value – Great monitoring feature set – Broad range of monitoring plugins for a broad range of monitored systems – Small… Read review Compare Icinga Infrastructure Monitoring(18)4.4 out of 5Free trial availableFavorite
Company The German company Icinga GmbH is an open-source manufacturer for infrastructure monitoring. Its customers include global enterprises, many government institutions, and numerous mid-sized companies all over the world and in all verticals. The solution is open source and free to use. Our professional support via annual subscription is chargeable. Key Features and Functionality Collect data and evaluate the performance of your systems for fast troubleshooting and future-proof capacit… Show More Read Icinga Infrastructure Monitoring Reviews

It is open source and free, meaning the software is easily extendible. All Nagios plugins, as well as all the community plugins are usable with… Read review

As a free, accessible, and full open sourcing project, Icinga Monitoring offers many organizational monitoring solutions, particularly for hosts… Read review Compare Learn moreServerless360(18)4.9 out of 5Favorite
Serverless360 is one enterprise standard platform that has full potential to serve as your powerful Azure support tool. With features like Business Applications, Azure Documenter, and Business Activity Monitoring, our all-in-one tool can make operations, monitoring, and logging of your Azure applications much efficient. We empower the less experienced L1 and L2 support teams to resolve the complex technical incidents without escalating to the DevOps and Architect team. This way, you could all… Show More Read Serverless360 ReviewsAMI like the ability to see the physical representation of the entire application architecture. Seeing dependencies and their flows, while also… Read reviewULThe way in which the entire application can be monitored is of great help to mitigate errors and failures and the ease with which we can create… Read review Compare Learn moredotTrace(17)4.2 out of 5Entry Level Price:$ 399 /1st year $ 319 /2nd yearFavorite
dotTrace helps you detect performance bottlenecks in a variety of .NET and .NET Core applications: WPF and Universal Windows Platform, ASP.NET, Windows and WCF services, Silverlight and unit tests.Read dotTrace ReviewsWKLike that you can set a timeframe where you can capture what calls are made and what methods are called. It is an amazing tool for someone new to… Read reviewITEase of use and the ability to interface with current programs. Read review Compare Learn moreAirbrake(21)4.5 out of 5Entry Level Price:FreeFavorite
Deploy code fearlessly and fix bugs faster with Airbrake Error & Performance Monitoring. Airbrake notifiers are available for all major programming languages and frameworks and installs in minutes. Spend less time tracking down bugs and more time developing. Airbrake provides frictionless error monitoring and performance insight for the entire app stack. Drill down on recurring exceptions or filter by parameters, users or environment variables. Intelligent grouping and duplicate detection… Show More Read Airbrake ReviewsAK- easy to use – easy to integrate with Rails – handy grouping of errors – mobile application Read review

Airbrake sends complete bug report in email like error message, where, which file, Backtrace summary etc. Airbrake dashboard showing all same kind… Read review Compare Learn moredotMemory(15)4.6 out of 5Entry Level Price:$ 399 /1st year $ 319 /2nd yearFavorite
dotMemory allows you to analyze memory usage in a variety of .NET and .NET Core applications: desktop applications, Windows services, ASP.NET web applications, IIS, IIS Express, arbitrary .NET processes, and more.Read dotMemory ReviewsUCWhen we code there are more memory leaked opportunity. So it it the terrible thing for developers. We can analyze that using this tool. We can view… Read review

It’s an easy to use and customize tool. This application easily identifies the memory issues and leakage, pretty much helpful to eliminates errors… Read review Compare Learn moreNetreo(40)4.5 out of 5Optimized for quick responseFree trial availableFavorite
Netreo is the most comprehensive IT Operations full stack monitoring and AIOps company. We provide a single source of truth for proactive performance and availability monitoring for large enterprise networks, infrastructure, applications and business services. Our solution is used by: – IT Executives to have full visibility from the business service right down into the infrastructure and network that supports it. – IT Engineering departments as a decision support system for capacity plann… Show More Read Netreo ReviewsICSimple to use, great support, easy to integrate with other systems. Read review

It easy to find and locate the source of any issue. Rather than having several alerts all over the place, Netreo’s parent system allows us to… Read review Compare
est APM Tools In 2022
Here are the complete details of the most popular Website and Application Performance Monitoring APM Tools.
#1) Traceview
Earlier it was known as Tracelytics which was acquired by AppNeta and now it is a part of SolarWinds.
SolarWinds was found in 1999 with its headquarter in Texas, USA. More than 150 employees are working here and it has revenue of $429 million.
It is an Application Performance Monitoring tool for web applications. It provides a deep insight into the application, better end-user experience, and is a very cost-effective performance monitoring tool.
Key Features:
- Traceview supports Java, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.
- It monitors, web applications and SaaS applications.
- Traceview supports a detailed level of code-level performance monitoring.
- It fixes the problem with a real user monitoring system.
- It supports online as well as email and phone support.
=> FREE DOWNLOAD Systems Management Bundle including Web Performance Monitor=> Download Traceview Free
#2) eG Innovations

eG Innovations is an industry leader in application performance and IT infrastructure monitoring. Founded in 2001, eG Innovations has expanded its portfolio over the years to support monitoring for over 180 applications including Java, .NET, SAP, SharePoint, Office 365, and more.
Hundreds of organizations around the world use eG Innovations’ flagship application performance monitoring software, eG Enterprise, to solve their IT challenges such as slow apps, downtime, code-level errors, capacity issues, hardware faults, config changes, and so on.
eG Enterprise helps application managers, developers, DevOps, and IT Ops personnel detect the root cause of application performance issues and troubleshoot faster.
Key Features of eG Enterprise:
- Monitor the digital experience of users as they access applications and be the first to know when their user experience is affected.
- Get code-level visibility into applications using distributed transaction tracing and identify reasons for slowness: code errors, slow queries, slow remote calls, etc.
- Benefit from deep-dive performance insight into the application infrastructure: JVMs, CLRs, application servers, message queues, databases, and more.
- Auto-discover dependencies between applications and underlying IT components (network, virtualization, cloud, container, etc.) and construct topology maps.
- Isolate the root cause of performance slowdowns using built-in correlative intelligence and machine learning.
=> Visit eG Innovations Website
#3) Datadog
Datadog APM enables you to analyze and isolate dependencies, remove bottlenecks, reduce latency, track errors, and increase code efficiency to optimize your application.
Distributed traces correlate seamlessly with browser sessions, logs, profiles, synthetic tests, process-level data, and infrastructure metrics, giving you full visibility into your application’s health across all hosts, containers, proxies, and serverless functions.
Features:
- Seamlessly correlate between application performance to logs and underlying infrastructure metrics in one integrated platform.
- Tracing without Limits: Search and analyze 100% of traces (no sampling) in real-time and retain only the ones that matter to you using tag-based rules.
- Continuous Profiling: Analyze code-level performance across your entire stack with minimal overhead, identify your most resource-consuming methods (CPU, memory, etc.) using tags, and correlate it with relevant requests and traces.
- Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Synthetics: Measure and improve your front-end application performance and end-user experience in real-time or by simulating controlled browser and API tests, and tie them to relevant traces, logs, and infrastructure metrics.
- Auto-detect anomalies to surface issues and reduce alert fatigue with ML-based Watchdog.
- Navigate applications seamlessly with the Service Map and other out-of-the-box dashboards and visualizations to reduce resolution time and release features more quickly.
- With over 450+ turn-key integrations, Datadog seamlessly aggregates metrics and events across your full DevOps stack.
#4) Sematext APM
Sematext APM provides real-time end-to-end visibility into web application performance by tracing individual and business transactions to detect the slowest and under-performing parts of your application. It helps troubleshoot faster and improve user experience.
Key Features:
- See how applications interact with underlaying components, databases and external services in real-time.
- Real-time alerting helps discover anomalies before they impact the end-user.
- Get code-level visibility to pinpoint root causes for performance issues and reduce MTTR.
- Ability to track & filter database operations and slow SQL to detect the most time-consuming transactions.
- Custom pointcuts (for JVM).
- Sematext AppMap shows inter-component communication and their throughput, latency, error rates, etc.
#5) ManageEngine Applications Manager
ManageEngine Applications Manager is a comprehensive application performance monitoring software built for today’s complex, dynamic environments. It gives deep performance insight into business-critical applications – both within the data center and on the cloud. It is easy to use and can be set up in minutes.
Key Features:
- Agent-based monitoring with byte-code instrumentation and code-level diagnostics for Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, and Ruby applications.
- Synthetic transaction monitoring from multiple geographical locations for multi-page end-user workflow simulation.
- Out-of-the-box support for over a hundred applications and infrastructure elements.
- Extensively monitor hybrid cloud, virtual, and container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
- Identify and resolve the root-cause of issues faster with automated application discovery, tracing, and diagnostics (ADTD).
- Anticipate future resource utilization and growth with machine learning-enabled analytics.
Applications Manager is used by users in varied roles such as IT Operations, DBAs, DevOps engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, application developers, application owners, Cloud Ops, etc. in 5000+ businesses worldwide.=> Visit ManageEngine Applications Manager Website
#6) Site24x7
Site24x7 is a cloud monitoring tool from Zoho Corporation. Site24x7 was born from the collective expertise of Zoho, a Saas leader for business and productivity applications, and Manage Engine, a world-class IT management software suite.
With more than 10,000 plus customers worldwide, Site24x7 helps IT teams and DevOps of all shapes and sizes to troubleshoot issues across their applications and infrastructure with ease. Site24x7 APM Insight is an application performance monitoring tool, that helps you optimize your application performance in real-time.
With Site24x7 APM Insight, you can understand your application behaviour and bridge the gap between end-user experience and application performance, thereby providing a seamless digital experience for your customers.
Key features of Site24x7 APM Insight:
- Understand how your applications connect and communicate with external components
- 50+ metrics that enable you to correlate how your application performance impacts end-user experience.
- Helps you troubleshoot easily across microservices and distributed architecture with the help of distributed tracing.
- AI-powered APM tool, that enables you to proactively identify sudden spikes in your application performance.
- Monitor business-critical transactions in real-time.
- Seamless integration with Site24x7 Real User Monitoring, to obtain a holistic view of front-end and back-end performance.
Supported Platforms: Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP, and Node.js=> Visit Site24x7 Application Performance Monitoring Website
#7) New Relic
New Relic was established in 2008 by Lew Cirne. New Relic has grown so fast and quickly that now it has become an integral tool for developers, IT support teams and business executives. It is now servicing thousands of customers to improve the software or application performance.
New Relic is spread across the globe with offices in San Francisco, Portland, Dublin, Sydney, London, Zurich, and Munich. New Relic has a fantastic growth rate and it delivers around $263 million in revenue in the current fiscal year 2017 and it has a year on year growth of 45%.
New Relic APM provides the facility to drill down the application of performance-related problems.
It provides performance-related metrics as given below:
- Response Time, Throughput, Error Rates, etc.
- Performance of external services.
- Most time-consuming transactions.
- Cross-Application Tracing.
- Transaction breakdown.
- Deployment Analysis, History, and Comparison.
New Relic supports languages like Java, .NET, Python, Ruby, and PHP. And it also provides performance monitoring for mobile apps, advanced browser performance, and infrastructure monitoring.=> Visit New Relic Website
#8) AppDynamics
AppDynamics is an American Application Performance Management Company that was found in 2008 and is based out of San Francisco. More than 1000 employees are currently working with a revenue of $118 million in 2017. It was ranked #9 in the Forbes list among 100 top Cloud companies.
AppDynamics is part of Cisco now; Cisco has completed the acquisition in March 2017. AppDynamics provides end to end, real-time performance of complex and distributed applications.
It has the following key features:
- It supports languages like Java, Node.js, PHP, .NET, Python, C++, etc.
- Sends the alert for a business-critical issue with automatic performance base-lining.
- Resolves production application performance issues by monitoring each and every line of the code.
- Using AppDynamics, the root cause of any issue can be easily identified and fixed.
- Using the alerts and Response, Appdynamics automatically discovers what is normal with the performance.
Visit the official site: AppDynamics
#9) Opsview

opsview is a software company which was launched in 2005 with its headquarters at Reading, England. It has offices in the United States at Woburn, Massachusetts.
opsview Application Monitoring tools provide a single view of the entire infrastructure and the performance of business applications. In the digital technology era, multiple applications are deployed at multiple locations so it is a very challenging task to get the performance data and display in a single context.
But opsview makes it easier using its automated and unified approach.
Key Features:
- Opsview tracks the health and alerts of the application when it is not normal and before the end-user gets impacted
- It tracks the database availability and its connectivity with the client, storage metrics
- Opsview ensures that business-critical applications are meeting their SLAs
- It works with other Opsview product such as Opsview Mobile
Visit the official site: Opsview
#10) Dynatrace

Dynatrace was launched in 2006 with its headquarters in Massachusetts, USA. Currently, around 2000 employees are working for Dynatrace. It has around $354 million in revenue in the financial year 2017.
Dynatrace Application Monitoring tool monitors and manages the performance of the software application. Along with that it also ensures the availability of the software application. All the individual and business transactions are monitored deeply at the code level by dynatrace APM.
It monitors real data, application performance, cloud environment, and infrastructure.
Key Features:
- Dynatrace supports .NET and Java.
- End to end and code-level monitoring is done by dynatrace APM.
- It delivers better digital customer experience by understanding how the performance of an application is important to business growth
- It resolves problems proactively before the end-user gets impacted.
- This proactive approach has reduced the time to resolve the issue and it also saves the resources used for identification and resolution of the issue.
- The performance issue is discovered using artificial intelligence.
Visit the official site: Dynatrace
#11) Zenoss

Zenoss is a leader in hybrid IT monitoring and analytics software. It was launched in 2005 with its headquarters in Austin, Texas, USA. It has three software offerings – Zenoss core (Open source), Zenoss Service dynamics (Commercial software) and Zenoss as a Service (ZaaS).
Zenoss has a huge application monitoring capacity- that it monitors 1.2 million devices and 17 billion data points in a day. Zenoss won the Forbes award in 2016 for “Best Enterprise Software Startups and CEOs to Work For”
Key Features:
- Zenoss reduces downtime with proactive application monitoring.
- Resolves the issues with seamless Infrastructure before the end-user gets impacted due to the issue.
- Zenoss can automatically monitor application events and provide immediate alerts & notification.
- Zenoss can integrate with leading APM vendor such as New Relic, AppDyanmics, Dynatrace, etc
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#12) Dell Foglight

DELL is a multinational computer technology company based out of Texas, United States and was established in 1984. DELL has around 138,000 employees across the globe. DELL acquired Quest software in 2012. Quest Software was well known as one of the leaders in 2011 for Application Performance Monitoring.
Dell Foglight monitors the performance of an application across various technologies such as .NET Java. It also provides various analytical dashboards, better user experience, and cross-mapping between an application and the database.
Foglight quickly identifies and resolves the issues related to applications, virtual environments, and databases. Foglight can be integrated with different other tools to monitor application performance along with the Infrastructure performance.
Key Features:
- Foglight supports languages like Java, .NET, AJAX, etc.
- It is used to monitor Application Performance, database monitoring, storage platform performance, etc.
- It helps to improve compliance with the end-users SLA.
- Foglight captures user transactions to monitor the application health.
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#13) Stackify Retrace

Stackify was launched in 2012 by Matt Watson with its headquarters in Kansas, USA. It had a revenue of around $1 million in 2016. Stackify has been rewarded 2016 Editors’ Choice Award by PC Magazine for its tremendous work of Application Performance Monitoring. Stackify reported a 300% revenue growth in 2016.
Stackify provides application performance monitoring tool – Retrace and with the help of Retrace, Stackify has around 1000 customers including small companies as well as giant organizations like Xerox, Microsoft, Honeywell, etc.
Key Features:
- It supports .NET, Java and various other frameworks.
- Retrace can be integrated with other tools and it supports various environments.
- It is a SaaS-based APM tool and is designed specifically for developers.
- Retrace identifies the problems using detailed code-level performance trace.
- Retrace maintains the health of various servers and applications.
- It collects the details of all the applications stack and identifies its impact on performance.
Visit the official site: Stackify Retrace
#14) Application Insights

Microsoft is one of the reputed software company launched in 1975 with its headquarters in Washington, USA. More than 124,000 employees are working with a revenue of $90 billion. Microsoft jumps into the Application Performance Monitoring tool market by releasing “Application Insights”, which will help the organizations to understand how their applications are performing.
Application Insights is more focused on developers and is designed to monitor the application performance and to collect data to help in troubleshooting and improving the performance of the application.
Key Features:
- Application Insights works with .NET, C++, PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, etc.
- It works with Window-based application along with Android and iOS platforms.
- Application Insights is used to monitor the response time for various requests, CPU, network, memory usage, etc.
- Quickly identifies any problem and finds out the root cause of the issue and fixes it immediately.
- It has a powerful alerting system such as response time, email, various metrics, etc.
- It provides various metrics and dashboards to ensure that an application is available and running.
Visit the official site: Application Insights
#15) CA Technologies

CA Technologies was launched in 1976 and is headquartered in New York, USA. It has more than 12K employees currently with a revenue of $4 billion.
CA Application Performance Monitoring supports web, mobile, cloud, mainframe, etc. It monitors the application performance and provides greater customer experience. CA APM is available on-premises for enterprise customers.
Key Features:
- It identifies the problems quickly and resolves them immediately.
- Easily monitors application and simulates real user transactions.
- It safeguards the application performance from Mobile to Mainframe.
- Improvement in the digital performance of the application and customer journey.
- Simplifying and speeding up the detection and resolution of the issues results in reducing time and efforts.
- It provides better metrics when compared to other APM tools.
- It is easy to deploy and a stable APM tool.
CONCLUSION
In this article, we have seen the various Application Performance Monitoring tools.
There are still a lot of APM tools available in the market which can be chosen based on the project need and application performance.
With New Relic, you get more than just a great technology performance management tool. You also get the performance insights and productivity of one of the largest community of network professionals in the world. With these unique benefits, you can keep your applications reliably fast and make sure the entire business scales along with your success.