Application Performance Monitoring vs Infrastructure Monitoring Tools
Developers should use APM when building or maintaining production applications, especially in microservices or distributed architectures, to proactively detect performance degradation, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) for incidents, and improve user satisfaction meets developers should learn and use infrastructure monitoring tools when building or maintaining scalable, production-grade applications to proactively detect issues, ensure uptime, and meet service-level agreements (slas). Here's our take.
Application Performance Monitoring
Developers should use APM when building or maintaining production applications, especially in microservices or distributed architectures, to proactively detect performance degradation, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) for incidents, and improve user satisfaction
Application Performance Monitoring
Nice PickDevelopers should use APM when building or maintaining production applications, especially in microservices or distributed architectures, to proactively detect performance degradation, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) for incidents, and improve user satisfaction
Pros
- +It is critical for ensuring service-level agreements (SLAs), optimizing resource utilization, and debugging complex, multi-tier applications where traditional logging may be insufficient
- +Related to: observability, distributed-tracing
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
Infrastructure Monitoring Tools
Developers should learn and use infrastructure monitoring tools when building or maintaining scalable, production-grade applications to proactively detect issues, ensure uptime, and meet service-level agreements (SLAs)
Pros
- +They are essential for DevOps and SRE practices, enabling automated monitoring of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and containerized deployments
- +Related to: observability, apm-tools
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
Use Application Performance Monitoring if: You want it is critical for ensuring service-level agreements (slas), optimizing resource utilization, and debugging complex, multi-tier applications where traditional logging may be insufficient and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.
Use Infrastructure Monitoring Tools if: You prioritize they are essential for devops and sre practices, enabling automated monitoring of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and containerized deployments over what Application Performance Monitoring offers.
Developers should use APM when building or maintaining production applications, especially in microservices or distributed architectures, to proactively detect performance degradation, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) for incidents, and improve user satisfaction
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