APM vs Infrastructure Monitoring
Developers should learn and use APM to proactively detect and resolve performance issues in production environments, especially for complex, distributed applications like microservices or cloud-native systems meets developers should learn infrastructure monitoring to build resilient, scalable applications and participate in devops/sre practices. Here's our take.
APM
Developers should learn and use APM to proactively detect and resolve performance issues in production environments, especially for complex, distributed applications like microservices or cloud-native systems
APM
Nice PickDevelopers should learn and use APM to proactively detect and resolve performance issues in production environments, especially for complex, distributed applications like microservices or cloud-native systems
Pros
- +It is crucial for maintaining high availability, improving user satisfaction, and reducing downtime by providing insights into application behavior under load
- +Related to: observability, distributed-tracing
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
Infrastructure Monitoring
Developers should learn infrastructure monitoring to build resilient, scalable applications and participate in DevOps/SRE practices
Pros
- +It's essential for troubleshooting production issues, capacity planning, and ensuring high availability in microservices or cloud-native architectures
- +Related to: observability, apm-application-performance-monitoring
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
These tools serve different purposes. APM is a tool while Infrastructure Monitoring is a concept. We picked APM based on overall popularity, but your choice depends on what you're building.
Based on overall popularity. APM is more widely used, but Infrastructure Monitoring excels in its own space.
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