Infrastructure Monitoring Tools vs Application Performance Monitoring
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) meets developers should learn and use apm to proactively detect and resolve performance issues before they impact users, especially in microservices or cloud-native architectures where complexity can obscure root causes. Here's our take.
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)
Infrastructure Monitoring Tools
Nice PickDevelopers 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
Application Performance Monitoring
Developers should learn and use APM to proactively detect and resolve performance issues before they impact users, especially in microservices or cloud-native architectures where complexity can obscure root causes
Pros
- +It is critical for maintaining service-level agreements (SLAs), optimizing resource usage, and improving user satisfaction in production environments
- +Related to: observability, distributed-tracing
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
Use Infrastructure Monitoring Tools if: You want they are essential for devops and sre practices, enabling automated monitoring of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and containerized deployments and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.
Use Application Performance Monitoring if: You prioritize it is critical for maintaining service-level agreements (slas), optimizing resource usage, and improving user satisfaction in production environments over what Infrastructure Monitoring Tools offers.
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)
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