Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
HBO Delivers Infinite Streaming Scalability with Apica’s Ascent Platform
HBO is one of the world’s leading entertainment providers. Its premium cable programs and on-demand streaming services are popular worldwide, bringing hit movies and original programming into millions of homes across the globe. Business Challenge As an entertainment provider, one of HBO’s primary customer service concerns is ensuring the scalability of its streaming platform content, … Read more
IoT Monitoring for Today and Tomorrow
The two buzz words this year have been the “Connected Car” and “IoT Device.” The automotive industry has taken the lead in ensuring both are integrated into their innovations and even the services they offer. Automotive manufacturers are moving to not only deliver the most innovative autonomous cars, but also the ability to connect to … Read more
Self Service Atlassian Bamboo Plugin
Loadtest Bamboo deploy package on Atlassian Marketplace This package has been tested with Bamboo version 6.8. Overview The LTP Atlassian Bamboo plugin makes it possible to run automatic load tests as part of a build process. It starts and monitors a load test from start to finish and presents some statistics at the end. The … Read more
How Does Desktop Application Monitoring Work?
Supporting desktop apps for a variety of environments can be tricky for developers. That’s why rigorous desktop app monitoring is necessary. This article explores the issues and solutions in desktop application monitoring. Common Issues in Desktop App Monitoring Legacy applications tend to be the driver for businesses to achieve revenue goals. Despite having the standard … Read more
Using Grafana to Visualize Apica Monitoring Metrics
Using Grafana to Visualize Apica Monitoring Metrics By Sven Hammar, CPO at Apica Systems We have always provided Apica users with the best graphical reports to help visualize what is happening across any application or environment. A few of these graphical reports can be provided through the Portal, and these metrics can be brought into … Read more
Part II: Monitoring for Fun and Profit II (RUM/RUA vs. Synthetic)
For the second piece in this series on monitoring for fun and profit we will focus on RUM/RUA. As was done previously will generically define RUM/RUA and cover a typical RUM set of metrics as a basis for a RUM starting point. I prefer the Real User Analytics (RUA) and will use it interchangeably with … Read more
Part II: Monitoring for Fun and Profit II (RUM/RUA vs. Synthetic)
For the second piece in this series on monitoring for fun and profit we will focus on RUM/RUA. As was done previously will generically define RUM/RUA and cover a typical RUM set of metrics as a basis for a RUM starting point. I prefer the Real User Analytics (RUA) and will use it interchangeably with … Read more
ITRS Group Partners with Apica to Offer Best Practices
ITRS Group (“ITRS”), the leading provider of real-time monitoring and IT operations analytics to financial services firms, has announced a partnership with Apica, industry leaders in performance monitoring for enterprise business. Following ITRS’ recent acquisition of Sumerian, a leader in capacity planning, this partnership with Apica will mean ITRS can now offer performance modelling from … Read more
Why is website availability monitoring important? – Apica
To understand website availability monitoring, it’s important to understand synthetic monitoring. Synthetic Monitoring is a process initiated proactively by external agents (typically lightweight agents) that are meant to imitate actual end users and web traffic. These agents use scripts — that follow similar scenarios to those taken by actual end users — to automate transactions … Read more
4 key requirements for an enterprise IoT strategy
By 2020, there will be billions of devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). From the Google Homes and Fitbits in our personal lives to smart cities connecting everything from traffic lights, public transport, and water supply systems, IoT devices are producing masses of data to improve virtually every aspect of the day-to-day. As … Read more
LoadRunner or JMeter: A False Premise
When I speak to QA Managers in my daily routine, I often hear a common scenario, they own LoadRunner as their performance load testing solution, but they have been told by “C” level executives within their organization to replace it with a “free” open source solution like JMeter. This is almost always due to the … Read more
Page and Transaction Throughput in Performance Testing
As the holiday season approaches, the IT and Development teams for many ecommerce and online retail brands have already begun their application performance testing to gain answers to business-critical questions. What will happen when thousands upon thousands of users concurrently visit the web app to conduct their holiday gift shopping? At what point will the … Read more
