Word of the Day: cloud application performance management (CAPM)

Word of the Day Daily updates on the latest technology terms |December 11, 2017

cloud application performance management (CAPM) Cloud application performance management (CAPM or cloud APM) is the process of monitoring resources that support application program performance in private and hybrid cloud environments. An important goal of any CAPM initiative is to provide administrators with the ability to identify a poor user experience (UX) quickly so the cloud service can be turned off until the performance issue has been resolved. Measuring the user experience for public cloud-hosted applications usually requires an intelligent agent to be placed on the application server to monitor application response time. CAPM tools can then be used to combine data from disparate monitoring silos into a correlation engine and dashboard. The dashboard makes audit logs easier to read and saves IT staff from memory-dependent and error-prone manual correlation and analysis. As organizations begin to move enterprise applications to the cloud, the need for a tool that monitors and manages the performance and availability of applications across a distributed computing environment has become a must-have. Some tools even include predictive components to alert the administrator as to where potential problems exist and prescriptive components to automate a solution. Quote of the Day "While it's still early days for adoption, IT pros say AI-powered cloud management tools reduce a lot of the grunt work associated with performance and root-cause analysis." - Kristin Knapp   Trending Terms hybrid cloud private cloud cloud services intelligent agent response time correlation engine   Learning Center With AI-based cloud management tools, context is king Compared to more traditional third-party cloud management tools, AI-based systems deliver more context and greater granularity to operations teams. What you need to know about application performance monitoring tools Using application performance monitoring tools is an objective for many IT network managers who want to keep users satisfied with their apps and give them a positive experience. Cloud performance monitoring tools eliminate IT's blind spot Public cloud performance monitoring can be more difficult than on-premises IT monitoring, but management tools can help reduce the complexity and increase visibility. IT pros seek better methods to manage application performance Increasingly mobile and complex networks mean IT departments have to better manage application performance. Use every available tool for cloud application monitoring To overcome the challenges of cloud application monitoring, IT teams must grill vendors on tool options and think outside the data center box. Writing for Business In a hybrid cloud, sensitive data and computing resources may be maintained in two _________ environments. a. separate b. seperate Answer   Stay In Touch For feedback about any of our definitions or to suggest a new definition, please contact me at: mrouse@techtarget.com   Visit the Word of the Day Archives and catch up on what you've missed!   FOLLOW US About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Whatis.com, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget, Whatis, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2016 TechTarget. All rights reserved.