A modern IT infrastructure has many layers—or stacks as we call it—that, together, are critical to running an organization. In this blog series, we’ll attend to each stack in turn, talk about why they matter, and how OpManager Plus is adept at providing visibility into each of them.
Let’s start off with the first part, where we dive into the world of application performance management (APM) and understand its indispensable role in ensuring seamless IT operations.
Why application management matters
In today’s digital world, organizations of all sizes have pivoted to be online and are starting to prioritize their digital presence. Needless to say, applications and websites form the face of businesses, directly impacting revenue and goodwill of organizations. Whether it’s a mission-critical ERP system or a customer-facing web application, every second of downtime or performance lag can translate into financial loss, user dissatisfaction, and brand damage.
This brings us to an ongoing scenario where merely monitoring your organization’s hardware or network won’t be enough. Deep application visibility is now crucial to proactively address any issues—before they impact the end users.
What is at stake in the absence of advanced APM capabilities?
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Poor visibility into application performance: Without APM, you are left guessing whether slowdowns are caused by network issues, server overload, or application bottlenecks.
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Delayed resolution of problems: The absence of real-time insights into user journeys, transaction times, and performance metrics can lead to extended troubleshooting periods and poor user experience.
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Limited proactive measures: Without capabilities to simulate user journeys, track application dependencies, and application troubleshooting, organizations will struggle to prevent potential failures before impact. Organizations will also struggle to plan and perfect digital user experiences.
This is where OpManager Plus steps in.
Managing applications with OpManager Plus: What’s in store?
OpManager Plus brings comprehensive APM capabilities, right within its infrastructure monitoring suite. Designed to provide real-time insights, it equips IT teams with the tools they need to monitor, diagnose, and optimize applications—all from a single dashboard. Here’s how OpManager Plus enhances application management:
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APM and application health monitoring: With the ability to monitor over 150 apps and servers, OpManager Plus offers real-time alerts and analytics. Pre-configured templates provide deep visibility into the health and performance of applications, allowing you to monitor memory usage, CPU utilization, and transaction response times effortlessly.
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Synthetic transaction monitoring: Businesses need to simulate user behavior to detect performance bottlenecks before users experience them. OpManager Plus allows you to test the performance of critical user paths around the clock,, ensuring that your most important customer journeys are running smoothly at all times.
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Real user monitoring: Go beyond simulated environments with real user monitoring (RUM). Track actual user traffic, measure front-end and back-end response times, and analyze AJAX calls, Javascript errors, and transaction metrics. With OpManager Plus, you gain a clear understanding of user interactions and application responsiveness.
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Unified view across hybrid environments: OpManager Plus delivers a single-pane-of-glass view of applications across both cloud and on-premises environments. Whether you’re running on AWS, Azure, or Oracle Cloud—or managing on-premises databases—you can see dependencies between applications, services, and processes at a glance. This unification simplifies troubleshooting and ensures nothing is overlooked.AI-Powered troubleshooting: OpManager Plus’ AI-driven anomaly detection and intelligent root cause analysis (RCA) is a standout feature. By leveraging machine learning, it identifies unusual behavior and preemptively flags potential issues. With adaptive thresholds, it dynamically adjusts based on historical data, ensuring alerts are relevant and actionable.
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Proactive problem resolution: OpManager Plus’ robust notification system ensures you stay ahead of issues. With intelligent alarm correlation, critical problems are differentiated from minor ones, making it easier to prioritize. Receive notifications via email and SMS, or integrate them into existing systems, allowing for seamless problem resolution.
The edge organizations stand to gain with deep APM capabilities in IT infrastructure management
While traditional IT monitoring tools focus solely on network or hardware metrics, OpManager Plus goes deeper with its application monitoring capabilities. By integrating these insights, organizations can:
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Ensure a superior end-user experience by identifying and fixing performance issues before they escalate.
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Streamline operations by automating repetitive tasks and leveraging AI for predictive analysis.
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Optimize infrastructure performance with a unified view of all components, including applications, databases, servers, and cloud services.
In the next parts of this series, we will explore how OpManager Plus extends its capabilities beyond application management into network monitoring, configuration management, firewall monitoring, bandwidth management, IP address management (IPAM), and switch port management (SPM). But first, we hope you reflect upon this blog and understand the critical value of application performance and why it should be the cornerstone of your IT monitoring strategy. Take a closer look at OpManager Plus’ APM capabilities right away. Connect with our experts to guide you through the features tailored to your needs. Visit our pages for an in-depth overview, request a personalized quote, or start your free trial to experience the difference!
Stay tuned as we continue our deep dive into OpManager Plus’ full stack monitoring capabilities!
