The toughest IT performance problems to solve today are the ones where a user complains that their application access is slow. An IT administrator must then figure out the cause of the problem: is it the browser, the network, the server, the storage, the cloud infrastructure on which the application is hosted, or the application code?

Application performance monitoring (APM) has become one of the key strategies adopted by IT teams and application owners in today’s era of digital business services. Application downtime has always been considered adverse to business productivity. But in today’s digital economy, what is becoming equally dreadful is application slowdown.

Java is one of the most popular technologies for application development. Tens of thousands of enterprise applications are powered by Java and millions of people use them daily. Java has been evolving over many decades and there are so many web frameworks, middleware, data access technologies and protocols built on Java.