Databases are everywhere these days, every application uses databases to store, organize and retrieve data. It has become more efficient than paper storage since it does not require more space and can also be easily accessed by multiple users at a time. There is an increase in demand for processing vast collections of data and this has become the most important reason for several companies to use databases.
In this information technology era, Application Performance Management (APM) monitors the performance of software applications and identifies the problems related to application performance as a service to the users. APM can be monitored or tracked using categories like load time, the response time of the application, etc. Nowadays, the applications are becoming more and more complex and distributed by using some technology in it.
Heroku was developed by James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins and Orion Henry to provide services, workflows and polyglot support to enhance developer productivity. Heroku is a container-based cloud Platform as a Service (PAAS). With Heroku, developers can deploy, manage and scale modern applications. Initially, Heroku supported only Ruby but later it added support for Java, Node.js, Python, PHP etc.
Application Performance Monitoring tool has become the most emerging business to organizations to deal with complex applications. It helps in optimizing and monitoring the performance of your application. To ensure your app's performance, since it is of utmost importance for the better user-experience, the recommended approach would be to use APM tools. There are wide spectrum of application monitoring tools available in the market place.
Every user desires to choose a site which is more user-friendly with an outstanding page-experience. To measure the user experience of a site on the web, Google announced Core Web Vitals in April 2020, the most trending website ranking signal. With the existing metrics such as page loads, mobile-friendliness, security, rendering etc.
With PHP Monitoring, you can identify bottlenecks in your PHP application and optimize your users’ experience. If there is a delay in the page loads, or if the API request takes longer than the actual time, the PHP monitoring will help you to track and identify the anomalies, the slowest functions, database queries, external requests causing the delays.
Infrastructure Monitoring refers to the constant tracking, collection and analysis of data about the infrastructure/server. Using this data, you can monitor the performance and the behavior of the hosts at the infrastructure level. You can also identify the issues that are of concern. For instance, you can periodically check and monitor the health of the hosts and if any slow downs occur, it’s easy to alert the users.
StatusPage.io makes it simple to create a beautiful status page for your app, web service or developer API. In this article, we will see how we can send front-end performance metrics from Atatus to StatusPage.io for every 5 minutes.
React 16 introduces bunch of features, most interesting one is “error boundary”. In this article, we will see what is error boundary, and how to log errors from error boundary to Atatus.
Now Deployment tracking is available for both APM and Browser products in Atatus. The deployment tracking is one of the most awaited feature in Atatus. It provides better visibility of your software releases for both back-end and front-end apps. When you deploy a new version of your app, you can notify Atatus with source revision or git SHA or application version. Then you will be able to see how new deployment affect your app performances from previous deployment.
