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Combining APM and RUM to Improve Your User Experience

Providing an intuitive user experience that caters to your audience’s needs is essential for your business. By combining APM and RUM, you can help eliminate application issues and give your users a seamless experience. Combining APM and RUM helps you look at both the front-end and back-end of your application, find and fix issues. Don’t quite know what APM and RUM are? Let’s take a closer look.

4 API Security Best Practices To Safeguard Sensitive Data

Thanks to the increasing usage of different software solutions, API usage has become an everyday practice. As such, API security is a more prevalent issue in app development than ever before. SaaS companies have an average of 350 integrations, whereas major SaaS companies like Slack, Zoom and Shopify have 2,000+ integrations. This is great for developers and end users, as Application Programming Interfaces (API) make life easier.

Mobile Cloud Computing: Overview, Challenges and Scope

The process of delivering mobile apps utilizing cloud technology is known as mobile cloud computing (MCC). Complex mobile apps today carry out activities including authentication, location-aware features and providing users with customized communication and content. As long as your device is online, mobile cloud computing enables you to store and access data anywhere. This makes it possible for data to be sent without difficulty anytime required.

Basics of Retrace APM

Retrace is an an award-winning, easy-to-use SaaS application monitoring solution, combining APM reporting with Error and Log management in a centralized location. The main APM component of Retrace provides code-level application performance visibility for 6 of the most popular programming languages, .Net, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby and Node.js. Retrace APM metrics give users insight into the amount of requests that are being made to an application’s endpoints and how those requests perform.

Driving Efficiency with Custom APM Dashboards

Have you ever struggled to have efficient visibility into your APM and log data? Have you ever been called on to display real-time data to your Sales or Marketing department, only to find yourself fumbling over the numbers without a way to display relevant data? Look no further! Retrace collects huge amounts of data about your application’s health and performance, then provides a customizable display in one place – your customizable APM Dashboards.

Retrace - Much More Than Your Average APM Tool

Finding the root cause of application performance issues is the crux of every app troubleshooting exercise. So why don’t more APM tools provide great root cause analysis? The trouble is – pun intended – the cause of a slow application can come from different sources, many outside the application itself. So APM tools that focus on the ‘A’ may never truly find the root cause.

Retrace Power User Tips and Tricks - Advanced Metrics and Reporting

Monitoring and reporting on your most important business metrics is a fundamental part of any APM or ITIM solution. Our Retrace Power User Tips and Tricks series has already looked at “Error and Log Management” functionalities. We’ve discussed useful, advanced features for monitoring app performance in our “Extending APM” post. In this latest edition, let’s take a look at how power users capture advanced server and application metrics.

A Practical Overview of APM Tools

In today’s tech-savvy world, apps not only add value to your brand but are also required to deliver fast responses and real-time problem solving with 24/7 availability. If your business relies on software applications for day-to-day operations, application performance monitoring (APM) is critical. APM tools allow you to pinpoint performance issues quickly, ensuring peak app performance.

Full Lifecycle Application Performance Monitoring is a Money-Saving Hack

IT experts and techies are constantly devising new ways to do more with less in our rapidly evolving world. Traditional platforms monitoring and modern technological maintenance take a large portion of a conventional organization’s IT budget. This leaves limited resources to develop new standards-based and adaptive applications that fulfill core business demands.