Most IT professionals will tell you APM is important. But if you ask them what APM means, you will likely get different answers. Some IT practitioners will refer to application performance monitoring, ...

Have you ever wondered if your gaming rig is truly living up to its potential? For gamers, performance is everything—whether you’re chasing seamless frame rates in a competitive shooter or ...

Looking for an application performance monitoring tool for your software development team? Learn about the top APM software and platforms. Application performance monitoring (APM) tools can help ...

The leading application performance monitoring companies who made Gartner’s new 2020 Magic Quadrant include Cisco’s AppDynamics, Broadcom, Microsoft and New Relic. Read to find out what other ...

This chapter excerpt on Monitoring VMware vSphere 4 Performance (download PDF) is taken from the book Mastering VMware vSphere 4. The book offers guidance and insight into implementing VMware vSphere ...

When non-DBAs think about what it is that a DBA does, performance monitoring and tuning are usually the first tasks that come to mind. This should not be surprising. Almost anyone who has come in ...

You have likely heard the saying “A watched pot never boils.” The idea is that when you’re paying attention to the progress of a process (like the boiling of water), the change seems slower than if ...

Troubleshooting what can be tweaked, hacked, adjusted, and replaced requires detailed analysis. The Performance Monitor can provide that information in a visual format. There are many tools available ...

As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...