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Nexthink Experience'17 event highlights

Yesterday AP sponsored and attended Nexthink’s annual customer event. This year rebranded as Experience’17 compared to Analytics’16 last year with the company choosing to focus on why it does what...

Nexthink V6.9 is coming

Hot on the heels of version 6.8, released back in January 2017, Nexthink v6.9 is just around the corner, and expected to be GA on March 27th 2017.

Nexthink V6.8 has arrived

Nexthink V6.8 is with us now, and you are probably asking what it’s all about.

Nexthink V6.8 is coming

As a reminder, Nexthink V6.7 introduced the End-user Feedback module and Scores. These two components are critical to help better understand and improve what really matters to the business.

Announcing our Partnership with Nexthink

We are delighted to announce our partnership with Swiss end user analytics champion, Nexthink.

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Announcing our Partnership with Rigor

Rigor and Application Performance announce UK web performance monitoring and optimisation partnership. 

AP Partner, Control F1, in Northern Tech 100 'Top 10'

Control F1 in Northern Tech top 10 fastest growing companies We’d like to congratulate our long-standing partner Control F1, who have been placed in the top 10 in the fastest...

AP Partner Foundation SP wins #1 Best place to work 2017

Wow… not just #1 in the UK but now #3 in Europe as well !

Webinar: Six Things You Need to Know Before Migrating to Office 365 and SharePoint Online

We are delighted to announce our forthcoming webinar with digital strategists Metalogix on Six Things You Need to Know Before Migrating to Office 365 and SharePoint Online on 3 March....

AppDynamics Summit Europe, 3-4th May 2017

We’re delighted to announce our sponsorship of AppDynamics Summit Europe 2017.

SQL Saturday Cambridge

We’re delighted to announce our sponsorship of SQL Saturday in September.

Cisco to acquire AppDynamics

I’m sure that you have all heard the exiting news that Cisco has announced it’s intent to purchase AppDynamics. We have worked with AppDynamics since their first beginnings here in the UK, and...

Nexthink User Feedback

Combining user satisfaction scores with technical metrics for the complete picture of user-experience

Webinar – The User is King: Delivering a Great User Experience in SharePoint and Office 365

We are delighted to announce that Peter Baddeley, SharePoint and Office 365 expert is to co-present our forthcoming webinar on User Experience with Mick McGuinness, one of our directors and...

AP Partner AppDynamics Scores Top in Gartner Report

AP partner AppDynamics has scored top in Gartner’s recent report into Application Performance Management (APM). Ranked against its competitors, AppDynamics garnered the highest scores in all categories which included:

Application Performance Facilitates AppDynamics Tesco Roll Out

AppDynamics is now being used to provide business-wide visibility into the customer experience – both in production and during the test and development phase at Tesco.

Why is Mobile Performance so Big?

There’s no doubt that mobile is gathering a huge amount of focus.

Webinar: Are You Ready for Office 365?

We are running an essential webinar on 28 April 2015 entitled ‘Are You Ready for Office 365?’

SharePoint User Group UK

We are pleased to announce that Mick McGuinness, Technical Director of Application Performance will be speaking at the SharePoint User Group on Thursday 17th September.

SharePoint Saturday Survey Results

Earlier this month we asked delegates attending SharePoint Saturday in London to undertake a survey on the future direction of SharePoint, Office 365 and their challenges around performance management and...

SharePoint Saturday Cambridge

We’re delighted to announce that we will be exhibiting and speaking at SharePoint Saturday in Cambridge on 12th September.

SharePoint Saturday – 29th November 2014

Application Performance are sponsors and exhibitors at SharePoint Saturday.

Application Performance attends SharePoint Conference (SPC) 2014, Las Vegas

We are pleased to announce our participation in the Microsoft® SharePointTM Conference 2014 in Las Vegas.

SharePoint Best Practice and the Cloud Webinar

We are delighted to announce that SharePoint expert Simon Hudson from Cloud 2 is to present an AP webinar on SharePoint Best Practice and the Cloud.

Webinar on Database Tuning for Better Performance

On the 18 March Application Performance hosted a successful webinar by database expert Rafi Balbirsky from Performance Art, on database tuning for better performance.

Announcing our Partnership with Nexthink

We are delighted to announce our partnership with Swiss end user analytics champion, Nexthink.

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Nexthink Experience'17 event highlights

Yesterday AP sponsored and attended Nexthink’s annual customer event. This year rebranded as Experience’17 compared to Analytics’16 last year with the company choosing to focus on why it does what...

Global cyber attack hits businesses who fail to patch their systems

As the repercussions of the WannaCry (or WannaCrypt) RansomWare attack continues this week, it once again highlights the risks cyber attacks pose to businesses around the globe.

Nexthink Webinar: Are you vulnerable to WannaCry?

 Join the webinar to hear Security Expert Matthew Aylard of Nexthink discuss the risks and what can be done to avoid becoming the victim of a cyber attack.

Nexthink for ServiceNow

With the release of v6.10, Nexthink continues to improve its integration with ServiceNow. With Nexthink, the ServiceNow console is populated with real-time end-user analytics that improve incident management, problem management,...

Nexthink V6.10 is Here!

This latest release brings end-user feedback to new heights! The End-user Feedback module offers a simple yet effective method for gathering direct feedback from end users. It gives you both...

Webinar: New Forrester Research unveils drivers of growing divide between business and IT

 New Forrester Research unveils drivers of growing divide between business and IT.  Join Nexthink for“Three key steps to transform your IT department from a technology gatekeeper to a business enabler”....

Showtime at the AppDynamics Summit Europe

Over 1000 attendees waited expectantly, the numbers buoyed by news of the Cisco acquisition of AppDynamics. Loud music, laser lights and flashing display announced the arrival of David Wadhwani, the...

Nexthink V6.9 is coming

Hot on the heels of version 6.8, released back in January 2017, Nexthink v6.9 is just around the corner, and expected to be GA on March 27th 2017.

Nexthink V6.8 has arrived

Nexthink V6.8 is with us now, and you are probably asking what it’s all about.

Nexthink V6.8 is coming

As a reminder, Nexthink V6.7 introduced the End-user Feedback module and Scores. These two components are critical to help better understand and improve what really matters to the business.

Gaining the upper hand in Office 365 migration

Gaining the Upper Hand on Your Office 365 Migration

Nexthink User Feedback

Combining user satisfaction scores with technical metrics for the complete picture of user-experience

New slant on you can't manage what you don't measure

Harness your environment using end-user data & analytics for superior insight

Why Service Desk calls are just the tip of the iceberg

IT Service Desks are inherently reactive rather than proactive in nature. A user calls in to log an issue which is then dealt with, but without really understanding how many other...

Announcing our Partnership with Nexthink

We are delighted to announce our partnership with Swiss end user analytics champion, Nexthink.

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Webinar: Understanding Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint Online

We are delighted to announce our forthcoming webinar with Brett Lonsdale, owner of Lightning Tools, a Microsoft® SharePoint® tools and web parts vendor.

Webinar: SharePoint Best Practice and the Cloud – Video and Slides Available Now

The SharePoint community tuned in on 4th December to hear industry experts Simon Hudson and Mick McGuinness explain how this important Microsoft® application can be successfully managed in the Cloud....

SharePoint Day Next Thursday!

If you’re concerned with delivering a smooth Office 365 migration, we’re focusing on these issues next Thursday 26 November in a day of webinars and public appearances by the AP...

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What is RUM, and how does it differ to Synthetics?

When you start researching and looking into web performance and monitoring, you are bound to come across several words and acronyms; EUM (End User Monitoring), Synthetic Monitoring, RUM (Real User...

OverOps can change the way you code

We have been using OverOps for a while now on the software that we develop at our sister company WebTuna. I am the main developer for WebTuna and I can...

Ymor - a company built on a unique application monitoring technology and a fully managed service

At AP we love partnering with innovative companies, and are really pleased to introduce you to Ymor, and their CEO, Martin van den Berge. Martin started Ymor back in 2003,...

Application Performance attends SharePoint Conference (SPC) 2014, Las Vegas

We are pleased to announce our participation in the Microsoft® SharePointTM Conference 2014 in Las Vegas.

SharePoint Best Practice and the Cloud Webinar

We are delighted to announce that SharePoint expert Simon Hudson from Cloud 2 is to present an AP webinar on SharePoint Best Practice and the Cloud.

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Are you ready for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2019?

This post may seem very early, but the upcoming Amazon Prime Day this week (15-16th July 2019) is a good reminder that as an e-commerce platform you really do need...

Case Study: ELEXON use AppDynamics APM

ELEXON is vital to the running of the GB electricity wholesale market. Its role is to compare how much electricity generators and suppliers say they will produce or consume against...

Are you ready for Black Friday 2018?

We’re now well into November, and the ‘Christmas’ word is getting bandied about in various adverts and social media outlets. 

Monitoring process flow with AppDynamics

Many applications can be thought of as a pipeline, with things being fed in at one end and emerging in a modified form at the other end. Here throughput is...

A brief history of Application Performance Management (APM)

The graphic below looks back at the history of Application Performance Management. Starting from the late 90’s when the first solutions started to appear, such as Precise, Wily, Mecury Interactive...

Application Performance talks to AppDynamics

Listen to Russell Luke, Managing Director of Application Performance talk about how Application Performance and AppDynamics partner to monitor “one version of the truth” across all aspects of your applications.

AppDynamics launches Business iQ at AppSphere 2016

Last week at AppDynamics AppSphere we saw the launch of Business iQ. It allows customers to build new business-focused dashboards in order to achieve real-time business monitoring.

AppDynamics 3.9 - A Giant Leap in Application Performance

We’re impressed with the new version of AppDynamics’ comprehensive and smart Application Performance Management software which not only presents more features but does so with responsive and multi-layered custom dashboards....

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Monitoring Kubernetes with the AppDynamics Cluster Agent

At Application Performance, as independent application performance specialists, we take a keen interest in the capabilities of the major APM vendors. When it comes to monitoring Kubernetes in particular, application...

Are you ready for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2019?

This post may seem very early, but the upcoming Amazon Prime Day this week (15-16th July 2019) is a good reminder that as an e-commerce platform you really do need...

Supercharging AppDynamics with OverOps

OverOps is a platform for software reliability which has the ability to integrate with other tools used through the software development lifecycle such as tools for CI/CD, Bug tracking, Alerting, Reporting, Log...

Looking back at AppDynamics Global Tour London 2019

Last week the AppDynamics Global Tour arrived in London and it was great to meet many of our customers there. The event was aimed at technologists driving transformation in their industries,...

Turbocharging AppDynamics with OverOps

OverOps is a platform for software reliability which has the ability to integrate with other tools used through the software development lifecycle such as tools for CI/CD, Bug tracking, Alerting, Reporting, Log...

Case Study: ELEXON use AppDynamics APM

ELEXON is vital to the running of the GB electricity wholesale market. Its role is to compare how much electricity generators and suppliers say they will produce or consume against...

2018 - Looking back - and some new ideas for 2019

Before jumping into 2019, we would like to thank you for all we accomplished together during the last year! We are proud to be working with you, helping you get the most...

No substitute for reasoning about your software

There is an increasing drive to use tools, such as Jenkins, to help automate post-build tests in continuous integration (CI) pipelines. The overall idea is to improve software quality through the...

Taking a probabilistic approach to fixing bugs

  Does your organisation struggle to fix application errors? Are you able to capture enough information even to understand the problem? Are you able to reproduce the problem? Do you...

New OverOps Feature – Timers

OverOps adds a new feature to time the response time of Java Methods, alert when they exceed their targets, and see the complete source-code and variable states responsible.

AppDynamics 4.4 New Features

AppDynamics Winter ‘17 product release, also known as version 4.4 of their App iQ Platform, was launched recently. Many SaaS customers will have already been upgraded to this latest version,...

Cisco acquires Perspica to add to AppDynamics

Cisco announced today that it intends to acquire Perspica, a machine learning-driven IT operations analytics firm. Cisco intends to fold Perspica’s team into AppDynamics, which it purchased for $3B early...

Cisco and Turbonomic Partnership

Application Performance are a partner of Turbonomic and also Cisco now through their acquisition of AppDynamics. So we followed with interest their recently announced partnership.

AWS Summit London Highlights

On Wednesday last week, AP once again attended the annual AWS Summit in London. Every year, this event gets bigger, and this year there were 6000 attendees and 74 partners...

AWS Summit London 2017

Only 1 day to go until the Amazon AWS Summit London 2017. Application Performance will be there for the third year running. This year 2 of our partners, AppDynamics and...

AP Partner, Control F1, in Northern Tech 100 'Top 10'

Control F1 in Northern Tech top 10 fastest growing companies We’d like to congratulate our long-standing partner Control F1, who have been placed in the top 10 in the fastest...

Video Highlights from AppD Summit Europe ‘17

Last week more than 1,000 people from 34 countries gathered at AppD Summit Europe in London. Thank you to everyone who attended to make this APM summit the largest to date...

Showtime at the AppDynamics Summit Europe

Over 1000 attendees waited expectantly, the numbers buoyed by news of the Cisco acquisition of AppDynamics. Loud music, laser lights and flashing display announced the arrival of David Wadhwani, the...

Fixing application errors and exceptions fast

AppDynamics is great at detecting errors and exceptions in your applications. You can see the frequency at which they are happening and which Business Transactions and Users are affected by...

Interview with AppDynamics: APM, Sector trends & more

Last week AppDynamics interviewed AP co-founder Mick McGuinness ahead of their upcoming AppD Summit Europe Event to talk about APM, sector trends and more. AP are specialist APM consultancy and long-term AppDynamics partner and a Platinum sponsor at...

Ymonitor - Synthetic monitoring for ANY application

AppDynamics does a great job of Synthetic Monitoring for public facing web sites with the ability to proactively ensure application performance and availability anytime from around the world.

Real-Time. Self-Managing. Application Performance.

AppDynamics does a great job of understanding the performance and quality of the user experience delivered by your applications, as well as deep insights into how well the multiple servers,...

AppDynamics Spring ’17 release adds features for Developers and Enterprises

AppDynamics Spring ’17 release (also know as version 4.3) brings many new capabilities to visualise the end-to-end performance of your application: from touch, to code, to infrastructure. There is a...

AppDynamics Summit Europe, 3-4th May 2017

We’re delighted to announce our sponsorship of AppDynamics Summit Europe 2017.

Monitoring process flow with AppDynamics

Many applications can be thought of as a pipeline, with things being fed in at one end and emerging in a modified form at the other end. Here throughput is...

Stepping back from the bleeding edge

As a consultant I often get called in to help organisations improve the performance of their applications. The first requirement is usually to install some monitoring to see what is...

Cisco to acquire AppDynamics

I’m sure that you have all heard the exiting news that Cisco has announced it’s intent to purchase AppDynamics. We have worked with AppDynamics since their first beginnings here in the UK, and...

A brief history of Application Performance Management (APM)

The graphic below looks back at the history of Application Performance Management. Starting from the late 90’s when the first solutions started to appear, such as Precise, Wily, Mecury Interactive...

AppDynamics launches Business iQ at AppSphere 2016

Last week at AppDynamics AppSphere we saw the launch of Business iQ. It allows customers to build new business-focused dashboards in order to achieve real-time business monitoring.

AppDynamics adds ServiceNow integration

At AppSphere 2016, the AppDynamics annual global conference in Las Vegas last week, we learned about a new integration with ServiceNow. The ServiceNow App is available immediately to download from...

AP Partner AppDynamics score top in new Forrester study

Industry analyst Forrester  recently released their latest analysis of the top 14 application performance management (APM) vendors and evaluated them against 28 criteria. AP partner AppDynamics came out on top when compared...

AP Partner AppDynamics Scores Top in Gartner Report

AP partner AppDynamics has scored top in Gartner’s recent report into Application Performance Management (APM). Ranked against its competitors, AppDynamics garnered the highest scores in all categories which included:

Application Performance Facilitates AppDynamics Tesco Roll Out

AppDynamics is now being used to provide business-wide visibility into the customer experience – both in production and during the test and development phase at Tesco.

AppDynamics 3.9 - A Giant Leap in Application Performance

We’re impressed with the new version of AppDynamics’ comprehensive and smart Application Performance Management software which not only presents more features but does so with responsive and multi-layered custom dashboards....

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UK OUG webinar: Oracle edition survey results

During our recent UK OUG webinar, on 14 May, entitled “Escaping the limitations of the Oracle performance tuning tools”, we ran a survey asking “In your organisation, what is the...

Did you catch our webinar hosted by the UK OUG ?

On the 14th May,  Martin Pinner of Application Performance presented a webinar, hosted by the UK Oracle User Group, discussing Oracle’s database performance toolsets, and put forward an alternative methodology for...

UK OUG Webinar - May 2019

Martin Pinner of Application Performance will be presenting a webinar, hosted by the UK Oracle User Group, discussing Oracle’s database performance toolsets, and why they may not be the best...

Reflections on the UK OUG - Midlands Tech Summit.

Thanks to all who came to see us at the UK Oracle User Group Midlands Tech Summit in Northampton yesterday where AP were both an exhibitor and speaker.

See us at the UK Oracle User Group on 28th Feb

Next Thursday, 28th February, AP will be sponsoring, speaking and exhibiting at the UK Oracle User Group Midlands Tech Summit in Northampton.

Are you ready for Black Friday 2018?

We’re now well into November, and the ‘Christmas’ word is getting bandied about in various adverts and social media outlets. 

Introducing DBTao: the new way to unlock your hidden ORACLE performance

Ever wanted a quick way to optimise your Oracle database, without spending days trawling through Explain Plans and schema stats?

Webinar on Database Tuning for Better Performance

On the 18 March Application Performance hosted a successful webinar by database expert Rafi Balbirsky from Performance Art, on database tuning for better performance.

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Looking back at AppDynamics Global Tour London 2019

Last week the AppDynamics Global Tour arrived in London and it was great to meet many of our customers there. The event was aimed at technologists driving transformation in their industries,...

We enjoyed the show at Devoxx 2019

 Well, we had a busy couple of days last week at Devoxx 2019, and all came back with some serious aches.

Did you catch our webinar hosted by the UK OUG ?

On the 14th May,  Martin Pinner of Application Performance presented a webinar, hosted by the UK Oracle User Group, discussing Oracle’s database performance toolsets, and put forward an alternative methodology for...

Supercharge your CI Pipeline? Come see us at Devoxx

If you are running a Continuous Integration pipeline using a tool such as Jenkins, then our upcoming talk is for you. Next week we will be demonstrating 2 new ways...

Devoxx 2019 - put it in your diary now!

Devoxx UK returns to London from the 8-10th May, 2019. This year, as last, AP will be sponsoring, exhibiting and speaking at the event. Put the date in your diary...

UK OUG Webinar - May 2019

Martin Pinner of Application Performance will be presenting a webinar, hosted by the UK Oracle User Group, discussing Oracle’s database performance toolsets, and why they may not be the best...

Join Rigor and AP for a web performance industry dinner

After the success of our last industry dinner in November 2018, we are pleased to hold another at Gaucho (City) London. We look forward to you joining the informal discussion...

Join industry experts for Dinner (London 8th Nov)

Join AP and other industry experts for Dinner (London 8th Nov) to discuss ‘How to deliver fast and reliable digital experiences for your end users’. Learn how other companies, like SpecSavers,...

Devoxx 2018 – Post Event Thoughts

While our legs and backs may not have quite fully recovered yet, we are now a week since the successful Devoxx conference ended, and we thought it would be a...

Calling all Java Developers - Devoxx 2018 is here

Devoxx UK returns to London 9th – 11th May, 2018 , and will welcome brilliant speakers and attendees for the very best developer content and awesome experiences. This year AP will...

Turbonomic 6.0 Release Webinar Recording

With Turbonomic’s previous release, they extended their platform’s on-premises capabilities with new support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure public cloud environments. In Turbonomic 6.0 they are going...

Nexthink Experience'17 event highlights

Yesterday AP sponsored and attended Nexthink’s annual customer event. This year rebranded as Experience’17 compared to Analytics’16 last year with the company choosing to focus on why it does what...

Java 9 First Impressions Webinar

Register for the Java 9 First Impressions Webinar Java 9 is here and it’s expected to revolutionize the way we think of and build large scale applications.    In this...

Turbonomic 6.0 Webinar

Join the Turbonomic v6.0 Release Webinar

Join Turbonomic and Node4 to learn about infrastructure consumption, costs and compliance

As a Turbonomic partner we invite you to participate in a discussion with your peers around consumption, costs and compliance constraints.

Webinar: New Forrester Research unveils drivers of growing divide between business and IT

 New Forrester Research unveils drivers of growing divide between business and IT.  Join Nexthink for“Three key steps to transform your IT department from a technology gatekeeper to a business enabler”....

Webinar: Six Things You Need to Know Before Migrating to Office 365 and SharePoint Online

We are delighted to announce our forthcoming webinar with digital strategists Metalogix on Six Things You Need to Know Before Migrating to Office 365 and SharePoint Online on 3 March....

AppDynamics Summit Europe, 3-4th May 2017

We’re delighted to announce our sponsorship of AppDynamics Summit Europe 2017.

SQL Saturday Cambridge

We’re delighted to announce our sponsorship of SQL Saturday in September.

Webinar – The User is King: Delivering a Great User Experience in SharePoint and Office 365

We are delighted to announce that Peter Baddeley, SharePoint and Office 365 expert is to co-present our forthcoming webinar on User Experience with Mick McGuinness, one of our directors and...

Why is Mobile Performance so Big?

There’s no doubt that mobile is gathering a huge amount of focus.

Webinar: Understanding Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint Online

We are delighted to announce our forthcoming webinar with Brett Lonsdale, owner of Lightning Tools, a Microsoft® SharePoint® tools and web parts vendor.

Webinar: SharePoint Best Practice and the Cloud – Video and Slides Available Now

The SharePoint community tuned in on 4th December to hear industry experts Simon Hudson and Mick McGuinness explain how this important Microsoft® application can be successfully managed in the Cloud....

Webinar: How to Get Great Performance from Your Network

We are delighted to announce that we will be running a webinar entitled How to Get Great Performance from your Network presented by network specialist, Cliff Chapman.

Webinar: Are You Ready for Office 365?

We are running an essential webinar on 28 April 2015 entitled ‘Are You Ready for Office 365?’

SharePoint User Group UK

We are pleased to announce that Mick McGuinness, Technical Director of Application Performance will be speaking at the SharePoint User Group on Thursday 17th September.

SharePoint Saturday Cambridge

We’re delighted to announce that we will be exhibiting and speaking at SharePoint Saturday in Cambridge on 12th September.

SharePoint Saturday – 29th November 2014

Application Performance are sponsors and exhibitors at SharePoint Saturday.

SharePoint Day Next Thursday!

If you’re concerned with delivering a smooth Office 365 migration, we’re focusing on these issues next Thursday 26 November in a day of webinars and public appearances by the AP...

Application Performance attends SharePoint Conference (SPC) 2014, Las Vegas

We are pleased to announce our participation in the Microsoft® SharePointTM Conference 2014 in Las Vegas.

SharePoint Best Practice and the Cloud Webinar

We are delighted to announce that SharePoint expert Simon Hudson from Cloud 2 is to present an AP webinar on SharePoint Best Practice and the Cloud.

Webinar on Database Tuning for Better Performance

On the 18 March Application Performance hosted a successful webinar by database expert Rafi Balbirsky from Performance Art, on database tuning for better performance.

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Webinar on Database Tuning for Better Performance

On the 18 March Application Performance hosted a successful webinar by database expert Rafi Balbirsky from Performance Art, on database tuning for better performance.

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AP Partner Foundation SP wins #1 Best place to work 2017

Wow… not just #1 in the UK but now #3 in Europe as well !

So What Does SharePoint Learn from E-Commerce?

Like the delegates who attended Mick McGuinness’ webinar last week on ‘What Can SharePoint Learn from E-commerce’, I was intrigued by the ways in which common SharePoint issues are being...

Webinar – The User is King: Delivering a Great User Experience in SharePoint and Office 365

We are delighted to announce that Peter Baddeley, SharePoint and Office 365 expert is to co-present our forthcoming webinar on User Experience with Mick McGuinness, one of our directors and...

SharePoint User Group UK

We are pleased to announce that Mick McGuinness, Technical Director of Application Performance will be speaking at the SharePoint User Group on Thursday 17th September.

SharePoint Saturday Survey Results

Earlier this month we asked delegates attending SharePoint Saturday in London to undertake a survey on the future direction of SharePoint, Office 365 and their challenges around performance management and...

SharePoint Saturday Cambridge

We’re delighted to announce that we will be exhibiting and speaking at SharePoint Saturday in Cambridge on 12th September.

Application Performance attends SharePoint Conference (SPC) 2014, Las Vegas

We are pleased to announce our participation in the Microsoft® SharePointTM Conference 2014 in Las Vegas.

SharePoint Best Practice and the Cloud Webinar

We are delighted to announce that SharePoint expert Simon Hudson from Cloud 2 is to present an AP webinar on SharePoint Best Practice and the Cloud.

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Webinar Recording - How TripAdvisor Solves Production Errors in Minutes

On January 26th, Steve Rogers , Director of Software Engineering at Viator, a TripAdvisor company, talked about how his teams reduce error resolution time from days to minutes.

Webinar - How TripAdvisor Solves Production Errors in Minutes

On January 26th, Steve Rogers , Director of Software Engineering at Viator, a TripAdvisor company, will share workflows that allow his teams to reduce error resolution time from days to...

How to survive an ORACLE Licence audit

For those that were unable to attend the webinar here is the recording.

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How to Manage SaaS Performance

Precisely how do you analyse the cause of a fault with your SaaS products and find out whether it’s something you can fix?

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How to Manage SaaS Performance

Precisely how do you analyse the cause of a fault with your SaaS products and find out whether it’s something you can fix?

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Using SaaS Services?

For large organisations, monitoring and managing cloud services such as SharePoint in the Cloud, Salesforce and other SaaS applications can be something of a challenge.

How to Manage SaaS Performance

Precisely how do you analyse the cause of a fault with your SaaS products and find out whether it’s something you can fix?

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Riverbed® and the Great Renaming Project

We’re delighted that Riverbed has now concluded the eagerly awaited review of its brands, delivering more clearly defined products that we’re pleased to be able to offer our customers.

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Riverbed® and the Great Renaming Project

We’re delighted that Riverbed has now concluded the eagerly awaited review of its brands, delivering more clearly defined products that we’re pleased to be able to offer our customers.

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Riverbed® and the Great Renaming Project

We’re delighted that Riverbed has now concluded the eagerly awaited review of its brands, delivering more clearly defined products that we’re pleased to be able to offer our customers.

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Application Performance attends SharePoint Conference (SPC) 2014, Las Vegas

We are pleased to announce our participation in the Microsoft® SharePointTM Conference 2014 in Las Vegas.

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Turbonomic 6.0 Webinar

Join the Turbonomic v6.0 Release Webinar

AWS Summit London Highlights

On Wednesday last week, AP once again attended the annual AWS Summit in London. Every year, this event gets bigger, and this year there were 6000 attendees and 74 partners...

AWS Summit London 2017

Only 1 day to go until the Amazon AWS Summit London 2017. Application Performance will be there for the third year running. This year 2 of our partners, AppDynamics and...

Real-Time. Self-Managing. Application Performance.

AppDynamics does a great job of understanding the performance and quality of the user experience delivered by your applications, as well as deep insights into how well the multiple servers,...

SharePoint Saturday Survey Results

Earlier this month we asked delegates attending SharePoint Saturday in London to undertake a survey on the future direction of SharePoint, Office 365 and their challenges around performance management and...

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Webinar: Six Things You Need to Know Before Migrating to Office 365 and SharePoint Online

We are delighted to announce our forthcoming webinar with digital strategists Metalogix on Six Things You Need to Know Before Migrating to Office 365 and SharePoint Online on 3 March....

SharePoint Saturday Survey Results

Earlier this month we asked delegates attending SharePoint Saturday in London to undertake a survey on the future direction of SharePoint, Office 365 and their challenges around performance management and...

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Did you catch our webinar hosted by the UK OUG ?

On the 14th May,  Martin Pinner of Application Performance presented a webinar, hosted by the UK Oracle User Group, discussing Oracle’s database performance toolsets, and put forward an alternative methodology for...

UK OUG Webinar - May 2019

Martin Pinner of Application Performance will be presenting a webinar, hosted by the UK Oracle User Group, discussing Oracle’s database performance toolsets, and why they may not be the best...

Want a fast web site? Then you need to know what you are doing!

During my developer career, I have come across developers and teams who do not know or appreciate the importance of web performance, and quite often it can be treated as...

See us at the UK Oracle User Group on 28th Feb

Next Thursday, 28th February, AP will be sponsoring, speaking and exhibiting at the UK Oracle User Group Midlands Tech Summit in Northampton.

Does web performance really matter?

Have you ever wondered if web performance is important, and if so why? What if your website is slow, what does it mean to you and your business? And conversely,...

Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps

For the consumer, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now fading in memory, the only remnants being a pile of cardboard packaging sticking out of the top of their recycling...

Are you ready for Black Friday 2018?

We’re now well into November, and the ‘Christmas’ word is getting bandied about in various adverts and social media outlets. 

The Cache Effect

One of the main drivers for the adoption of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is the complexity and dynamism of modern applications. Take a simple example - caching.

Webinar: Are You Ready for Office 365?

We are running an essential webinar on 28 April 2015 entitled ‘Are You Ready for Office 365?’

SharePoint Saturday Survey Results

Earlier this month we asked delegates attending SharePoint Saturday in London to undertake a survey on the future direction of SharePoint, Office 365 and their challenges around performance management and...

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Gaining the upper hand in Office 365 migration

Gaining the Upper Hand on Your Office 365 Migration

Webinar – The User is King: Delivering a Great User Experience in SharePoint and Office 365

We are delighted to announce that Peter Baddeley, SharePoint and Office 365 expert is to co-present our forthcoming webinar on User Experience with Mick McGuinness, one of our directors and...

Webinar: Are You Ready for Office 365?

We are running an essential webinar on 28 April 2015 entitled ‘Are You Ready for Office 365?’

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Webinar: Are You Ready for Office 365?

We are running an essential webinar on 28 April 2015 entitled ‘Are You Ready for Office 365?’

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Webinar: How to Get Great Performance from Your Network

We are delighted to announce that we will be running a webinar entitled How to Get Great Performance from your Network presented by network specialist, Cliff Chapman.

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Webinar: How to Get Great Performance from Your Network

We are delighted to announce that we will be running a webinar entitled How to Get Great Performance from your Network presented by network specialist, Cliff Chapman.

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Webinar: How to Get Great Performance from Your Network

We are delighted to announce that we will be running a webinar entitled How to Get Great Performance from your Network presented by network specialist, Cliff Chapman.

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Why is Mobile Performance so Big?

There’s no doubt that mobile is gathering a huge amount of focus.

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Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps

For the consumer, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now fading in memory, the only remnants being a pile of cardboard packaging sticking out of the top of their recycling...

AppDynamics Spring ’17 release adds features for Developers and Enterprises

AppDynamics Spring ’17 release (also know as version 4.3) brings many new capabilities to visualise the end-to-end performance of your application: from touch, to code, to infrastructure. There is a...

Why is Mobile Performance so Big?

There’s no doubt that mobile is gathering a huge amount of focus.

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Reflections on last night's web performance dinner

Last night we held our second Rigor Web Performance Dinner, where we were joined by some great people from well known brand names, all at various stages of their web...

Does web performance really matter?

Have you ever wondered if web performance is important, and if so why? What if your website is slow, what does it mean to you and your business? And conversely,...

Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps

For the consumer, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now fading in memory, the only remnants being a pile of cardboard packaging sticking out of the top of their recycling...

Are you ready for Black Friday 2018?

We’re now well into November, and the ‘Christmas’ word is getting bandied about in various adverts and social media outlets. 

AppDynamics Spring ’17 release adds features for Developers and Enterprises

AppDynamics Spring ’17 release (also know as version 4.3) brings many new capabilities to visualise the end-to-end performance of your application: from touch, to code, to infrastructure. There is a...

Why is Mobile Performance so Big?

There’s no doubt that mobile is gathering a huge amount of focus.

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What's happened to this blog?

You may be wondering what’s been happening at AP and why our blog here hasn’t been updated in a while?

DBmarlin 1.5.1 released

Version 1.5 is another landmark DBmarlin release with added support for CockroachDB as well as important additional features for SQL Server and Postgres, and some nice UI and host monitoring...

EnergyLogix turns to DBmarlin to resolve a customer impacting MariaDB performance bug

EnergyLogix provides industry-leading energy consumption and carbon footprint management solutions that cover over 100,000 utility meters in office, manufacturing and retail locations around the world. With over 10 years of...

Rave Mobile Safety Recommends DBmarlin

Rave Mobile Safety provides the leading critical communication and collaboration platform trusted to help save lives across the US and Canada. Keeping millions of people safe during catastrophic disasters and...

DBmarlin 1.4.0 released

After another month of innovation and bug squashing, we’re pleased to release DBmarlin 1.4. This version includes new features to help you with database and host monitoring.

Scott Moore Goes Fishing for Database Issues

In season 3, episode 1 of The Performance Tour, Scott Moore (Scott Moore Consulting LLC) goes fishing for database issues and fixes them with DBmarlin. Scott is a well known...

DBmarlin First Year Anniversary

February 2020 will always stick in my mind for two main reasons.

DBmarlin 1.3.0 released featuring time comparison reports

We are really excited to bring you the next great release of DBmarlin, that adds our innovative new time comparison reporting to help everyone from load testers to DBAs.

Advanced Database Monitoring with DBmarlin (Webinar)

Today we hosted our first ever Russian webinar thanks to new DBmarlin partner Proto. Thanks to Denis Bezkorovayny and team for setting this up and allowing us to present to...

DBmarlin 1.2.0 released featuring support for Windows

We’re thrilled to bring you another great monthly release that blends new features and enhanced support for Windows users. Customers running on Linux, don’t worry we will have more features...

DBmarlin 1.1.0 released including Host monitoring and improved Explain plans

Today is another milestone for our database monitoring solution, DBmarlin, and the team here at AP towers have kept the speed of development moving apace. The latest 1.1.0 version of...

DBmarlin Video Demo

DBmarlin is a modern, easy to use, cost effective way to better optimise your database performance and understand the impact of changes. 2021 will be a landmark year as we...

DBmarlin Play site launched

For anyone wishing to get hands-on with DBmarlin before deciding whether to try it for themselves, we now have the DBmarlin Play site where anyone can see the product with...

DBMarlin is now available for general release

We’re delighted to have received so much interest in DBmarlin, our next-generation database monitoring tool. We launched in beta in August 2020 and are proud to announce that as of...

Instana link to DBmarlin for deeper database insights

Instana customers may have seen that since yesterday, with the release of 1.191, you now have a new button when looking at database metrics. Scroll to the bottom of the...

The most popular databases 2006 to 2020

We recently announced that DBmarlin now supports the Top 4 databases, and mentioned that the top 4 have remained unchanged for more than 3 years (according to https://db-engines.com/en/ranking).

Instana acquired by IBM

You may have heard the news on Wednesday that IBM are acquiring AP partner Instana.

DBmarlin now supports all of the top 4 database engines

Last week DBmarlin hit a new milestone with support for Microsoft SQL Sever. That means that DBmarlin now supports all of the the top 4 relational databases.

DBmarlin adds support for Microsoft SQL Server

We are pleased to announce that DBmarlin now supports Microsoft SQL Server in addition to Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

DBmarlin new website now live

This week we are pleased to announce that our new DBmarlin website has gone live. This is the place to go for all information on DBmarlin, including the software download,...

DBmarlin Beta now supports Oracle

Hopefully you saw our recent anouncement about DBmarlin launching in closed Beta with support for PostgreSQL and MySQL. Today we are pleased to add Oracle to the list of supported...

Next generation database monitoring tool - DBmarlin reaches beta

Prepare for the next generation of database monitoring. Application Performance Ltd (AP) are thrilled to announce that DBmarlin launched in closed Beta test on 21st August. Anyone wanting to get...

Cambridge SQL Saturday 2016 - Thanks

Application Performance would like to thank the organisers of the Cambridge SQL Saturday for such a well-attended event. As a sponsor it is always gratifying to see so many people dropping by.

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Cambridge SQL Saturday 2016 - Thanks

Application Performance would like to thank the organisers of the Cambridge SQL Saturday for such a well-attended event. As a sponsor it is always gratifying to see so many people dropping by.

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Cambridge SQL Saturday 2016 - Thanks

Application Performance would like to thank the organisers of the Cambridge SQL Saturday for such a well-attended event. As a sponsor it is always gratifying to see so many people dropping by.

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Application Performance Facilitates AppDynamics Tesco Roll Out

AppDynamics is now being used to provide business-wide visibility into the customer experience – both in production and during the test and development phase at Tesco.

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Instana acquired by IBM

You may have heard the news on Wednesday that IBM are acquiring AP partner Instana.

Supercharging AppDynamics with OverOps

OverOps is a platform for software reliability which has the ability to integrate with other tools used through the software development lifecycle such as tools for CI/CD, Bug tracking, Alerting, Reporting, Log...

Looking back at AppDynamics Global Tour London 2019

Last week the AppDynamics Global Tour arrived in London and it was great to meet many of our customers there. The event was aimed at technologists driving transformation in their industries,...

Case Study: ELEXON use AppDynamics APM

ELEXON is vital to the running of the GB electricity wholesale market. Its role is to compare how much electricity generators and suppliers say they will produce or consume against...

Reflections on last night's web performance dinner

Last night we held our second Rigor Web Performance Dinner, where we were joined by some great people from well known brand names, all at various stages of their web...

2018 - Looking back - and some new ideas for 2019

Before jumping into 2019, we would like to thank you for all we accomplished together during the last year! We are proud to be working with you, helping you get the most...

AppDynamics 4.4 New Features

AppDynamics Winter ‘17 product release, also known as version 4.4 of their App iQ Platform, was launched recently. Many SaaS customers will have already been upgraded to this latest version,...

Where are you on the APM maturity curve?

For most organisations Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a journey, not a destination. Here are some of the typical steps along that journey. See where you are in your organisation....

Docker monitoring and why it matters

Last week Dockercon 17took place in Copenhagen so we thought it topical to discuss Docker monitoring and why it matters. In this article we also look at some of the...

Cisco acquires Perspica to add to AppDynamics

Cisco announced today that it intends to acquire Perspica, a machine learning-driven IT operations analytics firm. Cisco intends to fold Perspica’s team into AppDynamics, which it purchased for $3B early...

Should you be looking for an alternative to New Relic?

If you are running the free version of New Relic Server monitoring you will have received an email notifying you that as of November 14th, 2017 New Relic Servers and...

The Cache Effect

One of the main drivers for the adoption of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is the complexity and dynamism of modern applications. Take a simple example - caching.

AP Partner, Control F1, in Northern Tech 100 'Top 10'

Control F1 in Northern Tech top 10 fastest growing companies We’d like to congratulate our long-standing partner Control F1, who have been placed in the top 10 in the fastest...

Interview with AppDynamics: APM, Sector trends & more

Last week AppDynamics interviewed AP co-founder Mick McGuinness ahead of their upcoming AppD Summit Europe Event to talk about APM, sector trends and more. AP are specialist APM consultancy and long-term AppDynamics partner and a Platinum sponsor at...

AppDynamics Spring ’17 release adds features for Developers and Enterprises

AppDynamics Spring ’17 release (also know as version 4.3) brings many new capabilities to visualise the end-to-end performance of your application: from touch, to code, to infrastructure. There is a...

Stepping back from the bleeding edge

As a consultant I often get called in to help organisations improve the performance of their applications. The first requirement is usually to install some monitoring to see what is...

Cisco to acquire AppDynamics

I’m sure that you have all heard the exiting news that Cisco has announced it’s intent to purchase AppDynamics. We have worked with AppDynamics since their first beginnings here in the UK, and...

A brief history of Application Performance Management (APM)

The graphic below looks back at the history of Application Performance Management. Starting from the late 90’s when the first solutions started to appear, such as Precise, Wily, Mecury Interactive...

AppDynamics adds ServiceNow integration

At AppSphere 2016, the AppDynamics annual global conference in Las Vegas last week, we learned about a new integration with ServiceNow. The ServiceNow App is available immediately to download from...

AP Partner AppDynamics score top in new Forrester study

Industry analyst Forrester  recently released their latest analysis of the top 14 application performance management (APM) vendors and evaluated them against 28 criteria. AP partner AppDynamics came out on top when compared...

AP Partner AppDynamics Scores Top in Gartner Report

AP partner AppDynamics has scored top in Gartner’s recent report into Application Performance Management (APM). Ranked against its competitors, AppDynamics garnered the highest scores in all categories which included:

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OverOps Named a 2017 Cool Vendor in Performance Analysis By Gartner

We’re excited to announce that our partner OverOps has been chosen by Gartner to be one of the 2017 Gartner Cool Vendors in Performance Analysis!  Out of over 2,000 developer...

AP Partner AppDynamics Scores Top in Gartner Report

AP partner AppDynamics has scored top in Gartner’s recent report into Application Performance Management (APM). Ranked against its competitors, AppDynamics garnered the highest scores in all categories which included:

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Video - How OverOps can be used to add a Code-Quality Gate to your Jenkins CI Pipeline.

In this short demo we look at how OverOps can be used as a code-quality gate for your Jenkins CI pipeline. 

Did you catch our webinar hosted by the UK OUG ?

On the 14th May,  Martin Pinner of Application Performance presented a webinar, hosted by the UK Oracle User Group, discussing Oracle’s database performance toolsets, and put forward an alternative methodology for...

Devoxx 2019 - put it in your diary now!

Devoxx UK returns to London from the 8-10th May, 2019. This year, as last, AP will be sponsoring, exhibiting and speaking at the event. Put the date in your diary...

UK OUG Webinar - May 2019

Martin Pinner of Application Performance will be presenting a webinar, hosted by the UK Oracle User Group, discussing Oracle’s database performance toolsets, and why they may not be the best...

Join industry experts for Dinner (London 8th Nov)

Join AP and other industry experts for Dinner (London 8th Nov) to discuss ‘How to deliver fast and reliable digital experiences for your end users’. Learn how other companies, like SpecSavers,...

Stop bugs reaching production with OverOps and Jenkins

In this article we will explore the recently released OverOps Query plugin for Jenkins. Combining OverOps with Jenkins as part of a CI pipeline means you can verify every release and...

OverOps turbocharging JIRA

OverOps is a software reliability platform which can detect errors and exceptions in your code, and provide the source code and variable states which caused them. One of the really...

Devoxx 2018 – Post Event Thoughts

While our legs and backs may not have quite fully recovered yet, we are now a week since the successful Devoxx conference ended, and we thought it would be a...

Webinar Recording - The Dark Side of Java Production Monitoring

Automated workflows are the new standard for delivering quality products in an agile environment. Enter Observability, a measure for how well the internal states of a system can be inferred...

Calling all Java Developers - Devoxx 2018 is here

Devoxx UK returns to London 9th – 11th May, 2018 , and will welcome brilliant speakers and attendees for the very best developer content and awesome experiences. This year AP will...

OverOps - The Ultimate Production Environment Debug Tool

Before joining Application Performance, the previous decade of my career was spent mainly delivering e-commerce platforms, especially within the online food delivery business. The majority of the platforms were completely customised...

Avoid the Risks of Increasing your Release Frequency

Trying to speed up innovation? A growing number of organisations use automated processes to help them to innovate faster and release application enhancements more frequently.

AppDynamics 4.4 New Features

AppDynamics Winter ‘17 product release, also known as version 4.4 of their App iQ Platform, was launched recently. Many SaaS customers will have already been upgraded to this latest version,...

Ymor - a company built on a unique application monitoring technology and a fully managed service

At AP we love partnering with innovative companies, and are really pleased to introduce you to Ymor, and their CEO, Martin van den Berge. Martin started Ymor back in 2003,...

AWS Summit London Highlights

On Wednesday last week, AP once again attended the annual AWS Summit in London. Every year, this event gets bigger, and this year there were 6000 attendees and 74 partners...

AWS Summit London 2017

Only 1 day to go until the Amazon AWS Summit London 2017. Application Performance will be there for the third year running. This year 2 of our partners, AppDynamics and...

AP Partner, Control F1, in Northern Tech 100 'Top 10'

Control F1 in Northern Tech top 10 fastest growing companies We’d like to congratulate our long-standing partner Control F1, who have been placed in the top 10 in the fastest...

Pints & Technical Deep Dive Pre-AWS Summit

Turbonomic recently announced major advancements to our hybrid cloud management platform with Turbonomic 5.9, enabling customers to confidently accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud.

AP Partner Foundation SP wins #1 Best place to work 2017

Wow… not just #1 in the UK but now #3 in Europe as well !

RyanAir is always getting better with Turbonomic

RyanAir operate more than 1800 flights per day carrying over 116 million passengers every year. They have a team of more than 10,000 highly skilled aviation professionals delivering Europe’s number...

What does Turbonomic do for Modern Datacenters?

Turbonomic is an application performance control platform that enables you to guarantee the quality of service for those applications whilst using the underlying infrastructure our cloud as efficiently as possible.

CIOs and CTOs Trust Turbonomic

TechValidate found that 90% of CIOs and CTOs trust Turbonomic. This was based on a survey of customers who were highly likely to recommend Turbonomic.

OverOps Named a 2017 Cool Vendor in Performance Analysis By Gartner

We’re excited to announce that our partner OverOps has been chosen by Gartner to be one of the 2017 Gartner Cool Vendors in Performance Analysis!  Out of over 2,000 developer...

Global cyber attack hits businesses who fail to patch their systems

As the repercussions of the WannaCry (or WannaCrypt) RansomWare attack continues this week, it once again highlights the risks cyber attacks pose to businesses around the globe.

Nexthink Webinar: Are you vulnerable to WannaCry?

 Join the webinar to hear Security Expert Matthew Aylard of Nexthink discuss the risks and what can be done to avoid becoming the victim of a cyber attack.

Nexthink for ServiceNow

With the release of v6.10, Nexthink continues to improve its integration with ServiceNow. With Nexthink, the ServiceNow console is populated with real-time end-user analytics that improve incident management, problem management,...

Video Highlights from AppD Summit Europe ‘17

Last week more than 1,000 people from 34 countries gathered at AppD Summit Europe in London. Thank you to everyone who attended to make this APM summit the largest to date...

Nexthink V6.10 is Here!

This latest release brings end-user feedback to new heights! The End-user Feedback module offers a simple yet effective method for gathering direct feedback from end users. It gives you both...

Webinar: New Forrester Research unveils drivers of growing divide between business and IT

 New Forrester Research unveils drivers of growing divide between business and IT.  Join Nexthink for“Three key steps to transform your IT department from a technology gatekeeper to a business enabler”....

Showtime at the AppDynamics Summit Europe

Over 1000 attendees waited expectantly, the numbers buoyed by news of the Cisco acquisition of AppDynamics. Loud music, laser lights and flashing display announced the arrival of David Wadhwani, the...

Fixing application errors and exceptions fast

AppDynamics is great at detecting errors and exceptions in your applications. You can see the frequency at which they are happening and which Business Transactions and Users are affected by...

Interview with AppDynamics: APM, Sector trends & more

Last week AppDynamics interviewed AP co-founder Mick McGuinness ahead of their upcoming AppD Summit Europe Event to talk about APM, sector trends and more. AP are specialist APM consultancy and long-term AppDynamics partner and a Platinum sponsor at...

Ymonitor - Synthetic monitoring for ANY application

AppDynamics does a great job of Synthetic Monitoring for public facing web sites with the ability to proactively ensure application performance and availability anytime from around the world.

Real-Time. Self-Managing. Application Performance.

AppDynamics does a great job of understanding the performance and quality of the user experience delivered by your applications, as well as deep insights into how well the multiple servers,...

AppDynamics Spring ’17 release adds features for Developers and Enterprises

AppDynamics Spring ’17 release (also know as version 4.3) brings many new capabilities to visualise the end-to-end performance of your application: from touch, to code, to infrastructure. There is a...

AppDynamics Summit Europe, 3-4th May 2017

We’re delighted to announce our sponsorship of AppDynamics Summit Europe 2017.

Nexthink V6.9 is coming

Hot on the heels of version 6.8, released back in January 2017, Nexthink v6.9 is just around the corner, and expected to be GA on March 27th 2017.

Monitoring process flow with AppDynamics

Many applications can be thought of as a pipeline, with things being fed in at one end and emerging in a modified form at the other end. Here throughput is...

Why developers at Zynga think logs are a waste of time

Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is a leading developer of the world’s most popular social games that are played by millions of people around the world each day. 

Nexthink V6.8 has arrived

Nexthink V6.8 is with us now, and you are probably asking what it’s all about.

Stepping back from the bleeding edge

As a consultant I often get called in to help organisations improve the performance of their applications. The first requirement is usually to install some monitoring to see what is...

Webinar Recording - How TripAdvisor Solves Production Errors in Minutes

On January 26th, Steve Rogers , Director of Software Engineering at Viator, a TripAdvisor company, talked about how his teams reduce error resolution time from days to minutes.

A brief history of Application Performance Management (APM)

The graphic below looks back at the history of Application Performance Management. Starting from the late 90’s when the first solutions started to appear, such as Precise, Wily, Mecury Interactive...

Nexthink V6.8 is coming

As a reminder, Nexthink V6.7 introduced the End-user Feedback module and Scores. These two components are critical to help better understand and improve what really matters to the business.

Webinar - How TripAdvisor Solves Production Errors in Minutes

On January 26th, Steve Rogers , Director of Software Engineering at Viator, a TripAdvisor company, will share workflows that allow his teams to reduce error resolution time from days to...

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 3

AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the final part of...

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 2

  AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the second of...

So What Does SharePoint Learn from E-Commerce?

Like the delegates who attended Mick McGuinness’ webinar last week on ‘What Can SharePoint Learn from E-commerce’, I was intrigued by the ways in which common SharePoint issues are being...

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 1

AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the first of a...

How to survive an ORACLE Licence audit

For those that were unable to attend the webinar here is the recording.

Gaining the upper hand in Office 365 migration

Gaining the Upper Hand on Your Office 365 Migration

AppDynamics launches Business iQ at AppSphere 2016

Last week at AppDynamics AppSphere we saw the launch of Business iQ. It allows customers to build new business-focused dashboards in order to achieve real-time business monitoring.

AppDynamics adds ServiceNow integration

At AppSphere 2016, the AppDynamics annual global conference in Las Vegas last week, we learned about a new integration with ServiceNow. The ServiceNow App is available immediately to download from...

New slant on you can't manage what you don't measure

Harness your environment using end-user data & analytics for superior insight

Why Service Desk calls are just the tip of the iceberg

IT Service Desks are inherently reactive rather than proactive in nature. A user calls in to log an issue which is then dealt with, but without really understanding how many other...

Use Java?  Want to fix production application errors in 90% less time?

I was really impressed by Nick Durkin’s (OverOps) very focused and very clear webinar about how new OverOps technology is helping resolve Java issues in production environments with record efficiency.

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Video - How OverOps can be used to add a Code-Quality Gate to your Jenkins CI Pipeline.

In this short demo we look at how OverOps can be used as a code-quality gate for your Jenkins CI pipeline. 

Adding performance and code quality gates to Jenkins CI

Recently we recorded a short video (2 mins 58s) to demonstrate how you can enhance your Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline by added additional gates to stop slow or erroneous code...

Supercharging AppDynamics with OverOps

OverOps is a platform for software reliability which has the ability to integrate with other tools used through the software development lifecycle such as tools for CI/CD, Bug tracking, Alerting, Reporting, Log...

OverOps Play Environment

Last week OverOps launched their new Play Environment, that enables you to see how OverOps integrates with other tools that you and your team might use, such as: Splunk, AppDynamics, Jira, Jenkins and...

OverOps Reliability Dashboards Deepen Code-Level Visibility Across the Entire SDLC

OverOps recently announced their new Reliability Scoring capabilities. With this new release, enterprises have deeper visibility in both pre-production and production environments and can automatically identify and prioritise anomalies to...

Turbocharging AppDynamics with OverOps

OverOps is a platform for software reliability which has the ability to integrate with other tools used through the software development lifecycle such as tools for CI/CD, Bug tracking, Alerting, Reporting, Log...

We enjoyed the show at Devoxx 2019

 Well, we had a busy couple of days last week at Devoxx 2019, and all came back with some serious aches.

Supercharge your CI Pipeline? Come see us at Devoxx

If you are running a Continuous Integration pipeline using a tool such as Jenkins, then our upcoming talk is for you. Next week we will be demonstrating 2 new ways...

2018 - Looking back - and some new ideas for 2019

Before jumping into 2019, we would like to thank you for all we accomplished together during the last year! We are proud to be working with you, helping you get the most...

No substitute for reasoning about your software

There is an increasing drive to use tools, such as Jenkins, to help automate post-build tests in continuous integration (CI) pipelines. The overall idea is to improve software quality through the...

Taking a probabilistic approach to fixing bugs

  Does your organisation struggle to fix application errors? Are you able to capture enough information even to understand the problem? Are you able to reproduce the problem? Do you...

OverOps can change the way you code

We have been using OverOps for a while now on the software that we develop at our sister company WebTuna. I am the main developer for WebTuna and I can...

Stop bugs reaching production with OverOps and Jenkins

In this article we will explore the recently released OverOps Query plugin for Jenkins. Combining OverOps with Jenkins as part of a CI pipeline means you can verify every release and...

OverOps turbocharging JIRA

OverOps is a software reliability platform which can detect errors and exceptions in your code, and provide the source code and variable states which caused them. One of the really...

Devoxx 2018 – Post Event Thoughts

While our legs and backs may not have quite fully recovered yet, we are now a week since the successful Devoxx conference ended, and we thought it would be a...

Webinar Recording - The Dark Side of Java Production Monitoring

Automated workflows are the new standard for delivering quality products in an agile environment. Enter Observability, a measure for how well the internal states of a system can be inferred...

OverOps - The Ultimate Production Environment Debug Tool

Before joining Application Performance, the previous decade of my career was spent mainly delivering e-commerce platforms, especially within the online food delivery business. The majority of the platforms were completely customised...

4 Scary Stats Prove why Logs are not the Answer

In this article we explore 4 scary statistics which prove that logs are insufficient for troubleshooting application issues in production.

Avoid the Risks of Increasing your Release Frequency

Trying to speed up innovation? A growing number of organisations use automated processes to help them to innovate faster and release application enhancements more frequently.

New OverOps Feature – Timers

OverOps adds a new feature to time the response time of Java Methods, alert when they exceed their targets, and see the complete source-code and variable states responsible.

Supercharging Splunk with OverOps

OverOps has the ability to integrate with Splunk via a link that will take you to a screen showing the exact code and variables that were used in production at...

Java 9 First Impressions Webinar

Register for the Java 9 First Impressions Webinar Java 9 is here and it’s expected to revolutionize the way we think of and build large scale applications.    In this...

OverOps Named a 2017 Cool Vendor in Performance Analysis By Gartner

We’re excited to announce that our partner OverOps has been chosen by Gartner to be one of the 2017 Gartner Cool Vendors in Performance Analysis!  Out of over 2,000 developer...

Showtime at the AppDynamics Summit Europe

Over 1000 attendees waited expectantly, the numbers buoyed by news of the Cisco acquisition of AppDynamics. Loud music, laser lights and flashing display announced the arrival of David Wadhwani, the...

Fixing application errors and exceptions fast

AppDynamics is great at detecting errors and exceptions in your applications. You can see the frequency at which they are happening and which Business Transactions and Users are affected by...

Why developers at Zynga think logs are a waste of time

Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is a leading developer of the world’s most popular social games that are played by millions of people around the world each day. 

Webinar Recording - How TripAdvisor Solves Production Errors in Minutes

On January 26th, Steve Rogers , Director of Software Engineering at Viator, a TripAdvisor company, talked about how his teams reduce error resolution time from days to minutes.

Webinar - How TripAdvisor Solves Production Errors in Minutes

On January 26th, Steve Rogers , Director of Software Engineering at Viator, a TripAdvisor company, will share workflows that allow his teams to reduce error resolution time from days to...

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 3

AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the final part of...

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 2

  AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the second of...

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 1

AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the first of a...

Use Java?  Want to fix production application errors in 90% less time?

I was really impressed by Nick Durkin’s (OverOps) very focused and very clear webinar about how new OverOps technology is helping resolve Java issues in production environments with record efficiency.

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Devoxx 2019 - put it in your diary now!

Devoxx UK returns to London from the 8-10th May, 2019. This year, as last, AP will be sponsoring, exhibiting and speaking at the event. Put the date in your diary...

Devoxx 2018 – Post Event Thoughts

While our legs and backs may not have quite fully recovered yet, we are now a week since the successful Devoxx conference ended, and we thought it would be a...

Webinar Recording - The Dark Side of Java Production Monitoring

Automated workflows are the new standard for delivering quality products in an agile environment. Enter Observability, a measure for how well the internal states of a system can be inferred...

Calling all Java Developers - Devoxx 2018 is here

Devoxx UK returns to London 9th – 11th May, 2018 , and will welcome brilliant speakers and attendees for the very best developer content and awesome experiences. This year AP will...

Java 9 First Impressions Webinar

Register for the Java 9 First Impressions Webinar Java 9 is here and it’s expected to revolutionize the way we think of and build large scale applications.    In this...

OverOps Named a 2017 Cool Vendor in Performance Analysis By Gartner

We’re excited to announce that our partner OverOps has been chosen by Gartner to be one of the 2017 Gartner Cool Vendors in Performance Analysis!  Out of over 2,000 developer...

Why developers at Zynga think logs are a waste of time

Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is a leading developer of the world’s most popular social games that are played by millions of people around the world each day. 

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 3

AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the final part of...

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 2

  AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the second of...

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 1

AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the first of a...

Use Java?  Want to fix production application errors in 90% less time?

I was really impressed by Nick Durkin’s (OverOps) very focused and very clear webinar about how new OverOps technology is helping resolve Java issues in production environments with record efficiency.

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Webinar – The User is King: Delivering a Great User Experience in SharePoint and Office 365

We are delighted to announce that Peter Baddeley, SharePoint and Office 365 expert is to co-present our forthcoming webinar on User Experience with Mick McGuinness, one of our directors and...

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Webinar – The User is King: Delivering a Great User Experience in SharePoint and Office 365

We are delighted to announce that Peter Baddeley, SharePoint and Office 365 expert is to co-present our forthcoming webinar on User Experience with Mick McGuinness, one of our directors and...

Tag ITSM

Why Service Desk calls are just the tip of the iceberg

IT Service Desks are inherently reactive rather than proactive in nature. A user calls in to log an issue which is then dealt with, but without really understanding how many other...

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Nexthink for ServiceNow

With the release of v6.10, Nexthink continues to improve its integration with ServiceNow. With Nexthink, the ServiceNow console is populated with real-time end-user analytics that improve incident management, problem management,...

Why Service Desk calls are just the tip of the iceberg

IT Service Desks are inherently reactive rather than proactive in nature. A user calls in to log an issue which is then dealt with, but without really understanding how many other...

Tag cmdb

AppDynamics adds ServiceNow integration

At AppSphere 2016, the AppDynamics annual global conference in Las Vegas last week, we learned about a new integration with ServiceNow. The ServiceNow App is available immediately to download from...

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AppDynamics launches Business iQ at AppSphere 2016

Last week at AppDynamics AppSphere we saw the launch of Business iQ. It allows customers to build new business-focused dashboards in order to achieve real-time business monitoring.

Tag appsphere

AppDynamics launches Business iQ at AppSphere 2016

Last week at AppDynamics AppSphere we saw the launch of Business iQ. It allows customers to build new business-focused dashboards in order to achieve real-time business monitoring.

Tag Oracle

Rave Mobile Safety Recommends DBmarlin

Rave Mobile Safety provides the leading critical communication and collaboration platform trusted to help save lives across the US and Canada. Keeping millions of people safe during catastrophic disasters and...

DBmarlin 1.4.0 released

After another month of innovation and bug squashing, we’re pleased to release DBmarlin 1.4. This version includes new features to help you with database and host monitoring.

DBmarlin First Year Anniversary

February 2020 will always stick in my mind for two main reasons.

DBmarlin 1.3.0 released featuring time comparison reports

We are really excited to bring you the next great release of DBmarlin, that adds our innovative new time comparison reporting to help everyone from load testers to DBAs.

Advanced Database Monitoring with DBmarlin (Webinar)

Today we hosted our first ever Russian webinar thanks to new DBmarlin partner Proto. Thanks to Denis Bezkorovayny and team for setting this up and allowing us to present to...

DBmarlin 1.2.0 released featuring support for Windows

We’re thrilled to bring you another great monthly release that blends new features and enhanced support for Windows users. Customers running on Linux, don’t worry we will have more features...

DBmarlin 1.1.0 released including Host monitoring and improved Explain plans

Today is another milestone for our database monitoring solution, DBmarlin, and the team here at AP towers have kept the speed of development moving apace. The latest 1.1.0 version of...

DBmarlin Video Demo

DBmarlin is a modern, easy to use, cost effective way to better optimise your database performance and understand the impact of changes. 2021 will be a landmark year as we...

DBmarlin Play site launched

For anyone wishing to get hands-on with DBmarlin before deciding whether to try it for themselves, we now have the DBmarlin Play site where anyone can see the product with...

DBMarlin is now available for general release

We’re delighted to have received so much interest in DBmarlin, our next-generation database monitoring tool. We launched in beta in August 2020 and are proud to announce that as of...

Instana link to DBmarlin for deeper database insights

Instana customers may have seen that since yesterday, with the release of 1.191, you now have a new button when looking at database metrics. Scroll to the bottom of the...

The most popular databases 2006 to 2020

We recently announced that DBmarlin now supports the Top 4 databases, and mentioned that the top 4 have remained unchanged for more than 3 years (according to https://db-engines.com/en/ranking).

DBmarlin now supports all of the top 4 database engines

Last week DBmarlin hit a new milestone with support for Microsoft SQL Sever. That means that DBmarlin now supports all of the the top 4 relational databases.

DBmarlin adds support for Microsoft SQL Server

We are pleased to announce that DBmarlin now supports Microsoft SQL Server in addition to Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

DBmarlin new website now live

This week we are pleased to announce that our new DBmarlin website has gone live. This is the place to go for all information on DBmarlin, including the software download,...

DBmarlin Beta now supports Oracle

Hopefully you saw our recent anouncement about DBmarlin launching in closed Beta with support for PostgreSQL and MySQL. Today we are pleased to add Oracle to the list of supported...

Next generation database monitoring tool - DBmarlin reaches beta

Prepare for the next generation of database monitoring. Application Performance Ltd (AP) are thrilled to announce that DBmarlin launched in closed Beta test on 21st August. Anyone wanting to get...

UK OUG webinar: Oracle edition survey results

During our recent UK OUG webinar, on 14 May, entitled “Escaping the limitations of the Oracle performance tuning tools”, we ran a survey asking “In your organisation, what is the...

Reflections on the UK OUG - Midlands Tech Summit.

Thanks to all who came to see us at the UK Oracle User Group Midlands Tech Summit in Northampton yesterday where AP were both an exhibitor and speaker.

See us at the UK Oracle User Group on 28th Feb

Next Thursday, 28th February, AP will be sponsoring, speaking and exhibiting at the UK Oracle User Group Midlands Tech Summit in Northampton.

Introducing DBTao: the new way to unlock your hidden ORACLE performance

Ever wanted a quick way to optimise your Oracle database, without spending days trawling through Explain Plans and schema stats?

How to survive an ORACLE Licence audit

For those that were unable to attend the webinar here is the recording.

Tag license

How to survive an ORACLE Licence audit

For those that were unable to attend the webinar here is the recording.

Tag errors

No substitute for reasoning about your software

There is an increasing drive to use tools, such as Jenkins, to help automate post-build tests in continuous integration (CI) pipelines. The overall idea is to improve software quality through the...

Taking a probabilistic approach to fixing bugs

  Does your organisation struggle to fix application errors? Are you able to capture enough information even to understand the problem? Are you able to reproduce the problem? Do you...

Why developers at Zynga think logs are a waste of time

Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is a leading developer of the world’s most popular social games that are played by millions of people around the world each day. 

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 3

AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the final part of...

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 2

  AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the second of...

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 1

AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the first of a...

Tag exceptions

No substitute for reasoning about your software

There is an increasing drive to use tools, such as Jenkins, to help automate post-build tests in continuous integration (CI) pipelines. The overall idea is to improve software quality through the...

Why developers at Zynga think logs are a waste of time

Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is a leading developer of the world’s most popular social games that are played by millions of people around the world each day. 

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 3

AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the final part of...

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 2

  AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the second of...

A guide to solving Java application errors in production - part 1

AP is proud to sponsor “The complete guide to Solving Java Application Errors in Production” written by Alex Zhitnitsky at our friends OverOps. This blog is the first of a...

Tag CGI

Tag End user experience

Are you ready for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2019?

This post may seem very early, but the upcoming Amazon Prime Day this week (15-16th July 2019) is a good reminder that as an e-commerce platform you really do need...

Are you ready for Black Friday 2018?

We’re now well into November, and the ‘Christmas’ word is getting bandied about in various adverts and social media outlets. 

Ymor - a company built on a unique application monitoring technology and a fully managed service

At AP we love partnering with innovative companies, and are really pleased to introduce you to Ymor, and their CEO, Martin van den Berge. Martin started Ymor back in 2003,...

Nexthink V6.9 is coming

Hot on the heels of version 6.8, released back in January 2017, Nexthink v6.9 is just around the corner, and expected to be GA on March 27th 2017.

Nexthink V6.8 has arrived

Nexthink V6.8 is with us now, and you are probably asking what it’s all about.

Nexthink V6.8 is coming

As a reminder, Nexthink V6.7 introduced the End-user Feedback module and Scores. These two components are critical to help better understand and improve what really matters to the business.

Tag Turbonomic

Turbonomic 6.0 Release Webinar Recording

With Turbonomic’s previous release, they extended their platform’s on-premises capabilities with new support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure public cloud environments. In Turbonomic 6.0 they are going...

Turbonomic 6.0 Webinar

Join the Turbonomic v6.0 Release Webinar

Join Turbonomic and Node4 to learn about infrastructure consumption, costs and compliance

As a Turbonomic partner we invite you to participate in a discussion with your peers around consumption, costs and compliance constraints.

Cisco and Turbonomic Partnership

Application Performance are a partner of Turbonomic and also Cisco now through their acquisition of AppDynamics. So we followed with interest their recently announced partnership.

AWS Summit London Highlights

On Wednesday last week, AP once again attended the annual AWS Summit in London. Every year, this event gets bigger, and this year there were 6000 attendees and 74 partners...

AWS Summit London 2017

Only 1 day to go until the Amazon AWS Summit London 2017. Application Performance will be there for the third year running. This year 2 of our partners, AppDynamics and...

Pints & Technical Deep Dive Pre-AWS Summit

Turbonomic recently announced major advancements to our hybrid cloud management platform with Turbonomic 5.9, enabling customers to confidently accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud.

RyanAir is always getting better with Turbonomic

RyanAir operate more than 1800 flights per day carrying over 116 million passengers every year. They have a team of more than 10,000 highly skilled aviation professionals delivering Europe’s number...

What does Turbonomic do for Modern Datacenters?

Turbonomic is an application performance control platform that enables you to guarantee the quality of service for those applications whilst using the underlying infrastructure our cloud as efficiently as possible.

CIOs and CTOs Trust Turbonomic

TechValidate found that 90% of CIOs and CTOs trust Turbonomic. This was based on a survey of customers who were highly likely to recommend Turbonomic.

Showtime at the AppDynamics Summit Europe

Over 1000 attendees waited expectantly, the numbers buoyed by news of the Cisco acquisition of AppDynamics. Loud music, laser lights and flashing display announced the arrival of David Wadhwani, the...

Real-Time. Self-Managing. Application Performance.

AppDynamics does a great job of understanding the performance and quality of the user experience delivered by your applications, as well as deep insights into how well the multiple servers,...

Tag Metalogix

Webinar: Six Things You Need to Know Before Migrating to Office 365 and SharePoint Online

We are delighted to announce our forthcoming webinar with digital strategists Metalogix on Six Things You Need to Know Before Migrating to Office 365 and SharePoint Online on 3 March....

Tag ymonitor

Objective Measurement of End user Experiences using Ymonitor

Sadly, it is not uncommon for IT incidents to be spotted first by end-users rather than IT monitoring. Poor availability and slow performance of an application result in frustration among...

Ymor - a company built on a unique application monitoring technology and a fully managed service

At AP we love partnering with innovative companies, and are really pleased to introduce you to Ymor, and their CEO, Martin van den Berge. Martin started Ymor back in 2003,...

Showtime at the AppDynamics Summit Europe

Over 1000 attendees waited expectantly, the numbers buoyed by news of the Cisco acquisition of AppDynamics. Loud music, laser lights and flashing display announced the arrival of David Wadhwani, the...

Ymonitor - Synthetic monitoring for ANY application

AppDynamics does a great job of Synthetic Monitoring for public facing web sites with the ability to proactively ensure application performance and availability anytime from around the world.

Tag Synthetic monitoring

Building Faster Experiences with Continuous Performance

These days delivering a fast web application is not an option, it is an essential. Users expect fast response times otherwise the user experience is impaired and they will stop...

What is RUM, and how does it differ to Synthetics?

When you start researching and looking into web performance and monitoring, you are bound to come across several words and acronyms; EUM (End User Monitoring), Synthetic Monitoring, RUM (Real User...

Webinar: 2018 Holiday Web Performance Trends & Lessons Learned

You may have seen our recent Are you ready for Black Friday 2018? blog and the follow up article Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps. For any retailer...

Are you ready for Black Friday 2018?

We’re now well into November, and the ‘Christmas’ word is getting bandied about in various adverts and social media outlets. 

Join industry experts for Dinner (London 8th Nov)

Join AP and other industry experts for Dinner (London 8th Nov) to discuss ‘How to deliver fast and reliable digital experiences for your end users’. Learn how other companies, like SpecSavers,...

Objective Measurement of End user Experiences using Ymonitor

Sadly, it is not uncommon for IT incidents to be spotted first by end-users rather than IT monitoring. Poor availability and slow performance of an application result in frustration among...

Ymonitor - Synthetic monitoring for ANY application

AppDynamics does a great job of Synthetic Monitoring for public facing web sites with the ability to proactively ensure application performance and availability anytime from around the world.

Tag Forrester

Webinar: New Forrester Research unveils drivers of growing divide between business and IT

 New Forrester Research unveils drivers of growing divide between business and IT.  Join Nexthink for“Three key steps to transform your IT department from a technology gatekeeper to a business enabler”....

Tag servicenow

Nexthink for ServiceNow

With the release of v6.10, Nexthink continues to improve its integration with ServiceNow. With Nexthink, the ServiceNow console is populated with real-time end-user analytics that improve incident management, problem management,...

Tag security

Global cyber attack hits businesses who fail to patch their systems

As the repercussions of the WannaCry (or WannaCrypt) RansomWare attack continues this week, it once again highlights the risks cyber attacks pose to businesses around the globe.

Nexthink Webinar: Are you vulnerable to WannaCry?

 Join the webinar to hear Security Expert Matthew Aylard of Nexthink discuss the risks and what can be done to avoid becoming the victim of a cyber attack.

Tag AWS

EnergyLogix turns to DBmarlin to resolve a customer impacting MariaDB performance bug

EnergyLogix provides industry-leading energy consumption and carbon footprint management solutions that cover over 100,000 utility meters in office, manufacturing and retail locations around the world. With over 10 years of...

Turbonomic 6.0 Webinar

Join the Turbonomic v6.0 Release Webinar

AWS Summit London Highlights

On Wednesday last week, AP once again attended the annual AWS Summit in London. Every year, this event gets bigger, and this year there were 6000 attendees and 74 partners...

AWS Summit London 2017

Only 1 day to go until the Amazon AWS Summit London 2017. Application Performance will be there for the third year running. This year 2 of our partners, AppDynamics and...

Tag Cisco

Cisco and Turbonomic Partnership

Application Performance are a partner of Turbonomic and also Cisco now through their acquisition of AppDynamics. So we followed with interest their recently announced partnership.

Tag hybrid cloud

Turbonomic 6.0 Webinar

Join the Turbonomic v6.0 Release Webinar

Tag Azure

Turbonomic 6.0 Webinar

Join the Turbonomic v6.0 Release Webinar

Tag vmware

Why Hunting Zombie VMs Can Save Money

With Halloween only a couple of weeks away, we thought we would take a look at Zombie VMs and how you can eradicate them from your virtualised datacenter. Unlike the...

Tag opsdatastore

Why Hunting Zombie VMs Can Save Money

With Halloween only a couple of weeks away, we thought we would take a look at Zombie VMs and how you can eradicate them from your virtualised datacenter. Unlike the...

Tag machine learning

Cisco acquires Perspica to add to AppDynamics

Cisco announced today that it intends to acquire Perspica, a machine learning-driven IT operations analytics firm. Cisco intends to fold Perspica’s team into AppDynamics, which it purchased for $3B early...

Tag ITOA

Cisco acquires Perspica to add to AppDynamics

Cisco announced today that it intends to acquire Perspica, a machine learning-driven IT operations analytics firm. Cisco intends to fold Perspica’s team into AppDynamics, which it purchased for $3B early...

Tag docker

Docker monitoring and why it matters

Last week Dockercon 17took place in Copenhagen so we thought it topical to discuss Docker monitoring and why it matters. In this article we also look at some of the...

Tag microservices

Docker monitoring and why it matters

Last week Dockercon 17took place in Copenhagen so we thought it topical to discuss Docker monitoring and why it matters. In this article we also look at some of the...

Tag containers

Docker monitoring and why it matters

Last week Dockercon 17took place in Copenhagen so we thought it topical to discuss Docker monitoring and why it matters. In this article we also look at some of the...

Tag web performance

Video - How Rigor can be used to add a Performance Gate to your Jenkins CI Pipeline.

In this short demo we look at how Rigor can be used as a performance gate for your Jenkins CI pipeline. 

Try our new FREE Web Performance Report

Last week we launched a new free web performance report on our website. The report is generated using the optimisation engine from our partner Rigor who analyse your website against a database...

Want a fast web site? Then you need to know what you are doing!

During my developer career, I have come across developers and teams who do not know or appreciate the importance of web performance, and quite often it can be treated as...

Reflections on last night's web performance dinner

Last night we held our second Rigor Web Performance Dinner, where we were joined by some great people from well known brand names, all at various stages of their web...

Domain Sharding – is it still relevant?

Continuing with our recent Rigor announcement, I was recently questioned over some advice I had given on domain sharding, and whether it was still relevant today.

Join Rigor and AP for a web performance industry dinner

After the success of our last industry dinner in November 2018, we are pleased to hold another at Gaucho (City) London. We look forward to you joining the informal discussion...

Rigor - more than just web performance monitoring

You may have seen our recent announcement, but if not, we’re pleased to reveal that we are now officially the sole UK representative of Rigor; we look forward to helping many more businesses enjoy...

2018 - Looking back - and some new ideas for 2019

Before jumping into 2019, we would like to thank you for all we accomplished together during the last year! We are proud to be working with you, helping you get the most...

Does web performance really matter?

Have you ever wondered if web performance is important, and if so why? What if your website is slow, what does it mean to you and your business? And conversely,...

Alibaba hits a record $25.3bn and 1.48bn transactions for Singles Day

### You’ve heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but what about Singles Day?

Tag Maturity Curve

Where are you on the APM maturity curve?

For most organisations Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a journey, not a destination. Here are some of the typical steps along that journey. See where you are in your organisation....

Tag JIRA

OverOps turbocharging JIRA

OverOps is a software reliability platform which can detect errors and exceptions in your code, and provide the source code and variable states which caused them. One of the really...

Tag jenkins

Video - How OverOps can be used to add a Code-Quality Gate to your Jenkins CI Pipeline.

In this short demo we look at how OverOps can be used as a code-quality gate for your Jenkins CI pipeline. 

Adding performance and code quality gates to Jenkins CI

Recently we recorded a short video (2 mins 58s) to demonstrate how you can enhance your Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline by added additional gates to stop slow or erroneous code...

We enjoyed the show at Devoxx 2019

 Well, we had a busy couple of days last week at Devoxx 2019, and all came back with some serious aches.

Supercharge your CI Pipeline? Come see us at Devoxx

If you are running a Continuous Integration pipeline using a tool such as Jenkins, then our upcoming talk is for you. Next week we will be demonstrating 2 new ways...

No substitute for reasoning about your software

There is an increasing drive to use tools, such as Jenkins, to help automate post-build tests in continuous integration (CI) pipelines. The overall idea is to improve software quality through the...

Stop bugs reaching production with OverOps and Jenkins

In this article we will explore the recently released OverOps Query plugin for Jenkins. Combining OverOps with Jenkins as part of a CI pipeline means you can verify every release and...

Tag alerting

Are you ready for Black Friday 2018?

We’re now well into November, and the ‘Christmas’ word is getting bandied about in various adverts and social media outlets. 

Tag sales

Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps

For the consumer, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now fading in memory, the only remnants being a pile of cardboard packaging sticking out of the top of their recycling...

Tag blackfriday

Webinar: 2018 Holiday Web Performance Trends & Lessons Learned

You may have seen our recent Are you ready for Black Friday 2018? blog and the follow up article Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps. For any retailer...

Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps

For the consumer, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now fading in memory, the only remnants being a pile of cardboard packaging sticking out of the top of their recycling...

Tag cybermonday

Webinar: 2018 Holiday Web Performance Trends & Lessons Learned

You may have seen our recent Are you ready for Black Friday 2018? blog and the follow up article Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps. For any retailer...

Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps

For the consumer, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now fading in memory, the only remnants being a pile of cardboard packaging sticking out of the top of their recycling...

Tag thanksgiving

Webinar: 2018 Holiday Web Performance Trends & Lessons Learned

You may have seen our recent Are you ready for Black Friday 2018? blog and the follow up article Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps. For any retailer...

Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps

For the consumer, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now fading in memory, the only remnants being a pile of cardboard packaging sticking out of the top of their recycling...

Tag website

Try our new FREE Web Performance Report

Last week we launched a new free web performance report on our website. The report is generated using the optimisation engine from our partner Rigor who analyse your website against a database...

Reflections on last night's web performance dinner

Last night we held our second Rigor Web Performance Dinner, where we were joined by some great people from well known brand names, all at various stages of their web...

Does web performance really matter?

Have you ever wondered if web performance is important, and if so why? What if your website is slow, what does it mean to you and your business? And conversely,...

Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps

For the consumer, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now fading in memory, the only remnants being a pile of cardboard packaging sticking out of the top of their recycling...

Tag crash

Webinar: 2018 Holiday Web Performance Trends & Lessons Learned

You may have seen our recent Are you ready for Black Friday 2018? blog and the follow up article Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps. For any retailer...

Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps

For the consumer, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now fading in memory, the only remnants being a pile of cardboard packaging sticking out of the top of their recycling...

Tag outage

Webinar: 2018 Holiday Web Performance Trends & Lessons Learned

You may have seen our recent Are you ready for Black Friday 2018? blog and the follow up article Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps. For any retailer...

Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps

For the consumer, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now fading in memory, the only remnants being a pile of cardboard packaging sticking out of the top of their recycling...

Tag downtime

Webinar: 2018 Holiday Web Performance Trends & Lessons Learned

You may have seen our recent Are you ready for Black Friday 2018? blog and the follow up article Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps. For any retailer...

Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps

For the consumer, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now fading in memory, the only remnants being a pile of cardboard packaging sticking out of the top of their recycling...

Tag revenue

Reflections on last night's web performance dinner

Last night we held our second Rigor Web Performance Dinner, where we were joined by some great people from well known brand names, all at various stages of their web...

Does web performance really matter?

Have you ever wondered if web performance is important, and if so why? What if your website is slow, what does it mean to you and your business? And conversely,...

Webinar: 2018 Holiday Web Performance Trends & Lessons Learned

You may have seen our recent Are you ready for Black Friday 2018? blog and the follow up article Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps. For any retailer...

Black Friday, the winners and losers and next steps

For the consumer, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now fading in memory, the only remnants being a pile of cardboard packaging sticking out of the top of their recycling...

Tag conversion

Reflections on last night's web performance dinner

Last night we held our second Rigor Web Performance Dinner, where we were joined by some great people from well known brand names, all at various stages of their web...

Does web performance really matter?

Have you ever wondered if web performance is important, and if so why? What if your website is slow, what does it mean to you and your business? And conversely,...

Tag bounce rate

Does web performance really matter?

Have you ever wondered if web performance is important, and if so why? What if your website is slow, what does it mean to you and your business? And conversely,...

Tag DBTao

UK OUG webinar: Oracle edition survey results

During our recent UK OUG webinar, on 14 May, entitled “Escaping the limitations of the Oracle performance tuning tools”, we ran a survey asking “In your organisation, what is the...

Did you catch our webinar hosted by the UK OUG ?

On the 14th May,  Martin Pinner of Application Performance presented a webinar, hosted by the UK Oracle User Group, discussing Oracle’s database performance toolsets, and put forward an alternative methodology for...

UK OUG Webinar - May 2019

Martin Pinner of Application Performance will be presenting a webinar, hosted by the UK Oracle User Group, discussing Oracle’s database performance toolsets, and why they may not be the best...

See us at the UK Oracle User Group on 28th Feb

Next Thursday, 28th February, AP will be sponsoring, speaking and exhibiting at the UK Oracle User Group Midlands Tech Summit in Northampton.

2018 - Looking back - and some new ideas for 2019

Before jumping into 2019, we would like to thank you for all we accomplished together during the last year! We are proud to be working with you, helping you get the most...

Tag Rigor

Google Lighthouse score, could this be the lowest you’ve ever seen?

We happened upon a website recently, following an unrelated Google search and, out of curiosity, decided to run a Rigor performance test against it, due to its tardy response. The...

Video - How Rigor can be used to add a Performance Gate to your Jenkins CI Pipeline.

In this short demo we look at how Rigor can be used as a performance gate for your Jenkins CI pipeline. 

Adding performance and code quality gates to Jenkins CI

Recently we recorded a short video (2 mins 58s) to demonstrate how you can enhance your Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline by added additional gates to stop slow or erroneous code...

Are you ready for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2019?

This post may seem very early, but the upcoming Amazon Prime Day this week (15-16th July 2019) is a good reminder that as an e-commerce platform you really do need...

We enjoyed the show at Devoxx 2019

 Well, we had a busy couple of days last week at Devoxx 2019, and all came back with some serious aches.

Supercharge your CI Pipeline? Come see us at Devoxx

If you are running a Continuous Integration pipeline using a tool such as Jenkins, then our upcoming talk is for you. Next week we will be demonstrating 2 new ways...

What is RUM, and how does it differ to Synthetics?

When you start researching and looking into web performance and monitoring, you are bound to come across several words and acronyms; EUM (End User Monitoring), Synthetic Monitoring, RUM (Real User...

Reflections on last night's web performance dinner

Last night we held our second Rigor Web Performance Dinner, where we were joined by some great people from well known brand names, all at various stages of their web...

Domain Sharding – is it still relevant?

Continuing with our recent Rigor announcement, I was recently questioned over some advice I had given on domain sharding, and whether it was still relevant today.

Join Rigor and AP for a web performance industry dinner

After the success of our last industry dinner in November 2018, we are pleased to hold another at Gaucho (City) London. We look forward to you joining the informal discussion...

Rigor - more than just web performance monitoring

You may have seen our recent announcement, but if not, we’re pleased to reveal that we are now officially the sole UK representative of Rigor; we look forward to helping many more businesses enjoy...

Announcing our Partnership with Rigor

Rigor and Application Performance announce UK web performance monitoring and optimisation partnership. 

2018 - Looking back - and some new ideas for 2019

Before jumping into 2019, we would like to thank you for all we accomplished together during the last year! We are proud to be working with you, helping you get the most...

Tag domain-sharding

Domain Sharding – is it still relevant?

Continuing with our recent Rigor announcement, I was recently questioned over some advice I had given on domain sharding, and whether it was still relevant today.

Tag HTTP

Domain Sharding – is it still relevant?

Continuing with our recent Rigor announcement, I was recently questioned over some advice I had given on domain sharding, and whether it was still relevant today.

Tag metrics

Reflections on last night's web performance dinner

Last night we held our second Rigor Web Performance Dinner, where we were joined by some great people from well known brand names, all at various stages of their web...

Tag End User Experience

Want a fast web site? Then you need to know what you are doing!

During my developer career, I have come across developers and teams who do not know or appreciate the importance of web performance, and quite often it can be treated as...

Tag EUM

Want a fast web site? Then you need to know what you are doing!

During my developer career, I have come across developers and teams who do not know or appreciate the importance of web performance, and quite often it can be treated as...

Tag RUM

Want a fast web site? Then you need to know what you are doing!

During my developer career, I have come across developers and teams who do not know or appreciate the importance of web performance, and quite often it can be treated as...

Tag rum

Building Faster Experiences with Continuous Performance

These days delivering a fast web application is not an option, it is an essential. Users expect fast response times otherwise the user experience is impaired and they will stop...

What is RUM, and how does it differ to Synthetics?

When you start researching and looking into web performance and monitoring, you are bound to come across several words and acronyms; EUM (End User Monitoring), Synthetic Monitoring, RUM (Real User...

Tag eum

Building Faster Experiences with Continuous Performance

These days delivering a fast web application is not an option, it is an essential. Users expect fast response times otherwise the user experience is impaired and they will stop...

What is RUM, and how does it differ to Synthetics?

When you start researching and looking into web performance and monitoring, you are bound to come across several words and acronyms; EUM (End User Monitoring), Synthetic Monitoring, RUM (Real User...

Tag CI

Video - How Rigor can be used to add a Performance Gate to your Jenkins CI Pipeline.

In this short demo we look at how Rigor can be used as a performance gate for your Jenkins CI pipeline. 

Video - How OverOps can be used to add a Code-Quality Gate to your Jenkins CI Pipeline.

In this short demo we look at how OverOps can be used as a code-quality gate for your Jenkins CI pipeline. 

Adding performance and code quality gates to Jenkins CI

Recently we recorded a short video (2 mins 58s) to demonstrate how you can enhance your Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline by added additional gates to stop slow or erroneous code...

We enjoyed the show at Devoxx 2019

 Well, we had a busy couple of days last week at Devoxx 2019, and all came back with some serious aches.

Supercharge your CI Pipeline? Come see us at Devoxx

If you are running a Continuous Integration pipeline using a tool such as Jenkins, then our upcoming talk is for you. Next week we will be demonstrating 2 new ways...

Building Faster Experiences with Continuous Performance

These days delivering a fast web application is not an option, it is an essential. Users expect fast response times otherwise the user experience is impaired and they will stop...

Tag CD

Video - How Rigor can be used to add a Performance Gate to your Jenkins CI Pipeline.

In this short demo we look at how Rigor can be used as a performance gate for your Jenkins CI pipeline. 

Video - How OverOps can be used to add a Code-Quality Gate to your Jenkins CI Pipeline.

In this short demo we look at how OverOps can be used as a code-quality gate for your Jenkins CI pipeline. 

Building Faster Experiences with Continuous Performance

These days delivering a fast web application is not an option, it is an essential. Users expect fast response times otherwise the user experience is impaired and they will stop...

Tag devoxx

We enjoyed the show at Devoxx 2019

 Well, we had a busy couple of days last week at Devoxx 2019, and all came back with some serious aches.

Supercharge your CI Pipeline? Come see us at Devoxx

If you are running a Continuous Integration pipeline using a tool such as Jenkins, then our upcoming talk is for you. Next week we will be demonstrating 2 new ways...

Tag AIOps

Looking back at AppDynamics Global Tour London 2019

Last week the AppDynamics Global Tour arrived in London and it was great to meet many of our customers there. The event was aimed at technologists driving transformation in their industries,...

Tag Application Performance

What's happened to this blog?

You may be wondering what’s been happening at AP and why our blog here hasn’t been updated in a while?

DBmarlin 1.5.1 released

Version 1.5 is another landmark DBmarlin release with added support for CockroachDB as well as important additional features for SQL Server and Postgres, and some nice UI and host monitoring...

EnergyLogix turns to DBmarlin to resolve a customer impacting MariaDB performance bug

EnergyLogix provides industry-leading energy consumption and carbon footprint management solutions that cover over 100,000 utility meters in office, manufacturing and retail locations around the world. With over 10 years of...

Rave Mobile Safety Recommends DBmarlin

Rave Mobile Safety provides the leading critical communication and collaboration platform trusted to help save lives across the US and Canada. Keeping millions of people safe during catastrophic disasters and...

DBmarlin 1.4.0 released

After another month of innovation and bug squashing, we’re pleased to release DBmarlin 1.4. This version includes new features to help you with database and host monitoring.

Scott Moore Goes Fishing for Database Issues

In season 3, episode 1 of The Performance Tour, Scott Moore (Scott Moore Consulting LLC) goes fishing for database issues and fixes them with DBmarlin. Scott is a well known...

DBmarlin First Year Anniversary

February 2020 will always stick in my mind for two main reasons.

DBmarlin 1.3.0 released featuring time comparison reports

We are really excited to bring you the next great release of DBmarlin, that adds our innovative new time comparison reporting to help everyone from load testers to DBAs.

Advanced Database Monitoring with DBmarlin (Webinar)

Today we hosted our first ever Russian webinar thanks to new DBmarlin partner Proto. Thanks to Denis Bezkorovayny and team for setting this up and allowing us to present to...

DBmarlin 1.2.0 released featuring support for Windows

We’re thrilled to bring you another great monthly release that blends new features and enhanced support for Windows users. Customers running on Linux, don’t worry we will have more features...

DBmarlin 1.1.0 released including Host monitoring and improved Explain plans

Today is another milestone for our database monitoring solution, DBmarlin, and the team here at AP towers have kept the speed of development moving apace. The latest 1.1.0 version of...

DBmarlin Video Demo

DBmarlin is a modern, easy to use, cost effective way to better optimise your database performance and understand the impact of changes. 2021 will be a landmark year as we...

Instead of Celebrating in 2020, we’re Donating to Food Banks

To celebrate the release of DBmarlin as a GA product, the AP team agreed that we wanted to do something to give back to our communities, especially during the pandemic....

DBmarlin Play site launched

For anyone wishing to get hands-on with DBmarlin before deciding whether to try it for themselves, we now have the DBmarlin Play site where anyone can see the product with...

DBMarlin is now available for general release

We’re delighted to have received so much interest in DBmarlin, our next-generation database monitoring tool. We launched in beta in August 2020 and are proud to announce that as of...

Instana link to DBmarlin for deeper database insights

Instana customers may have seen that since yesterday, with the release of 1.191, you now have a new button when looking at database metrics. Scroll to the bottom of the...

The most popular databases 2006 to 2020

We recently announced that DBmarlin now supports the Top 4 databases, and mentioned that the top 4 have remained unchanged for more than 3 years (according to https://db-engines.com/en/ranking).

Instana acquired by IBM

You may have heard the news on Wednesday that IBM are acquiring AP partner Instana.

DBmarlin now supports all of the top 4 database engines

Last week DBmarlin hit a new milestone with support for Microsoft SQL Sever. That means that DBmarlin now supports all of the the top 4 relational databases.

DBmarlin adds support for Microsoft SQL Server

We are pleased to announce that DBmarlin now supports Microsoft SQL Server in addition to Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

DBmarlin new website now live

This week we are pleased to announce that our new DBmarlin website has gone live. This is the place to go for all information on DBmarlin, including the software download,...

DBmarlin Beta now supports Oracle

Hopefully you saw our recent anouncement about DBmarlin launching in closed Beta with support for PostgreSQL and MySQL. Today we are pleased to add Oracle to the list of supported...

Next generation database monitoring tool - DBmarlin reaches beta

Prepare for the next generation of database monitoring. Application Performance Ltd (AP) are thrilled to announce that DBmarlin launched in closed Beta test on 21st August. Anyone wanting to get...

Why do we partner with and recommend Instana?

We’ve partnered with Instana since 2016, when they first came to market with a refreshingly modern and easy-to-deploy infrastructure monitoring tool. This quickly evolved into a fully-fledged Application Performance Management...

Monitoring Kubernetes with the AppDynamics Cluster Agent

At Application Performance, as independent application performance specialists, we take a keen interest in the capabilities of the major APM vendors. When it comes to monitoring Kubernetes in particular, application...

Supercharging AppDynamics with OverOps

OverOps is a platform for software reliability which has the ability to integrate with other tools used through the software development lifecycle such as tools for CI/CD, Bug tracking, Alerting, Reporting, Log...

Tag DevOps

Video - How Rigor can be used to add a Performance Gate to your Jenkins CI Pipeline.

In this short demo we look at how Rigor can be used as a performance gate for your Jenkins CI pipeline. 

Adding performance and code quality gates to Jenkins CI

Recently we recorded a short video (2 mins 58s) to demonstrate how you can enhance your Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline by added additional gates to stop slow or erroneous code...

Tag agile

Adding performance and code quality gates to Jenkins CI

Recently we recorded a short video (2 mins 58s) to demonstrate how you can enhance your Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline by added additional gates to stop slow or erroneous code...

Tag Jekyll

Why we moved our blog from WordPress to Jekyll

Last year we made the decision to move both our blogs (blog.applicationperformance.com and blog.webtuna.com) to a Jekyll generated static site. Static sites are in fashion right now because they are...

Tag JAMStack

Why we moved our blog from WordPress to Jekyll

Last year we made the decision to move both our blogs (blog.applicationperformance.com and blog.webtuna.com) to a Jekyll generated static site. Static sites are in fashion right now because they are...

Tag WordPress

Why we moved our blog from WordPress to Jekyll

Last year we made the decision to move both our blogs (blog.applicationperformance.com and blog.webtuna.com) to a Jekyll generated static site. Static sites are in fashion right now because they are...

Tag COVID-19

DIY during lockdown? – Join the queue… maybe forever!

We are living in unprecedented times, doing unprecedented things, and living in an unprecedented way… Things that we took for granted, only a month ago, are now distant memories. We’re...

Our commitment to customers during the COVID-19 crisis

Dear Customers and Partners, we want to take a moment to share with you the approach that we are taking to support our staff, customers, partners, and community during this...

Tag Google Lighthouse

Google Lighthouse score, could this be the lowest you’ve ever seen?

We happened upon a website recently, following an unrelated Google search and, out of curiosity, decided to run a Rigor performance test against it, due to its tardy response. The...

Tag Web performance

What is Core Web Vitals and how can you use it?

If you build or manage a web site or web application, then performance and user experience will be top priorities for you. Knowing which metrics to collect and which ones...

User Experience Monitoring (UXM) combines the benefits of Synthetic Transaction Monitoring (STM) and Real User Monitoring (RUM)

In Application Performance Management (APM), there are two main technologies used to measure end-user perspective performance: synthetic transaction monitoring (STM) and real user monitoring (RUM).

I spent a month working from home on 4G and it wasn’t good enough.

For many of you, working from home has recently become the new normal. As someone who has mostly worked from home over the past 15 years, lockdown has meant very...

Don’t forget performance. How not to redesign a website

We’ve all heard the expression that beauty is only skin deep—and believe it or not, this can be applied to website design. When a big brand unveils a flashy new...

Tag Instana

Instana link to DBmarlin for deeper database insights

Instana customers may have seen that since yesterday, with the release of 1.191, you now have a new button when looking at database metrics. Scroll to the bottom of the...

Instana acquired by IBM

You may have heard the news on Wednesday that IBM are acquiring AP partner Instana.

DBmarlin Beta now supports Oracle

Hopefully you saw our recent anouncement about DBmarlin launching in closed Beta with support for PostgreSQL and MySQL. Today we are pleased to add Oracle to the list of supported...

Next generation database monitoring tool - DBmarlin reaches beta

Prepare for the next generation of database monitoring. Application Performance Ltd (AP) are thrilled to announce that DBmarlin launched in closed Beta test on 21st August. Anyone wanting to get...

Why do we partner with and recommend Instana?

We’ve partnered with Instana since 2016, when they first came to market with a refreshingly modern and easy-to-deploy infrastructure monitoring tool. This quickly evolved into a fully-fledged Application Performance Management...

What is Core Web Vitals and how can you use it?

If you build or manage a web site or web application, then performance and user experience will be top priorities for you. Knowing which metrics to collect and which ones...

Tag Kubernetes

Why do we partner with and recommend Instana?

We’ve partnered with Instana since 2016, when they first came to market with a refreshingly modern and easy-to-deploy infrastructure monitoring tool. This quickly evolved into a fully-fledged Application Performance Management...

Monitoring Kubernetes with the AppDynamics Cluster Agent

At Application Performance, as independent application performance specialists, we take a keen interest in the capabilities of the major APM vendors. When it comes to monitoring Kubernetes in particular, application...

Tag DBmarlin

What's happened to this blog?

You may be wondering what’s been happening at AP and why our blog here hasn’t been updated in a while?

DBmarlin 1.5.1 released

Version 1.5 is another landmark DBmarlin release with added support for CockroachDB as well as important additional features for SQL Server and Postgres, and some nice UI and host monitoring...

EnergyLogix turns to DBmarlin to resolve a customer impacting MariaDB performance bug

EnergyLogix provides industry-leading energy consumption and carbon footprint management solutions that cover over 100,000 utility meters in office, manufacturing and retail locations around the world. With over 10 years of...

Rave Mobile Safety Recommends DBmarlin

Rave Mobile Safety provides the leading critical communication and collaboration platform trusted to help save lives across the US and Canada. Keeping millions of people safe during catastrophic disasters and...

DBmarlin 1.4.0 released

After another month of innovation and bug squashing, we’re pleased to release DBmarlin 1.4. This version includes new features to help you with database and host monitoring.

Scott Moore Goes Fishing for Database Issues

In season 3, episode 1 of The Performance Tour, Scott Moore (Scott Moore Consulting LLC) goes fishing for database issues and fixes them with DBmarlin. Scott is a well known...

DBmarlin First Year Anniversary

February 2020 will always stick in my mind for two main reasons.

DBmarlin 1.3.0 released featuring time comparison reports

We are really excited to bring you the next great release of DBmarlin, that adds our innovative new time comparison reporting to help everyone from load testers to DBAs.

Advanced Database Monitoring with DBmarlin (Webinar)

Today we hosted our first ever Russian webinar thanks to new DBmarlin partner Proto. Thanks to Denis Bezkorovayny and team for setting this up and allowing us to present to...

DBmarlin 1.2.0 released featuring support for Windows

We’re thrilled to bring you another great monthly release that blends new features and enhanced support for Windows users. Customers running on Linux, don’t worry we will have more features...

DBmarlin 1.1.0 released including Host monitoring and improved Explain plans

Today is another milestone for our database monitoring solution, DBmarlin, and the team here at AP towers have kept the speed of development moving apace. The latest 1.1.0 version of...

DBmarlin Video Demo

DBmarlin is a modern, easy to use, cost effective way to better optimise your database performance and understand the impact of changes. 2021 will be a landmark year as we...

Instead of Celebrating in 2020, we’re Donating to Food Banks

To celebrate the release of DBmarlin as a GA product, the AP team agreed that we wanted to do something to give back to our communities, especially during the pandemic....

DBmarlin Play site launched

For anyone wishing to get hands-on with DBmarlin before deciding whether to try it for themselves, we now have the DBmarlin Play site where anyone can see the product with...

DBMarlin is now available for general release

We’re delighted to have received so much interest in DBmarlin, our next-generation database monitoring tool. We launched in beta in August 2020 and are proud to announce that as of...

Instana link to DBmarlin for deeper database insights

Instana customers may have seen that since yesterday, with the release of 1.191, you now have a new button when looking at database metrics. Scroll to the bottom of the...

The most popular databases 2006 to 2020

We recently announced that DBmarlin now supports the Top 4 databases, and mentioned that the top 4 have remained unchanged for more than 3 years (according to https://db-engines.com/en/ranking).

Instana acquired by IBM

You may have heard the news on Wednesday that IBM are acquiring AP partner Instana.

DBmarlin now supports all of the top 4 database engines

Last week DBmarlin hit a new milestone with support for Microsoft SQL Sever. That means that DBmarlin now supports all of the the top 4 relational databases.

DBmarlin adds support for Microsoft SQL Server

We are pleased to announce that DBmarlin now supports Microsoft SQL Server in addition to Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

DBmarlin new website now live

This week we are pleased to announce that our new DBmarlin website has gone live. This is the place to go for all information on DBmarlin, including the software download,...

DBmarlin Beta now supports Oracle

Hopefully you saw our recent anouncement about DBmarlin launching in closed Beta with support for PostgreSQL and MySQL. Today we are pleased to add Oracle to the list of supported...

Next generation database monitoring tool - DBmarlin reaches beta

Prepare for the next generation of database monitoring. Application Performance Ltd (AP) are thrilled to announce that DBmarlin launched in closed Beta test on 21st August. Anyone wanting to get...

Tag PostgreSQL

Rave Mobile Safety Recommends DBmarlin

Rave Mobile Safety provides the leading critical communication and collaboration platform trusted to help save lives across the US and Canada. Keeping millions of people safe during catastrophic disasters and...

DBmarlin 1.4.0 released

After another month of innovation and bug squashing, we’re pleased to release DBmarlin 1.4. This version includes new features to help you with database and host monitoring.

DBmarlin First Year Anniversary

February 2020 will always stick in my mind for two main reasons.

DBmarlin 1.3.0 released featuring time comparison reports

We are really excited to bring you the next great release of DBmarlin, that adds our innovative new time comparison reporting to help everyone from load testers to DBAs.

Advanced Database Monitoring with DBmarlin (Webinar)

Today we hosted our first ever Russian webinar thanks to new DBmarlin partner Proto. Thanks to Denis Bezkorovayny and team for setting this up and allowing us to present to...

DBmarlin 1.2.0 released featuring support for Windows

We’re thrilled to bring you another great monthly release that blends new features and enhanced support for Windows users. Customers running on Linux, don’t worry we will have more features...

DBmarlin 1.1.0 released including Host monitoring and improved Explain plans

Today is another milestone for our database monitoring solution, DBmarlin, and the team here at AP towers have kept the speed of development moving apace. The latest 1.1.0 version of...

DBmarlin Video Demo

DBmarlin is a modern, easy to use, cost effective way to better optimise your database performance and understand the impact of changes. 2021 will be a landmark year as we...

DBmarlin Play site launched

For anyone wishing to get hands-on with DBmarlin before deciding whether to try it for themselves, we now have the DBmarlin Play site where anyone can see the product with...

DBMarlin is now available for general release

We’re delighted to have received so much interest in DBmarlin, our next-generation database monitoring tool. We launched in beta in August 2020 and are proud to announce that as of...

Instana link to DBmarlin for deeper database insights

Instana customers may have seen that since yesterday, with the release of 1.191, you now have a new button when looking at database metrics. Scroll to the bottom of the...

The most popular databases 2006 to 2020

We recently announced that DBmarlin now supports the Top 4 databases, and mentioned that the top 4 have remained unchanged for more than 3 years (according to https://db-engines.com/en/ranking).

DBmarlin now supports all of the top 4 database engines

Last week DBmarlin hit a new milestone with support for Microsoft SQL Sever. That means that DBmarlin now supports all of the the top 4 relational databases.

DBmarlin adds support for Microsoft SQL Server

We are pleased to announce that DBmarlin now supports Microsoft SQL Server in addition to Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

DBmarlin new website now live

This week we are pleased to announce that our new DBmarlin website has gone live. This is the place to go for all information on DBmarlin, including the software download,...

DBmarlin Beta now supports Oracle

Hopefully you saw our recent anouncement about DBmarlin launching in closed Beta with support for PostgreSQL and MySQL. Today we are pleased to add Oracle to the list of supported...

Next generation database monitoring tool - DBmarlin reaches beta

Prepare for the next generation of database monitoring. Application Performance Ltd (AP) are thrilled to announce that DBmarlin launched in closed Beta test on 21st August. Anyone wanting to get...

Tag MySQL

EnergyLogix turns to DBmarlin to resolve a customer impacting MariaDB performance bug

EnergyLogix provides industry-leading energy consumption and carbon footprint management solutions that cover over 100,000 utility meters in office, manufacturing and retail locations around the world. With over 10 years of...

Rave Mobile Safety Recommends DBmarlin

Rave Mobile Safety provides the leading critical communication and collaboration platform trusted to help save lives across the US and Canada. Keeping millions of people safe during catastrophic disasters and...

DBmarlin 1.4.0 released

After another month of innovation and bug squashing, we’re pleased to release DBmarlin 1.4. This version includes new features to help you with database and host monitoring.

DBmarlin First Year Anniversary

February 2020 will always stick in my mind for two main reasons.

DBmarlin 1.3.0 released featuring time comparison reports

We are really excited to bring you the next great release of DBmarlin, that adds our innovative new time comparison reporting to help everyone from load testers to DBAs.

Advanced Database Monitoring with DBmarlin (Webinar)

Today we hosted our first ever Russian webinar thanks to new DBmarlin partner Proto. Thanks to Denis Bezkorovayny and team for setting this up and allowing us to present to...

DBmarlin 1.2.0 released featuring support for Windows

We’re thrilled to bring you another great monthly release that blends new features and enhanced support for Windows users. Customers running on Linux, don’t worry we will have more features...

DBmarlin 1.1.0 released including Host monitoring and improved Explain plans

Today is another milestone for our database monitoring solution, DBmarlin, and the team here at AP towers have kept the speed of development moving apace. The latest 1.1.0 version of...

DBmarlin Video Demo

DBmarlin is a modern, easy to use, cost effective way to better optimise your database performance and understand the impact of changes. 2021 will be a landmark year as we...

DBmarlin Play site launched

For anyone wishing to get hands-on with DBmarlin before deciding whether to try it for themselves, we now have the DBmarlin Play site where anyone can see the product with...

DBMarlin is now available for general release

We’re delighted to have received so much interest in DBmarlin, our next-generation database monitoring tool. We launched in beta in August 2020 and are proud to announce that as of...

Instana link to DBmarlin for deeper database insights

Instana customers may have seen that since yesterday, with the release of 1.191, you now have a new button when looking at database metrics. Scroll to the bottom of the...

The most popular databases 2006 to 2020

We recently announced that DBmarlin now supports the Top 4 databases, and mentioned that the top 4 have remained unchanged for more than 3 years (according to https://db-engines.com/en/ranking).

DBmarlin now supports all of the top 4 database engines

Last week DBmarlin hit a new milestone with support for Microsoft SQL Sever. That means that DBmarlin now supports all of the the top 4 relational databases.

DBmarlin adds support for Microsoft SQL Server

We are pleased to announce that DBmarlin now supports Microsoft SQL Server in addition to Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

DBmarlin new website now live

This week we are pleased to announce that our new DBmarlin website has gone live. This is the place to go for all information on DBmarlin, including the software download,...

DBmarlin Beta now supports Oracle

Hopefully you saw our recent anouncement about DBmarlin launching in closed Beta with support for PostgreSQL and MySQL. Today we are pleased to add Oracle to the list of supported...

Next generation database monitoring tool - DBmarlin reaches beta

Prepare for the next generation of database monitoring. Application Performance Ltd (AP) are thrilled to announce that DBmarlin launched in closed Beta test on 21st August. Anyone wanting to get...

Tag IBM

Instana acquired by IBM

You may have heard the news on Wednesday that IBM are acquiring AP partner Instana.

Tag SQL Server

Rave Mobile Safety Recommends DBmarlin

Rave Mobile Safety provides the leading critical communication and collaboration platform trusted to help save lives across the US and Canada. Keeping millions of people safe during catastrophic disasters and...

DBmarlin 1.4.0 released

After another month of innovation and bug squashing, we’re pleased to release DBmarlin 1.4. This version includes new features to help you with database and host monitoring.

Scott Moore Goes Fishing for Database Issues

In season 3, episode 1 of The Performance Tour, Scott Moore (Scott Moore Consulting LLC) goes fishing for database issues and fixes them with DBmarlin. Scott is a well known...

DBmarlin First Year Anniversary

February 2020 will always stick in my mind for two main reasons.

DBmarlin 1.3.0 released featuring time comparison reports

We are really excited to bring you the next great release of DBmarlin, that adds our innovative new time comparison reporting to help everyone from load testers to DBAs.

Advanced Database Monitoring with DBmarlin (Webinar)

Today we hosted our first ever Russian webinar thanks to new DBmarlin partner Proto. Thanks to Denis Bezkorovayny and team for setting this up and allowing us to present to...

DBmarlin 1.2.0 released featuring support for Windows

We’re thrilled to bring you another great monthly release that blends new features and enhanced support for Windows users. Customers running on Linux, don’t worry we will have more features...

Tag Windows

Rave Mobile Safety Recommends DBmarlin

Rave Mobile Safety provides the leading critical communication and collaboration platform trusted to help save lives across the US and Canada. Keeping millions of people safe during catastrophic disasters and...

DBmarlin 1.4.0 released

After another month of innovation and bug squashing, we’re pleased to release DBmarlin 1.4. This version includes new features to help you with database and host monitoring.

Scott Moore Goes Fishing for Database Issues

In season 3, episode 1 of The Performance Tour, Scott Moore (Scott Moore Consulting LLC) goes fishing for database issues and fixes them with DBmarlin. Scott is a well known...

DBmarlin First Year Anniversary

February 2020 will always stick in my mind for two main reasons.

DBmarlin 1.3.0 released featuring time comparison reports

We are really excited to bring you the next great release of DBmarlin, that adds our innovative new time comparison reporting to help everyone from load testers to DBAs.

Advanced Database Monitoring with DBmarlin (Webinar)

Today we hosted our first ever Russian webinar thanks to new DBmarlin partner Proto. Thanks to Denis Bezkorovayny and team for setting this up and allowing us to present to...

DBmarlin 1.2.0 released featuring support for Windows

We’re thrilled to bring you another great monthly release that blends new features and enhanced support for Windows users. Customers running on Linux, don’t worry we will have more features...

Tag Neotys

Scott Moore Goes Fishing for Database Issues

In season 3, episode 1 of The Performance Tour, Scott Moore (Scott Moore Consulting LLC) goes fishing for database issues and fixes them with DBmarlin. Scott is a well known...

Tag Neoload

Scott Moore Goes Fishing for Database Issues

In season 3, episode 1 of The Performance Tour, Scott Moore (Scott Moore Consulting LLC) goes fishing for database issues and fixes them with DBmarlin. Scott is a well known...

Tag Load test

Scott Moore Goes Fishing for Database Issues

In season 3, episode 1 of The Performance Tour, Scott Moore (Scott Moore Consulting LLC) goes fishing for database issues and fixes them with DBmarlin. Scott is a well known...

Tag Customer

EnergyLogix turns to DBmarlin to resolve a customer impacting MariaDB performance bug

EnergyLogix provides industry-leading energy consumption and carbon footprint management solutions that cover over 100,000 utility meters in office, manufacturing and retail locations around the world. With over 10 years of...

Rave Mobile Safety Recommends DBmarlin

Rave Mobile Safety provides the leading critical communication and collaboration platform trusted to help save lives across the US and Canada. Keeping millions of people safe during catastrophic disasters and...

Tag Case Study

EnergyLogix turns to DBmarlin to resolve a customer impacting MariaDB performance bug

EnergyLogix provides industry-leading energy consumption and carbon footprint management solutions that cover over 100,000 utility meters in office, manufacturing and retail locations around the world. With over 10 years of...

Rave Mobile Safety Recommends DBmarlin

Rave Mobile Safety provides the leading critical communication and collaboration platform trusted to help save lives across the US and Canada. Keeping millions of people safe during catastrophic disasters and...

Tag MariaDB

EnergyLogix turns to DBmarlin to resolve a customer impacting MariaDB performance bug

EnergyLogix provides industry-leading energy consumption and carbon footprint management solutions that cover over 100,000 utility meters in office, manufacturing and retail locations around the world. With over 10 years of...

Tag RDS

EnergyLogix turns to DBmarlin to resolve a customer impacting MariaDB performance bug

EnergyLogix provides industry-leading energy consumption and carbon footprint management solutions that cover over 100,000 utility meters in office, manufacturing and retail locations around the world. With over 10 years of...

Tag EnergyLogix

EnergyLogix turns to DBmarlin to resolve a customer impacting MariaDB performance bug

EnergyLogix provides industry-leading energy consumption and carbon footprint management solutions that cover over 100,000 utility meters in office, manufacturing and retail locations around the world. With over 10 years of...

Tag CockroachDB

DBmarlin 1.5.1 released

Version 1.5 is another landmark DBmarlin release with added support for CockroachDB as well as important additional features for SQL Server and Postgres, and some nice UI and host monitoring...