At AppDynamics we’re always looking to partner with vendors that can significantly enhance the visibility we provide our customers when it comes to managing application performance in production. One area we see synergies is in synthetic monitoring and load testing, specifically for the next generation of cloud and mobile applications. So when Apica, the performance and load testing company for cloud, web and mobile applications came to us to join forces, we were stoked.
On June 26th, Apica and AppDynamics announced a partnership to provide DevOps an integrated monitoring solution to gain 10x visibility into application availability and performance, with the power to identify the root cause of slow downs and outages in as few as 3-clicks.
We’ve seen how development agility can be directly proportional to production fragility. Reproducing complex, distributed production architectures in test is tough, because data volumes, computing resource and user behavior always differ. This is why many organizations are starting to test application performance in production, so they can stress test out-of-hours and pro-actively identify severity-1 incidents before end users and the business is impacted.
Monitoring visibility across geo-locations, browsers and mobile devices
Giving DevOps the visibility they need to see how their applications perform, in production, under load, across geo-locations, different browsers and mobile devices helps DevOps be pro-active in managing application performance. This is where Apica’s synthetic monitoring and load testing products helps organizations understand how an application is performing from an end user, location, browser or device perspective.
“Users expect a fast and reliable web, cloud, and mobile experience. Every second delay can cost businesses valuable customers and revenue,” says Sven Hammar, CEO of Apica. “Together with AppDynamics, we’re providing users with best-of-breed solutions to ensure uptime and availability for revenue-critical applications. They’ll have the most complete understanding available of the metrics that are powering or causing problems for their applications so they can take measures to improve performance.”
AppDynamics integrates with the following three Apica products:
Apica WebPerformance – Verifies the performance and availability of your mission-critical applications from over 80 different locations world-wide.
Apica ProxySniffer – Automates creation of load test scripts and scenarios by recording real end-user traffic
Apica LoadTest – A cloud-based load testing tool for your mission-critical applications
You can access the Apica portal via any web browser or mobile device. Thru this new partnership AppDynamics real-time monitoring data is now seamlessly available in Apica portal, so DevOps can now drill-down a level further to understand the root cause of slowdowns and availability issues.
Apica WebPerformance
Like AppDynamics, Apica has similar synergies to application performance management (APM):
Complete Lifecycle Visibility – We have customers that deploy our solutions in both production and pre-production environments. For Apica, scripts used for load testing thru LoadTest can also be applied to WebPerformance as well to test application availability and performance in production.
Real-time monitoring – understanding the true end user experience 24/7; specifically around business transactions and the application infrastructure, so pro-active alert notifications can be sent to DevOps when service degradation is identified.
Built for the Cloud – Apica LoadTest is cloud-ready so organizations can automate load tests and find the optimal configuration for their cloud deployments.
Below is a short clip of the direct integration of AppDynamics with Apica allowing DevOps to monitor all of the business transactions and system resources in real-time. There is also contextual business transaction drill-down that takes a user from the Apica portal into the AppDynamics user interface so the root cause of performance issues can rapidly found.
You can start your free trial with Apica’s performance and load testing solution by clicking here. For more details on monitoring your applications with Apica and AppDynamics, please visit Apica’s AppDynamics partner page.
