Strategize a Smooth Tenant-to-tenant Migration and Copilot Takeoff
Aspects of modern APM solutions
1. ASPECTS OF MODERN APM SOLUTIONS
Fabian Lange, Head of Competence Center Performance
codecentric AG
2. TODAYS CHALLENGES IN APM
− Complex IT architecture
− Technology mix
− Large amount of IT infrastructure
− Legacy does not go away
− High rate of change
− Multiple distributed development teams
− Operations has little insight
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4. APM NEEDS TO PROVIDE
− Single point for application health monitoring
− APM solution has to support most existing and future technologies
− Including End User Monitoring
− High grade of automation
− Deployment of the APM solution
− Discovery of application architecture and code execution paths
− Auto Configuration without expert knowledge
− Change Adoption
− Behavior learning
− Meaningful data presentation
− User view of transactions
− How does the end user notice problems
− Different views for various stakeholder
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5. APM NEEDS TO PROVIDE
− Scalable solution that can monitor
− Tenths, hundreds, thousands of machines
− Millions and Billions of transactions per minute
− Thousands of users
− Tools to narrow down root causes
− Operations needs to find the needle in the haystack
− Provide detail level information to responsible development team
− Tools to monitor the application
− Health
− Load and Trends
− Aggregation and Reporting
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7. MTTR – MEAN TIME TO REPAIR
− Is there a problem?
− Baselines provide realistic thresholds
− Where is the problem?
− Distributed transaction tracing helps locating the root cause
− Often connected to responsible dev team
− What is the problem?
− Drill Down allows finding details
− Code Execution
− Environment Metrics
− User Data
− Improving MTTR is the main reason for APM
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9. LOAD AND PERFORMANCE TESTS
− Monitoring is more important than test
− Reality is different from test environment
− Not reproducable problems happen in reality
− Testing allows early feedback
− No real customers harmed
− Early tests are an integral part of agile methodologies
− APM Solutions should support Production as well as Test environments
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10. EASE OF USE
− No time for complex tool
− Time savers cannot require extra time
− Not everybody is a performance expert
− Collect enough data to troubleshoot problems without knowledge
− Provide certain degree of automatic problem resolution
− Still some problems require performance know how
− Apple raised the bar for everybody
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11. CHANGE
− Business wants new functionality …
− … and agile finally delivers
− Application changes frequently …
− … and with it its performance characteristics
− Successful products create demand …
− … which is often solved by adding resources
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12. DEVOPS
1. Application Complexity cannot be handled by Operations
2. Operational Complexity is unknown to Developers
− DevOps lets development and operations teams cooperate more closely
− Developers learn how servers are set up and configured
− Operations learn how applications are supposed to work
− Developers learn the pain to be called during night
− Operations learn development practices like test and version control
− Major improvement for application
− Development and Operations share responsibility for Applications
− They need shared tooling
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13. CLOUD
− Cloud aka Virtualization is nothing new
− APM Solutions can provide extra value
− Determining the correct sizing at any time
− Automatically reconfigure the application by load pattern
− APMaaS
− APM solutions can leverage SaaS models
− Low cost of ownership
− Pay Per use
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15. SUMMARY
− IT Applications change fast
− APM Solution needs to adapt automatically
− Support for multiple languages, frameworks and protocols
− Operations need wide overview, but Developers need deep insight
− An APM Solution has to provide both
− Alerts need to be actionable
− False alarms disturb
− No red light should be ever ignored
− APM solution should be able to alert the right thing
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