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What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Software?
Application performance monitoring (APM) software, also known as application performance management software, is designed to help organizations track and optimize the performance of their critical applications. Through advanced monitoring and analytics tools, APM software allows teams to identify and resolve performance issues in real-time, ensuring that applications are fast, stable, and reliable. By providing in-depth insights into application performance and user experience, APM software helps organizations deliver a superior customer experience and improve the overall performance of their applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Site24x7
ManageEngine
ManageEngine Site24x7 is a comprehensive observability and monitoring solution designed to help organizations effectively manage their IT environments. It offers monitoring for back-end IT infrastructure deployed on-premises, in the cloud, in containers, and on virtual machines. It ensures a superior digital experience for end users by tracking application performance and providing synthetic and real user insights. It also analyzes network performance, traffic flow, and configuration changes, troubleshoots application and server performance issues through log analysis, offers custom plugins for the entire tech stack, and evaluates real user usage. Whether you're an MSP or a business aiming to elevate performance, Site24x7 provides enhanced visibility, optimization of hybrid workloads, and proactive monitoring to preemptively identify workflow issues using AI-powered insights. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more than 130 locations worldwide.Starting Price: $9.00/month -
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NMIS
FirstWave
FirstWave’s NMIS is a complete network management system that provides fault, performance, and configuration management, performance graphs, and threshold alerts. Business rules allow for highly granular notification policies with many types of notification methods. NMIS consolidates multiple tools into one system, ready for Network Engineers to use. Scalable, flexible, open, and simple to implement and maintain, NMIS is the Network Management System that underpins the operations of over one hundred thousand organizations worldwide – making it one of the most widely used open-source Network Management Systems in the world today. FirstWave enables partners, including some of the world’s largest telcos and managed service providers (MSPs), to protect their customers from cyber-attacks, while rapidly growing cybersecurity services revenues at scale. FirstWave provides a comprehensive end-to-end solution for network discovery, management, and cybersecurity for its partners globally.Starting Price: $0 -
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AimBetter
AimBetter
Ensure business continuity by proactively preventing and resolving outages and poor performance in core systems such as ERP, WMS, and others based on SQL Server/ Oracle. 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀: Get the root cause of DB system issues in real-time, including queries, resources, and code analysis. 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀: Providing automatic DBA capabilities, AimBetter reduces dependency on specialized DBAs by 80% through automated analysis and actionable insights. 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱-𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺: Centralized, easy-to-deploy solution suitable for businesses of all sizes. A 5-minute installation in one of the company's servers doesn't load the analyzed servers. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀: Notifies users of anomalies and potential issues before they impact users. 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽: Enables receiving alerts and taking critical actions like killing sessions from anywhere. Real-Time Problem SolvingStarting Price: Free -
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Sematext Cloud
Sematext Group
Sematext Cloud is an innovative, unified platform with all-in-one solution for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, and synthetic monitoring to provide unified, real-time observability of your entire technology stack. It's used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, with the goal of driving collaboration between engineering and business teams, reducing the time of root-cause analysis, understanding user behaviour and tracking key business metrics. The main capabilities range from log monitoring to APM, server monitoring, database monitoring, network monitoring, uptime monitoring, website monitoring or container monitoring Find complete details on our website. Or better: start a free demo, no email address required.Starting Price: $0 -
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Datadog
Datadog
Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.Starting Price: $15.00/host/month -
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eG Enterprise
eG Innovations
IT performance monitoring is not about monitoring CPU, memory and network resources any more. eG Enterprise makes user experience the centerpiece of your IT monitoring and management strategy. With eG Enterprise, you can measure the digital experience of your users, get deep visibility into the performance the entire application delivery stack — from code to user experience, and data center to cloud — from a single pane of glass, correlate performance across domains and pinpoint the root-cause of problems proactively. Machine learning and analytics capabilities embedded in eG Enterprise enable IT teams make intelligent decisions regarding right-sizing, optimization and planning for future growth. The result: happy users, enhanced productivity, improved IT efficiency and tangible business ROI. eG Enterprise is available for installation on-premise and as a SaaS solution. Start a free trial today.Starting Price: $1,000 per month -
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ScaleGrid
ScaleGrid
ScaleGrid is a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform that helps you automate your time-consuming database administration tasks both in the cloud and on-premises. Easily provision, monitor, backup and scale your open source databases with high availability, advanced security, full superuser and SSH access, query analysis, and troubleshooting support to improve the performance of your deployments. Supported databases include: - MySQL - PostgreSQL - Redis™ - MongoDB® database - Greenplum™ (coming soon) The ScaleGrid platform supports both public and private clouds, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), DigitalOcean, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), VMware and OpenStack. Used by thousands of developers, startups, and enterprise customers including Atlassian, Meteor, and Accenture, ScaleGrid handles all your database operations at any scale so you can focus on your application performance.Starting Price: $8 per month -
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Dynatrace
Dynatrace
The Dynatrace software intelligence platform. Transform faster with unparalleled observability, automation, and intelligence in one platform. Leave the bag of tools behind, with one platform to automate your dynamic multicloud and align multiple teams. Spark collaboration between biz, dev, and ops with the broadest set of purpose-built use cases in one place. Harness and unify even the most complex dynamic multiclouds, with out-of-the box support for all major cloud platforms and technologies. Get a broader view of your environment. One that includes metrics, logs, and traces, as well as a full topological model with distributed tracing, code-level detail, entity relationships, and even user experience and behavioral data – all in context. Weave Dynatrace’s open API into your existing ecosystem to drive automation in everything from development and releases to cloud ops and business processes.Starting Price: $11 per month -
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openITCOCKPIT
it-novum GmbH
Easy to use configuration web interface for Nagios and Naemon. The monitoring solution for corporations and SMEs From large data centers to critical IT services – monitor and manage all of your servers, applications and systems at a glance! openITCOCKPIT creates transparency by providing comprehensive monitoring of your entire IT landscape. Its modular design includes features such as reporting, event correlation and clustering capabilities – all in an intuitive web interface. And by using its supplied host and service templates, experienced administrators can save time and effort which will be better placed in other areas. The supplied REST API makes it easy to connect to external systems. With openITCOCKPIT, the classical division between monitoring and configuration is removed. After exporting the configuration to Naemon/Nagios, users can immediately see the status of the monitored hosts and services in the front end and then edit them directly.Starting Price: 0 € -
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SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
SolarWinds
Quickly pinpoint performance issues with SolarWinds® Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) while providing expert advice with tuning advisors. Anomaly detection powered by machine learning allows DBAs to proactively optimize databases before small issues become big problems. Real-time analysis with 24/7 monitoring and automated alerts provides the time an error occurred instead of just knowing it was “sometime last week.” DPA helps ease the use of more than 20 cross-platform databases in hybrid, on-premises and cloud environments. -
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InsightCat
InsightCat
Full-stack monitoring platform for your software and hardware. InsightCat is a full-stack infrastructure monitoring solution to search, analyze, and aggregate system metrics in one place. The solution was developed to be intuitive and cover the most vital requests of DevOps, System administrators, SecOps, and IT specialists related to infrastructure monitoring, security, log management, etc. The solution allows you to perform: Infrastructure monitoring. Detect anomalies within your infrastructure to eliminate them as quickly as possible and prevent the system from repeating similar issues. Synthetic monitoring. Monitor your web services around the clock and be aware in advance of the critical downtimes if they occur. Log management. Work with your log data and keep up with the root cause of any software error, within one place. Smart alerting and escalation. Set up the flexible alerting system to keep the team informed if any spikes, errors or unordinary behavior.Starting Price: $1.99 -
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Netreo
Netreo
Netreo is the most comprehensive full stack IT infrastructure management and observability platform. We provide a single source of truth for proactive performance and availability monitoring for large enterprise networks, infrastructure, applications and business services. Our solution is used by: - IT Executives to have full visibility from the business service right down into the infrastructure and network that supports it. - IT Engineering departments as a decision support system for capacity planning, and architecting modern solutions. - IT Operations teams for real time visibility into what is failing in their environment, what bottlenecks exist and who it is affecting. We provide all of these insights for systems and vendor mixes in large heterogeneous and constantly evolving environments. We have an extensive and growing list of supported vendors (over 350 integrations) including network vendors, servers, storage, virtualization, cloud platforms and others.Starting Price: $5/resource/mo -
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IBM Instana
IBM
IBM Instana is the gold standard of incident prevention with automated full-stack visibility, 1-second granularity and 3 seconds to notify. With today’s highly dynamic and complex cloud environments, the average cost of an hour of downtime can reach six figures and beyond. Traditional application performance monitoring (APM) tools simply aren’t fast enough to keep up or thorough enough to contextualize the issues identified. Also, they are typically limited to super users who must complete months of training to learn. IBM Instana Observability goes beyond traditional APM solutions by democratizing observability so anyone across DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, ITOps and development can get the data they want with the context they need. Instana Dynamic APM operates using the Instana agent architecture, which incorporates sensors—lightweight, automated programs tailored to monitor specific entities.Starting Price: $75 per month -
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Avantra
Avantra
With nearly 20 years experience helping Enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) globally to better manage their SAP and cloud landscapes, we know what it takes to deliver better service, productivity, innovation and compliance to businesses who rely on SAP. Founded in Switzerland with global presence in UK, USA, Germany and Australia we are well placed to support the largest SAP customers and Managed Service Providers. -
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Atatus
NamLabs Technologies
NamLabs Technologies is an Indian software company that publishes a software suite called Atatus. Atatus is a SaaS software & a full stack observability platform. It provides a wide range of monitoring capabilities including Application Performance Monitoring, Real-User Monitoring/ End User Monitoring/ Browser Monitoring, Synthetic Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Logs Monitoring, and API Analytics. Analyze the performance of your application for performance issues such as slow transactions, database queries, website availability, uptime, latency, response time, and throughput, much more. 24x7 customer support is guaranteed.Starting Price: $49.00/month -
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DymaxIO
Condusiv Technologies
DymaxIO is fast data software. Whether on-premises or in the Cloud, DymaxIO returns 40%+ of your throughput that is being robbed due to I/O inefficiencies. It’s fast, easy, fully transparent, and automatic. Fix application slows, freezes, timeouts, slow SQL queries, reduce cloud compute costs, and more, at the source. Get your speed back now with new DymaxIO. Undelete recovers deleted files instantly with continuous data protection, eliminating time consuming restores from backup. Undelete protects local and network-share files ensuring every deleted file, or version of a file, can easily be restored. In just a few clicks, content that took hours to create is back in a moment! Fixes performance problems, such as application slows and freezes, at the source. No tuning required. See a 30%+ improvement, increasing the efficiency of your infrastructure and that of your users. Sweat your assets longer, don't overspend on expensive new hardware.Starting Price: $10 per month -
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FusionReactor
Intergral
FusionReactor allows you to quickly find bottlenecks in your app, server, and in your database; making your Java or ColdFusion application run faster and more efficiently. The integrated production safe debugger helps you to quickly find bugs & alleviate technical debt allowing you more time to write better code. FusionReactor continually monitors your app and your database so when an error fires automatic root cause analysis will trigger and you will be immediately sent details of where the error occurred in your stack. No more hunting for that needle - you can dive straight in and fix the issue. Free trial available see https://www.fusion-reactor.com/start-free-trial/ You will find all the APM features you expect; plus some unique features you didn’t. FusionReactor is breaking the mold of traditional APM tools and will enable you to keep your production systems online longer and with better resultsStarting Price: $19 per month -
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Happy Apps
HappyApps
Setup and monitor a wide variety of checks within seconds that include website, ping, socket, databases, messaging queues, application servers, to custom checks. Setup alerts (SMS & Email) with ease. Unique noise reduction technology dramatically cuts unnecessary alerts by consolidating related incidents, muting systems with known issues, and minimizing false positives. Get status and real-time visibility across your Apps and Business Services. Clearly displays open incidents and issues that require your attention. Group and monitor multiple Apps and IT systems that include Databases, web servers, App servers, and messaging queues as a single App. Happy Apps delivers an overall status for the App along with status for each individual member of the group. Users also get to view dependency maps between individual IT systems and how they impact other Apps.Starting Price: $9.95 per month -
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IDERA Precise for Databases
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
Precise for Databases helps database administrators to find and fix database performance problems in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides deep database optimization, isolation of problems and causes, scalable deployment, what-if analysis for changes, and history, trending, and planning. Precise for Databases ensures that databases perform at peak efficiency. It captures, measures, and correlates performance metrics from all critical components of the system. It then detects and corrects the root cause of database and transaction performance problems before they become noticeable for databases and their related applications. Monitor Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, IBM Db2, and SAP Sybase ASE. For each of these database platforms, the interface of Precise looks and behaves the same to minimize the learning curve. Precise for Databases samples the monitored databases once per second or more frequently, has low overhead (typically 1%). -
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Epsagon
Epsagon
Epsagon enables teams to instantly visualize, understand and optimize their microservice architectures. With our unique lightweight auto-instrumentation, gaps in data and manual work associated with other APM solutions are eliminated, providing significant reductions in issue detection, root cause analysis and resolution times. Increase development velocity and reduce application downtime with Epsagon.Starting Price: $89 per month -
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WhaTap
WhaTap
WhaTap-Application helps you find out everything. With WhaTap's proprietary technology, called the 'Active Stack', it provides improvement points to locate the source of problems in hidden areas that were not found in other products. Easy to install and quickly experience. Simply install WhaTap-Agent and you'll have five minutes to experience WhaTap's solution. You can see exactly where you don't see them with unique technology that's different from what you have. Integrated monitoring of multiple regions and related departments. It handles multi-lingual, multi-platform, large-scale transactions, and enables transaction tracking of isolated applications. As the number of monitoring targets grows, we have flexible and reliable scalability by only expanding our data storage space. Maintain the latest version reflecting technology trends to manage key service indicators. You can get business insight data using performance analysis data.Starting Price: $20 per month -
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IBM Turbonomic
IBM
Cut infrastructure spend by 33%, reduce data center refresh costs by 75%, and get back 30% of your engineering time with smarter resource management. Increasingly, complex applications run your business. And they can run your teams ragged trying to stay ahead of dynamic demand. When application performance drops, teams are often reacting at human speed, after the fact. To avoid disruption, you may overprovision resource allocations, making estimates that are often costly and don’t always pay off. The IBM® Turbonomic® Application Resource Management (ARM) platform allows you to eliminate this guesswork, saving both time and money. You can continuously automate critical actions in real time—and without human intervention—that proactively deliver the most efficient use of compute, storage and network resources to your apps at every layer of the stack. -
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Opsview
Opsview
Opsview monitors operating systems, networks, cloud, VMs, containers, databases, applications, and more. Business Service Monitoring, or BSM, allows you a much-enhanced view into your IT infrastructure – as opposed to looking at your infrastructure on a Host by Host basis. Your monitoring solution will understand resiliency, service / operational availability (SLA/OLA), and more. 200+ Opsview supported Opspacks and 4500+ plugins via the Nagios Exchange allow your business to quickly monitor IT infrastructure, public and private cloud services, VMs, containers, databases, and applications. If your business already has existing ticketing, notification, and analytics systems, the Opsview API allows for easy two-way communication and workflow. Monitoring software without top-notch customer support isn't worth it. The Opsview Customer Success Team strives to create increasing value for our customers with their monitoring expertise. -
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ExtraHop RevealX
ExtraHop Networks
Fight advanced threats with a covert defense. ExtraHop eliminates blindspots and detects threats that other tools miss. ExtraHop gives you the perspective you need to understand your hybrid attack surface from the inside out. Our industry-leading network detection and response platform is purpose-built to help you rise above the noise of alerts, silos, and runaway technology so you can secure your future in the cloud.
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