As long as there are websites, there will be a need for website monitoring services. How well the reseller does is dependent on his/her ability to show his/her clients the value of using the monitoring service that he/she is offering. It is important that the reseller has a thorough understanding of the nature and value [...]

Synthetic monitoring of end-users transactions and actions on a website is the latest in development tools used by many web or online businesses. In the past businesses relied on customer or end-user experience monitoring to test out their website performance and new features that they introduced. Today many businesses are able to apply synthetic end-user [...]

A few days ago, I gave you my JavaScript test harness. I created it so I could evaluate some of the performance options that were listed in Website Performance: JavaScript. As promised, here is the same test harness ported over to PHP. [I hope you don't laugh at me when I tell you I spent [...]

The concept of an application transaction (also called a business transaction or an end-user transaction) is at the heart of Application Performance Monitoring (APM).  A previous three-part article, The APM Primer (part one, part two, and part three), described the basics of APM.  The article now before you delves a little deeper into APM’s core [...]

If you would like to monitor a number or string from some arbitrary web page anywhere in the world, Dan Fruehauf’s article, HTTP Extraction With Monitis, shows you how.Dan’s article not only explains how, but also contains sample code to show how.  The sample code is written in M3 (the Monitis Monitor Manager) and uses [...]

Application Management (AM) includes project management, development, testing, quality assurance, release management, application monitoring, and responding to the information supplied by monitors.  Application Performance Monitoring(APM) is application monitoring that is focused on performance rather than security, availability, planning, or some other matter.This article is part three of a primer for those who have never heard [...]

Like it or not, your end-users will judge your website.  If, in their judgment, it is perceived to be slow, that judgment will partly determine how often they return.  It will also affect their friends’ decisions insomuch as user experiences are shared.  That’s why monitoring the user experienceis so important.Now on to the next step.  [...]

Application Management (AM) includes project management, development, testing, quality assurance, release management, application monitoring, and responding to the information supplied by monitors.  Application Performance Monitoring(APM) is application monitoring that is focused on performance rather than security, availability, planning, or some other matter.This article is part two of a primer for those who have never heard [...]

 Application Management (AM) includes project management, development, testing, quality assurance, release management, application monitoring, and responding to the information supplied by monitors.  Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is application monitoring that is focused on performance rather than security, availability, planning, or some other matter. This article is part one of a primer for those who have [...]

The power of Monitis and Monitis Monitor Manager M3 Monitis can monitor everything – and anything. In the last article I’ve demonstrated some of Monitis Monitor Manager (M3) framework capabilities with parameter extraction from web pages. M3 support parameter extraction via XML xpath, JSON path and also a simple regular expression. In the following article I’ll [...]