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 never heard about APM.  Since APM is quickly establishing itself as a monitoring framework, forward-thinking clients and system owners will no doubt be asking questions about it in the near future.  This article will prepare you to answer the more basic questions. Read more…