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Grid® Report for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) | Fall 2021
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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools
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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools Denition
Application performance monitoring (APM) tools allow users to monitor and track the performance of particular software or web applications to
identify and solve any performance issues that may arise. These solutions provide performance metrics for applications, with specic insights
into the statistics such as the amount of transactions processed by the application or the response time to process such transactions. APM
products form a baseline for these metrics and monitor the applications for any variance from the baseline. The metrics are displayed in a variety
of data visualizations for easy conceptualization of the overall performance. They are very commonly used by application administrators to
manage web applications in hopes to discover possible reasons for delays in response time. With the ability to identify and x any performance
issues, businesses can provide an optimal user experience. Some APM solutions may offer similar functionality to database management
systems and network monitoring solutions.
To qualify for inclusion in the Application Performance Monitoring category, a product must:
Monitor and track the performance and response time of software or web applications
Create a baseline of performance metrics and alert administrators when performance varies
Provide visual data for users to better understand the performance metrics
Assist in remedying any application performance issues
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Grid® Scoring Description
Products shown on the Grid® for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) have received a minimum of 10 reviews/ratings in data gathered by
August 17, 2021. Products are ranked by customer satisfaction (based on user reviews) and market presence (based on market share, seller size,
and social impact) and placed into four categories on the Grid®:
Products in the Leader quadrant are rated highly by G2 users and have substantial Market Presence scores. Leaders include: Dynatrace,
AppDynamics, Datadog, LogicMonitor, New Relic One, Epsagon, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, Sumo Logic, LogRocket,
Progress WhatsUp Gold, Instana, Microsoft System Center, Veeam ONE, Instabug, Logz.io, and Pulse Secure Virtual Trac Manager
High Performing products have high customer Satisfaction scores and low Market Presence compared to the rest of the category. High
Performers include: Centreon, FusionReactor APM, Scout APM, Atatus, Lumigo, Germain APM, Serverless360, Rollbar, Raygun, Lightstep,
Catchpoint, AppSignal, Rigor, IT-Conductor, and Instrumental
Contender products have relatively low customer Satisfaction scores and high Market Presence compared to the rest of the category.
While they may have positive reviews, they do not have enough reviews to validate those ratings. Contenders include: Intel VTune Amplier,
Splunk APM, PRTG Network Monitor, Micro Focus SiteScope, SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor, Google Cloud Console, Azure Monitor,
Google Cloud Monitoring, Zabbix, and dotTrace
Niche products have relatively low Satisfaction scores and low Market Presence compared to the rest of the category. While they may
have positive reviews, they do not have enough reviews to validate those ratings. Niche products include: Nagios XI, dotMemory, Netdata,
Anodot, Netreo, Pepperdata Cloud Performance, Retrace, Micro Focus Operations Bridge (OpsBridge), SolarWinds Standard Toolset, Icinga
Infrastructure Monitoring, IBM DevOps Insights, AppOptics, and checkmk