Are costly problems springing up too late in the application development process?
Diagnosing application issues quickly is great, but to eliminate application performance issues before
they reach production is even better. IT management knows that a problem found in production costs a 100x what
it costs if found in development. This is why dynaTrace was been built from the ground up to be a single
integrated system that extends from end-to-end across the full application development lifecycle –
from development to test and into production. In addition, unlike alternative approaches which require weeks
of professional services simply to get one component of an overall lifecycle solution up and running,
dynaTrace is highly automated to accelerate time to value across its entire system.
In development, dynaTrace integrates easily into continuous build systems, such
as Ant, NAnt and MSBuild. Dashboards can be configured to compare performance results from nightly
builds, or between prior versions, to identify regression issues easily. The outlying
transactions are automatically captured for quick diagnosis and resolution cutting
development time, and reducing the number of issues found in load-testing.
In test centers dynaTrace can be integrated with your favorite load tester to eliminate
documentation and test reruns, while accelerating diagnosis of issues found under
high load. dynaTrace maps the http header identified by the load tester directly
to the Purepath, the actual end-to-end transaction detail, allowing development
to drill from load test report right down to the code causing the issue. As with
integration to build systems, test/QA dashboards can be built to compare performance
characteristics between version, again allowing regressions to be spotted easily.
And finally, dynaTrace has made it fast and easy to instrument an application with
“smart” self-learning agents managed and distributed from a central server. With
multiple applications coming through the test center and little time to set-up,
run and document results, fast and easy instrumentation is a critical requirement
for any APM solution to be used in test.
In production, dynaTrace is the only APM solution lightweight enough to be run
continuously, 24x7, even on the most performance sensitive applications. And, with
its unique role-based dashboard approach, each application stakeholder can have
their own real-time view of the inner workings of the application – for example,
business managers can have a business transaction level view, operations specialists
can have a traditional monitoring view, while an architect might want a method based
view with real-time UML map. Finally, with its unique central server approach for
agent instrumentation and distribution, dynaTrace is able to deploy easily. And
with “smart”, self-learning agents, dynaTrace is the only APM solution that can
automatically adapt itself to cluster resizing and changes in virtual instances.
Continuous trace and capture, role-based views for all and smart automation for
faster time to value set dynaTrace apart.
Our customers continue to be our best proof that we deliver on the value we claim:
Terry Sick, Vice President, Product Development and Engineering, EnerNOC (NASD: ENOC)
Scalability is a major focus for us. Our goal is to deliver the most robust, reliable
technology platform in the demand response and energy management industry. By expanding
our dynaTrace deployment beyond our QA and Staging environments, we are able to
identify issues early in the development cycle. We have also fully integrated dynaTrace
in production to spot any performance issues before they become problems.
Leonard Fingerman, Performance Engineer, AutoTrader.com
ROI plays a big role with the dynaTrace value proposition. It gives developers and
other pre-production technicians the ability to resolve issues earlier before they
become crises.
Dave Anderson, Founder/Principal Architect, Peopleclick:
It's all about being proactive and providing a reliable service for our customers.
Prior to using dynaTrace we would rely on educated guesses as to what course of
action to take. This would often result in wasted effort - making code or configuration
changes that didn't always solve the root problem.
If reducing cost, accelerating time to market and introducing better applications
is your challenge perhaps a test drive of dynaTrace makes sense sooner rather than
later. Find out what Continuous APM could do for you.
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