Proactive Performance Management

Today’s rapid release cycles, complex architectures and Google like performance requirements make “testing in” performance and scalability after the fact a nightmare. A proactive approach is required, but how? Profilers are reactive tools with limited capability for integration, automation and trending. Yet for engineers to accept something new is never easy. dynaTrace is as easy to learn and use as a profiler, and powerful enough to establish Proactive Performance Management (PPM) as a valuable new discipline in engineering.

You can’t manage what you can’t measure, and you can’t guarantee continuous improvement if you can’t measure continuously. Automate the performance and scalability analysis of your unit testing, load testing, and functional testing by integrating dynaTrace into your build, CI and test automation environment. Increase test frequency for quicker feedback, trend against KPIs and test what couldn’t be tested before. Consistently improve performance with a systematic, repeatable approach.

How often does the same issue resurface in production release to release? How often does the same bug reappear? Regressions are a challenge. A fix in one place can destabilize another. With dynaTrace’s Proactive Performance Management detect performance and reliability regressions early, compare performance and behavior of a current build to previous versions and baselines, and automate analysis to enable your experts to focus on features instead of debugging. Save time in development. Prevent pain in production.

Scalability depends on much more than tuned code and tight SQL statements. Scalability relies heavily on architectural decisions that are made early in the development cycle. So why don’t we validate architecture proactively as early as possible? Easier said than done, especially as applications gets more distributed and more complex. Now with dynaTrace’s PurePath Technology™ you have true end-to-end tracing from Web Browser to Web Server to Application Server to Database and can visualize application behavior under load for even large, complex applications to prevent scalability problems from ever reaching production.

What does “fast” or “slow” really mean? What does “performs well” and “it scales” really mean? Performance and scalability are only manageable through quantitative goals that can be consistently measured - the key performance indicators (KPIs). dynaTrace’s Proactive Performance Management approach measures, tracks and alerts against KPIs such as service levels, throughput and response time requirements. Business Transaction Management can be added to further save time and cost by focusing engineers on what matters most. Measure your website performance relative to your competition with SpeedoftheWeb because speed means visitors meands business.

With application demands continuing to rise, no one has time to waste. Stop debugging applications in the test environment. Stop firefighting in production. Let dynaTrace Proactive Performance Management capture the root-cause of problems when they occur so that engineers simply replay, at the code-level, precisely what was happening when the issue(s) occurred. Automate collaboration by letting alerts publish captured PurePath Sessions directly to issue tracking systems so engineers have them at their fingertips immediately.

Ever been asked, “is the release on time?”, or “will this release be better than the current release?” Stop hoping. Stop guessing. Provide quantitative visibility to all stakeholders through dynaTrace Proactive Performance Management. Give management and engineering teams KPI trend dashboards to bring visibility to engineering's progress. Compare your current build version, at code-level, with the production gold master. Use the Kiosk mode’s live video screens to provide continuous feedback. The more consistent and automated the feedback, the faster performance and scalability will become an indispensable part of your application engineering process.