Introduction
Current application design tends to be more complex and distributed over networks. This leads to new challenges in today's development and monitoring tools to provide application developers, system- and application administrators with the information they need.
Within distributed applications it is not easy to estimate if the application performs well. The following issues help in the evaluation of distributed applications:
- Are business transactions succeeding and, if not, what is the cause of failure?
- What is the response time of a transaction?
- Where are the bottlenecks, which sub-transaction could cause a bottleneck?
- Which and how many transactions are executed in an application?
- How to tune an application or its environment to perform better?
ARM helps answer these questions. It's important to mention that the ARM benefits as they are defined here are now just a subset of the Application Performance Management space.
Read more about this topic: Application Response Measurement
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