So a couple of questions and considerations to help you make a good decision By "cloud services" do you mean multiple services running on one cloud (presumably Azure), or multiple services running on multiple clouds (perhaps Azure/AWS/GCP)? If there is any chance that you…

The answer to this question depends upon what you mean by Cloud Monitoring "Software" Do you mean the applications software that you built or bought and that implements your business functionality? In that case look at Dynatrace, New Relic, and Instana.  There is also a…

@Jim Greenway So let's assume that you do all of the things that you listed above to protect your supply chain process. Do you then legally guarantee to your customers (via a contract with penalties) that you will not get hacked, and if you do then you will pay penalties to…

The hackers targeted SolarWinds because SolarWinds has many customers. To minimize the risk of being hacked through one of your vendors, this suggests choosing unpopular vendors with few customers. Which is completely irrational Summary - this is a really hard problem and…

When selecting an APM tool, there are two very important criteria that you should make sure that the tool meets 1. Does the tool match the architecture of your applications, and support the languages, and infrastructure of your applications. For example, AppDynamics will…

The most important thing to understand about APM products (AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Instana, New Relic) is that they are all about monitoring the code that you wrote and that you are supporting in production that implements one or more business processes that must be reliable…

The two things are entirely different Splunk is primarily a log collection, analysis, and visualization solution. It can collect metrics now as well. Its purpose is after the fact forensics (what happened) as a part of a problem resolution process. That problem can span…