When cost is a major factor, New Relic generally fits the need. My employer doesn't have teams of people to scour thru millions of data points - we simply want to be operational & efficient, tackling the biggest issues first and ignoring everything else. Similar to this…

Dynatrace has a forte for providing all the data points that a developer could ever want. In essence, it is reasonable to believe that with Dynatrace and an aware dev group, 100% monitoring and tracing coverage could be achieved. However, all of this data comes with a…

When it comes to selecting an APM service provider, the costs vary as do the capabilities. In our organization, we operate with a thin technologist layer and also focus on 80/20 in troubleshooting. Generally, the higher the cost, the better the coverage out-of-the-box. So…

The question can be answered many ways, but what you really need to do is to account for the lowest common denominator of each variable. If you want to use a Mobile farm, you still can by profiling the Wi-Fi and using this as a test parameter. If you're more interested in…

My greatest success is optimizing Loadrunner with a risk-based approach while incorporating architecture and performance tuning into a single service. My greatest failure was in misconfiguring the Run-time Settings, thereby arriving at a false sense of performance. I also…