Performance Monitoring Resource Center
Guides and best practices for website monitoring, API monitoring, and application performance
Modern businesses heavily depend on their online presence and strive to deliver robust and consistent user experience. Performance monitoring tools are vitally important for companies that use websites, web apps, mobile or SaaS apps to connect to their customers or organizations. Better performance directly translates to better customer retention, increased revenue, increased customer lifetime value and elevated brand perception. However, as businesses grow, cross borders and expand their online offerings; delivering and continuously testing and monitoring world class applications becomes more challenging.
In the Age of the Customer, users decide where and how they would like to consume online services. Users expect 24x7 availability and seamless performance across all devices, networks and geographies. Proactively monitoring APIs and business critical applications to ensure that they are available, performing within desired threshold and are functionally correct across all diverse use cases; is the key to success in today's world. Read through our collection of resources to learn about best practices and important trends in the world of performance monitoring.
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Website Performance Monitoring
One second of web page load delay could cost you millions in online revenue per year. Learn how you can ensure positive user experience and find and fix issues before they impact your business.
Read article →API Monitoring
Digital transformation doesn't happen without APIs—and APIs don't succeed without monitoring. From performance to functional correctness, here's how the right monitoring approach can future-proof your apps and your business.
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What is an API Endpoint?
An API provides the language and contract for how two systems interact. Learn what an API endpoint is and how it fits into that exchange.
Read article →Why is Synthetic Monitoring Critical to DevOps?
Synthetic monitoring simulates users to catch issues before they happen. Learn why it's a critical part of a healthy DevOps practice.
Read article →What are Performance Monitoring Metrics?
From page load time to server response, learn the key metrics that help you measure and understand your end users' experience.
Read article →How to Monitor Microservices
Microservice architectures bring flexibility and scale, but also new monitoring challenges. Learn how to keep distributed services observable.
Read article →What is Mobile First Development?
Designing for mobile first means scaling up instead of scaling down. Learn why that approach leads to a better experience on every device.
Read article →What is Mobile Monitoring?
Mobile sessions and conversions keep climbing, and so do user expectations. Learn how mobile monitoring keeps frustration from creeping in.
Read article →What Is Real User Monitoring?
Real User Monitoring (RUM) captures data from actual users as they interact with your application, giving you insight into real-world performance.
Read article →What is Synthetic Monitoring?
Synthetic monitoring simulates users along your application's most common paths to surface uptime and performance issues before they do.
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