Cloud applications are very different than their traditional data center counterparts. They are more dynamic, they depend on more components and services, they are updated more frequently and they are often hosted beyond the data center. Due to the focus on more horizontal than vertical scaling, cloud applications also tend to be more distributed, with more moving parts then their predecessors. Even more importantly, much of the infrastructure that your application relies on is outside of your control and shared with others!

As new blind-spots emerge – 3^rd party cloud services, hypervisor dynamics, disconnected host metrics, limited network visibility, temporary virtual machines and so on – visibility and control can easily be lost. As issues impact application availability and performance and the user experience, the time and pressure to resolve them can mount.

New generation APM from Compuware allows IT to regain visibility and reclaim control. Cloud applications can be deployed faster, with fewer issues and no blind-spots. Regressions are detected automatically and visibility into third party services is gained. And it can be done in hours, not weeks or months like the old generation. Some of the unique capabilities of Compuware APM for cloud applications are:

• Focus Application Centric Monitoring and Analysis first instead of secondary infrastructure metrics. Enable your Operations to focus on what matters, the performance and stability of your business application.
• Zero-configuration, self-learning and auto-adaptive for easy set-up and management of even the most dynamic, elastic cloud environments.

• Automatic multi-variant baselines for smart out-of-the-box dashboards for IT operations and business managers. Know instantly if the underlying virtual hardware had was at fault for an application degradation, even if the virtual machine was retired in the mean time.
  

• Integrated user experience monitoring for both mobile and web applications to assure problems are prioritized by user/business impact. Important visibility is regained as more and more of the delivered content comes from third party providers, CDNs and data centers outside of your control.

• Combined real-user and synthetic monitoring to assure both performance and availability SLAs are met.
• Embedded lifecycle performance management to speed new application enhancements to market with fewer bugs and no regressions.
• Automated Performance Regression Testing to keep pace with your faster deployment cycle
• Real-time transaction guest/host topology map for a 3-D model of cloud application dependencies, including 3^rd party cloud services – all transactions, 24x7.

Compuware APM can be deployed easily into private, public or hybrid cloud applications via either BYOL (bring your own license) or elastic, consumption based models.