# Application Monitoring Software & Tools | ManageEngine Applications Manager ## Application monitoring Ensure peak application performance and rapid fault resolution. - APM and infra monitoring for apps and its dependencies - 24/7 granular level tracking - Smart alerts and auto-remediation workflows - Tailored dashboards for quick response ### Ensure optimal performance of your business applications with Applications Manager In a fast-paced business climate where digital experiences dictate success, organizations often rely on comprehensive **[application monitoring tools](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/application-monitoring-tools.html)**. These application monitoring solutions automatically alert organizations of potential performance degradation so that necessary corrective steps can be taken ahead of time. Utilizing real-time data, performance statistics, and prediction projections, **[Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/)** strives to provide complete visibility into the application infrastructure and guarantee continuous availability. A robust application monitor has helped countless DevOps teams ease their IT workload by providing complete visibility into their complex application infrastructure, lending a critical hand in automated fault management. ### But first, what is application monitoring? **[Application monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/)** is an essential feature that enables real-time analysis of both front-end and back-end performance of critical business applications. It plays a crucial role in ensuring uninterrupted functioning of an application by providing valuable insights into its availability, performance, and [end-user experience](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/end-user-experience-monitoring.html). Proactive [server and application monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/application-server-monitoring.html) helps in swiftly identifying and resolving any potential issues in your infrastructure, reducing downtime, and ultimately enhancing overall user satisfaction. [Learn more about what is application monitoring →](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/tech-topics/what-is-application-monitoring.html) ### Why is monitoring your application important? [End-users](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/end-user-monitoring.html) are bound to get frustrated when experiencing a slow responding business application that could prompt them to look for alternatives. Using application monitoring, one can gain insight into the health of the application ecosystem and get notified of potential anomalies to prevent application outages. A good tool will feature a visual dashboard that presents data to help understand how the application is performing and pinpoint areas that need improvement. Without application monitoring software, it would be impossible to identify and prevent performance problems—like finding a needle in a haystack. ## Application monitoring capabilities in Applications Manager ### With our application monitoring software, you can: - Maintain constant uptime - Improve application user experience - Prevent application outages - Map applications to dependent components - Gain visibility into application infrastructure - Reduce costs ### Track, analyze, and troubleshoot application performance Applications Manager's [APM](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/apm/apm.html) tool helps [DevOps teams](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/devops-monitoring.html) understand the behavior of their applications and how they perform from a back-end perspective. With comprehensive visual aids like graphs and charts, the application monitoring dashboard aims to educate users on the status of their application at a glance and provide data required to ensure constant uptime. Applications Manager's [application performance monitor](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/application-performance-monitor.html) displays metrics such as *Apdex Score (user satisfaction level), response time, throughput, request count, error percentage, and number of exceptions* for applications being monitored. ![Application monitoring platform - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/application-monitoring-tools-apm.webp) ![application monitoring metrics - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/application-monitoring-real-time-performance.webp) ![Real-time performance metrics displayed in web application monitoring dashboard](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/application-monitoring-tool.webp) The tool performs [application performance monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/application-performance-monitoring.html) by tracking background transactions, database operations, app parameters, and thread profiles. The **application monitor** lists multiple transactions which can be filtered based on response rate, error rate, request count, and Apdex score. By carefully monitoring these elements, one can easily identify culprits that are performing poorly and use the tool to drill down further for code-level insights. Our application monitoring tool supports functionalities like custom instrumentation, auto-scale handling, distributed tracing, thread profiling, and automated service maps that developers can implement as part of their application management strategy. ### Map application dependencies using application monitor Using visual maps to establish the connection between applications and their components is crucial when it comes to application monitoring. As the number of interdependencies can be quite high in a large IT environment, having a feature such as application dependency mapping makes it easier to identify the exact point of weakness visually. ![Monitor applications and dependencies - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/application-resource-monitoring-service-map.webp) ![Dependency mapping visualizing servers and nodes in business application monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/application-monitoring-service-dependency-maps.webp) Our applications monitoring software uses application discovery and dependency mapping (ADDM) to help paint a picture of how different resources are connected in an application infrastructure. It automatically detects applications running on different servers and network devices, plots the relation between them, and presents a holistic view of your entire network in the form of a map. New applications and resources found will be automatically added to the maps based on the discovery schedule provided by users. **Applications Manager offers four different map views:** - **Application to server dependency map:** A view that establishes the relationship between all the servers and their applications. - **Application to application dependency map:** A view that establishes the relationship between all the applications that are running on the same and different servers. - **Business service map:** A view that establishes the relationship between different monitor groups, the interdependent resources, and applications. - **World map:** A global geographical view used to visualize the health and status of your websites, services, and locations across the world, often used in conjunction with Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) for a real-time, geographical understanding of user experience. ### Dive deep into your application stack Applications that are essential to business operations are typically backed by an ecosystem of resources; if one fails, the entire structure crumbles. It may be time-consuming and expensive, but tracking the entire application stack is necessary. Applications Manager's application monitor keeps track of all your application components and facilitates integration with other IT operations management tools within a single console. **Different monitoring features offered by Applications Manager:** - [Server monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/server-monitoring.html) - [Container monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/container-monitoring.html) - [Service monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/service-monitoring.html) - [Web Server monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/webserver-monitoring.html) - [Cloud monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/cloud-monitoring.html) - [Website monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/website-monitoring.html) - [ERP monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/erp-monitoring.html) - [Application server monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/application-server-monitoring.html) - [Database monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/database-monitoring.html) - [VM monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/virtual-machine-monitor.html) - [Middleware monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/middleware-portal-monitoring.html) - [CI monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/converged-infrastructure-monitoring.html) Applications Manager's application monitoring software is the right [application performance monitoring solution](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/application-performance-monitoring-solution.html) to satisfy the monitoring needs of small, medium, and large business organizations alike with support for over 150+ business applications. With intelligent reports, alarms, and tracking functionalities, our application monitoring solution leaves no stone unturned when it comes to providing visibility into one's application stack. ### How Applications Manager's Application Monitor reduces mean time to resolution (MTTR) By providing code-level diagnostics, automated root cause analysis (RCA), and contextual alerts, Applications Manager's application monitor empowers IT teams to pinpoint exact bottlenecks, whether it is a slow SQL query, a memory leak, or a failing third-party API. Integrating seamlessly with your existing tech stack, it allows you to: - **Automate threat & error isolation:** Quickly isolate faults within complex microservices architectures. - **Establish historical baselines:** Compare current application anomalies against historical performance baselines to detect deviations instantly. - **Streamline DevOps workflows:** Bridge the gap between development and operations by providing a single source of truth for application health. ### Improve application user experience Understanding how users perceive your application can be quite tricky as there are various real-world factors that can affect their experience. By having clear knowledge of your application's front-end performance, you can provide users with a smooth and fast digital journey. Application monitoring solutions like Applications Manager capture user-centric data and arm you with information that can be used to improve the overall customer experience of your web application. ![Application monitoring software - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/application-monitor-world-map.webp) ![Application monitors - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/application-monitoring-solution-apm-insight.webp) ![User experience metrics like Apdex tracked using application monitoring charts](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/application-monitoring-device-end-user.webp) Applications Manager has a [real user monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/real-user-monitoring.html) function that captures the user's satisfaction level (Apdex Score), view count, error count, and page load speed (response time) metrics. Serving as a tool for real-time application monitoring, it helps you discover how your application performs across different countries, browsers, device types, and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Additionally, developers can track user activity through their web application to identify slow transactions, bulky resources, and potential errors. ![real user application monitoring - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/application-monitoring-system-real-user.webp) ![Application monitoring best practices - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/application-monitoring-user-sessions.webp) ![Synthetic transactions and availability visualized in full stack application monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/application-transaction-monitoring.webp) Our synthetic monitoring feature provides an opportunity to comprehend how your web application behaves across different locations. By recording every step that a user takes while interacting with your web app, the monitor provides health, availability, and loading time for each page. It also provides a visual dissection of page resources and total loading time that can be used for performance analysis and to rectify slow performance. Applications Manager is an **application monitoring software** that offers an array of features to empower developers with insights into the challenges their end-users face and help them improve customer experience.