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Application Performance Management: State of the Art and Challenges for the Future

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Christoph Heger,

André van Hoorn,

Dušan OkanovićAuthors Info & Claims

ICPE '17: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering

Pages 429 - 432

https://doi.org/10.1145/3030207.3053674

Published: 17 April 2017 Publication History

Abstract

The performance of application systems has a direct impact on business metrics. For example, companies lose customers and revenue in case of poor performance such as high response times. Application performance management (APM) aims to provide the required processes and tools to have a continuous and up-to-date picture of relevant performance measures during operations, as well as to support the detection and resolution of performance-related incidents.

In this tutorial paper, we provide an overview of the state of the art in APM in industrial practice and academic research, highlight current challenges, and outline future research directions.

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Index Terms

Application Performance Management: State of the Art and Challenges for the Future
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Metrics
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Maintaining software
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Extra-functional properties
      1. Software performance

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ICPE '17: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering

April 2017

450 pages

ISBN:9781450344043

DOI:10.1145/3030207

General Chairs:
Walter Binder
Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
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Vittorio Cortellessa
Università dell'Aquila, Italy
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Anne Koziolek
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
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Evgenia Smirni
College of William & Mary, USA
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Meikel Poess
Oracle Corporation, USA

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