Collect telemetry data to get a deep understanding of application performance.
This requirements table for APM and Observability products clearly outlines the key features and functionalities considered when evaluating vendors. We include Observability, Pricing, Integration, Compliance, Monitoring, Instrumentation, Problem Resolution and Use Case Fit.
Other important considerations may include the level of technical support offered, the availability of detailed documentation and developer resources, and pricing and licensing options. Customize these requirements in Taloflow and get expert ratings for 15 different vendors against all of the features in the table below, including None.
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| Must be suitable for enterprise setups and environments | Must provide a solution that can handle large-scale, complex enterprise environments. |
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| Must have a pricing structure suitable for the use case | Must offer a pricing plan that is appropriate for the specific use case, consumption patterns, and budget. |
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| Must have dynamic instrumentation | The solution should allow for dynamic instrumentation, use open source technologies, and enable the monitoring of specific parts of the application on-demand. |
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| Must have real-time metrics | Must provide real-time, near real-time, or live metrics in the dashboard to help identify and troubleshoot issues as they occur. |
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| Must integrate with alerting and issue tracking tools | Must integrate with other tools for alerting and issue tracking, such as PagerDuty or Jira. |
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| Must meet authentication and access control standards | Must meet industry-standard authentication and access control requirements. |
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| Must meet compliance standards | Must meet compliance requirements for the relevant industry or regulatory standards. |
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| Must monitor container status and usage | Must monitor the status and usage of containers, such as Kubernetes. |
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| Must provide flexible deployment options | Must offer multiple deployment options, such as on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid. |
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| Must provide robust observability tools | Must offer a wide range of observability tools, such as metrics, logging, tracing, and profiling, with high cardinality analytics and under developer control. It must also capture the code profile for every trace/transaction. |
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| Must resolve problems at scale | Must be able to handle and troubleshoot issues that may arise as the system grows in size and complexity. |
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| Must suit the system architecture | The solution should be compatible with the existing system architecture. |
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| Must support code profiling for diverse languages and frameworks | Must support code profiling for a wide variety of programming languages and frameworks. |
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| Must support logging for diverse languages and frameworks | Must support logging for a wide variety of programming languages and frameworks. |
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| Must support metrics for diverse languages and frameworks | Must support metrics collection for a wide variety of programming languages and frameworks. |
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| Must support tracing for diverse languages and frameworks | Must support tracing for a wide variety of programming languages and frameworks. |
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