Gartner recently published an important report titled "Will IT Operations
Analytics Platforms Replace APM Suites?" The report is based on Gartner
client Inquiries about enterprise performance and availability strategies and
these enterprises report a near-universal commitment to the idea that
monitoring, performance and availability should be application-centric. At
the same time the report suggests the rate at which investments in new
on-premises Application Performance Monitoring (APM) technology appears to be
slowing down. It attributes this to observations that enterprises have
perhaps prematurely come to believe that IT operations analytics (ITOA)
platforms can be deployed as a substitute for traditional APM suites. It
concludes that IT operations analytics platforms are not a substitute for
traditional five-dimensional APM portfolios, but the importance of ana... (more)