Nowhere for a problem to hide
Instrumentation and topology work for an application performance monitoring product whose customers were leaving blind spots when they configured it.
01 — The challenge
Where it started.
Customers integrating the monitoring tool with their own applications were leaving configuration gaps, and the gaps sat precisely where distributed performance problems live.
The product was being judged on blind spots that came from configuration rather than from the product itself.
02 — What we built
The work itself.
Applications deployed across three agents. Representative applications built and run against the Java, Python and Node agents, to find where configuration actually breaks.
Custom scripts per stack. Instrumentation written for the technology combinations customers really use, rather than the reference one.
A redesigned topology view. The map of what calls what, presented so a gap is visible rather than implied.
03 — Results
What the client has now.
Recommendations incorporated into the product’s next release by the client’s own team. Application configuration reduced to a few clicks. Performance issues identifiable where previously they were inferred.
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