Application Performance Management for Dummies

There is a free e-Book which I found interesting. It's a book that treats a subject which is important at small, big or the biggest datacenters. It's an Application performance. There are Application performance management (APM) software tools which helps to monitor and troubleshoot those mission-critical applications.

Application Performance Management for Dummies is a free e-Book that you can request from this page here. (note that you'll need to provide some of your details, first time. Next offers needs just your e-mail to access the download).

A quote:

This book contains volumes of information that rival a map of the human genome, conveniently distilled into six short chapters chock-full of just the information you need! Each chapter is individually wrapped (but not packaged for individual sale) and written to stand on its own, so feel free to start reading anywhere and hop, skip, or jump between chapters.

The Content:

Chapter 1: Understanding What Application Performance Management Is
Chapter 2: From the Driver’s Seat: End-User Experience Monitoring.
Chapter 3: Looking Under the Hood: Transaction Tracing
Chapter 4: Horsepower and Fuel Efficiency
Chapter 5: Exploring the Application Performance Management Terrain
Chapter 6: Ten (Okay, Five) Application Performance Management Evaluation Criteria.

There is a phrase which is rather true:

Application Performance monitoring enables IT teams to  to monitor SLA compliance beyond simple uptime measures. Although “five nines” (99.999 percent) availability remains an important SLA metric for service providers, end-to-end responsiveness has quickly become a more relevant bellwether of
service levels for end users. Although individual components in an application infrastructure may be running within established performance thresholds, the end-to-end user experience may be slow or unresponsive, making the application or website appear, in effect, unavailable or “down.

The book is offered as a free limited time offer.

Here is a shot from the back:

Get your copy here.