One of the foundational steps in moving to DevOps is application monitoring, which is not always easy. There are many different possible performance problems and limitations, and the only way to track them down is by collecting information in bulk. Ask any developer who has maintained an application without the proper monitoring tools, and you'll probably hear a story or two about some issue that took months to track down or is still plaguing the application. Developers, server admins, and network engineers need information to be able to track down a problem.
In this article, I walk through an example of how application performance monitoring can help quickly discover, isolate, and solve problems that can negatively impact the user experience.
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