The Ultimate Guide to Application Performance Monitoring
A curated Asian edition of IndustrialDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Application Performance Monitoring (APM).
What to know about Application Performance Monitoring
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a crucial discipline in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, where the performance and reliability of software applications directly impact business outcomes. This collection of stories delves into various advancements, challenges, and innovations related to monitoring, managing, and enhancing the performance of applications across diverse industries and environments.
Readers can explore how emerging technologies such as AI and automation are being integrated into application monitoring platforms to provide deeper insights, accelerate issue resolution, and improve overall user experience. The stories also highlight practical implementations of APM in sectors like healthcare, insurance, and finance, demonstrating how real-world organizations are leveraging these tools to streamline processes, optimize workflows, and achieve digital transformation goals.
Whether you're interested in the latest trends, case studies, or strategic approaches to accelerating software delivery while ensuring operational excellence, these stories offer valuable perspectives. Discover how innovative APM solutions are addressing the complexities of hybrid cloud setups, multi-cloud observability, and security in modern application environments, making this a rich resource for IT professionals, developers, and decision-makers.
Asian Application Performance Monitoring News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
PayMongo taps Datadog to boost payments reliability
Incident response at the Philippines-based payments firm has fallen from hours to minutes, helping it fix most issues before merchants are hit.
Singapore phishing drill cuts clicks as training pays
Repeated phishing training helped cut Singapore staff click rates to 7.4% from 17%, despite more than 8,500 fake emails sent.
Modulus Labs cuts incident response time by 40% with Datadog
Payment failures now surface in seconds for Modulus Labs after it unified monitoring and security, cutting resolution time by more than 40 per cent.
LinkedIn names DBS top Singapore employer for career growth
Singapore jobseekers face fiercer competition as LinkedIn’s latest ranking shows financial services still dominate career-growth prospects.
Anthropic partners NEC to deploy Claude across 30,000
The rollout will bring Anthropic's Claude tools to about 30,000 NEC employees and strengthen AI services for Japanese firms and government bodies.
NEC teams with Anthropic for Japan AI enterprise tools
The tie-up could speed secure AI adoption for regulated Japanese firms, with NEC set to roll out Claude to about 30,000 staff.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Application Performance Monitoring
Citrix adds managed observability & developer services
Datadog named Gartner observability leader for sixth year
Grafana Labs named leader in Gartner observability report
Strike Graph launches Trust Chain for supplier risk
Kong launches Agent Gateway for multi-agent AI traffic
Expert Columns
Why the next phase of industrial AI will be measured in uptime, energy savings and output
How AI is changing the rules when it comes to observability
Why trust is the bottleneck for AI-driven operations
Leading Agentic AI teams in Singapore: What technology leaders should know
Why AI-powered security needs network telemetry across the hybrid cloud
How Observability Serves as the Control Layer for AI Growth
Atlassian scales AI search with OpenSearch on Kubernetes
It's time to make a genuine effort to retain experienced and capable women
How to navigate a career change into tech. As a woman. In your 40s
AI won't reduce construction disputes unless documentation improves
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the network
Nexon cuts log latency with Confluent Cloud migration
Exclusive: Grafana Lab's Jen Villa on targeting the AI observability gap
Exclusive: How Adobe showcases its innovation engine
UiPath Accelerates AI in Software Development and Testing
Grafana: Turning data chaos into developer efficiency and CFO savings
Recent Application Performance Monitoring News
Datadog launches tools to monitor & test user journeys
The new tools aim to help teams spot when customers fail to complete checkout, sign-in or onboarding, despite healthy system metrics.
GetGo cuts bug hunts with Datadog monitoring platform
Bug hunts at the Singapore car-sharing operator are now 50 to 60 per cent faster, helping engineers spot faults before customers notice them.
Constellation names three Bizzdesign tools to ShortList
The recognition may help Bizzdesign gain traction with buyers under pressure to align IT spending, risk and AI-led change with business priorities.
Dynatrace buys Arize in USD $915m AI observability deal
The tie-up could give enterprises a single way to track AI model quality and system performance as production deployments accelerate.
Grafana Labs adds adaptive profiles to observability suite
Rising observability bills are prompting teams to trim data, as Grafana Cloud now varies profiling detail and frequency to cut costs.
Island launches enterprise vibe publishing for employee apps
Governance gaps are widening as AI-assisted coding lets non-engineers create internal apps faster than companies can review them.
groundcover raises USD $100 million in Series C round
It will fund North American expansion and product development as observability demand rises with cloud and AI workloads, after revenue tripled.
OpenSearchCon North America 2026 unveils speaker line-up
Five years on, the project's growth into enterprise and public-sector infrastructure is reflected in a 60-plus-session agenda on AI and observability.
AWS adds Claude Sonnet 5 as it trims older services
New cloud features and lifecycle cuts could reshape AWS customers' AI and operations plans as older services head towards maintenance or sunset.
Reo.Dev passes 100 million profiles in developer graph
Developer-sales teams gain a wider pool of buyers to target as the graph now tracks engineers across 30,000 technologies and 250 functions.
Google adds SQL alerting to Cloud Monitoring preview
Cloud operations teams could spot customer-specific outages sooner as monitoring alerts are now triggered by SQL queries over logs and traces.
New Relic launches startup AI observability programme
The offer gives early-stage AI startups free monitoring and engineering support as software failures can quickly damage customer trust and funding prospects.
Tsuga raises USD $35 million to expand AI observability
Rising AI data volumes are forcing observability vendors to rethink pricing and storage as Tsuga wins fresh backing to keep telemetry in-house.
Fullstory launches AI tools to analyse user activity
The launch aims to let firms spot user and employee problems faster, cutting manual analysis and speeding fixes for faults and bottlenecks.
Virtana launches agentic SLA management for AI ops
Enterprises wrestling with AI workload failures and infrastructure bottlenecks may use the new tool to automate incident response and service assurance.
Grafana wins AI customers as observability shifts cloud
Rising AI workloads are pushing more firms towards managed monitoring as operational complexity and telemetry costs make self-hosted tools harder to justify.
AI code praised in review, but faults rise in production
Yet live deployments are causing headaches for engineering teams, with most respondents reporting more incidents and heavier rework after AI code goes live.
Datadog launches 100 AI tools for operations & security
The rollout aims to help customers tame rising AI-driven complexity as Datadog adds autonomous monitoring, security and agent oversight tools.
Coralogix raises USD $200 million to expand AI observability
The funding backs Coralogix's push to help companies cope with heavier AI telemetry and rising observability costs as software becomes more automated.
Zana Stojanovski wins Dynatrace APAC special award
The award underscores rising demand for local observability expertise as Avocado's Dynatrace business has grown more than 500% year on year.
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