Response times are in many – if not in most – cases the basis for performance analysis. When they are within expected boundaries everything is ok. When they get to high we start optimizing our applications. So response times play a central role in performance monitoring and analysis. In virtualized and cloud environments they are [...]
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This article was contributed from Keith A. Marshall, Lead Developer at Insight North America. Planning ahead has been my approach for the use of the dynaTrace. As much as dynaTrace is there to allow me to triage and investigate production issues at runtime, I believe that there is greater value in using the system as [...]
From time to time I access my work emails through Outlook Web Access (OWA) – which works really great on all browsers I run on my laptop (IE, FF, Chrome). Guessing that Microsoft probably optimized OWA for its own browser I thought that I will definitely find JavaScript code that doesn’t execute that well on [...]
Keith A. Marshall, Lead Developer at Insight North America, talks about how he identifies certain transactions by injecting specific HTTP Headers “on-the-fly” using Fiddler. Performance and Scalability testing are two important components in our software development and applications deployment lifecycle. The more information that is correlated from the testing the better the picture we get. [...]
Stefan Frandl, Test Automation Team Lead at dynaTrace, recently upgrade of our dynaTrace platform from Java 6u23 to Java 6u25.Since this upgrade we are experiencing random crashes in the Hotspot Compilation Thread on Windows. More details on the crash, the submitted bug report and a potential explanation in our dynaTrace Community Article.
// When we get engaged with prospects that are interested in our performance management solution we walk them through a Proof of Concept. We let them install dynaTrace on their own prior to the actual POC. During the POC we ask them to exercise typical use cases on their application that show performance problems. We [...]
// With its latest release, dynaTrace updates its Product Suite for Deep Dive, Automated Cross-Browser Web Performance Optimization with two products: dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.0 is the free standalone tool that has been downloaded by 30k+ users so far supporting both Firefox (3.6, 4.0) and Internet Explorer (6, 7 & 8 ) dynaTrace Development Team [...]
// If you are serious about Web Development then I am sure you are working on Web 2.0 Applications leveraging several JavaScript Frameworks, making XHR calls to the Server to retrieve dynamic content and also include 3rd party content such as Ads or Social Network Plugins. You probably also have Selenium, WebDriver or any other [...]
We have some power users out there that do great things with dynaTrace. One of them is Eugene who really got into dynaTrace Dashboards and custom Monitoring Plugins. He shared some of his dashboards with me to show to others. Interested in more? Read the full article What others do with dynaTrace Dashboards on the [...]
Over the last couple of weeks we ran a Closed Beta Program with some of our dynaTrace AJAX Edition Community Members. The big focus of dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.0 is Support for Firefox and Automation. Thanks to the feedback we are comfortable to open the beta up to the general public. Not yet though – [...]
