The Ultimate Guide to Application Performance Monitoring
A curated Irish edition of TechDay 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.
Irish Application Performance Monitoring News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Irish IT teams under stress amid staff shortages & AI
Staff shortages, legacy systems and AI demands are leaving most IT decision-makers in Irish companies reporting stress and mental health issues.
Storm Technology names Conor Flanagan as Practise Director
The internal promotion comes as demand grows for ERP projects that join finance reporting, operations and AI-enabled automation on one platform.
AI shifts client expectations as fees face pressure
Fees are under pressure as two-thirds of service providers say clients want more for less and expect AI to cut costs.
Ireland data & AI workers resist job moves, survey finds
Most Irish data and AI professionals are staying put as employers prepare to expand teams and compete for scarce talent.
Why health IT projects fail at the data layer
Fragmented records and weak governance are making health IT roll-outs slower, costlier and less effective than budgets suggest.
Auxilion names Eleanor Dempsey Advisory Services Chief
Auxilion has promoted Eleanor Dempsey to lead its advisory services, expanding her remit as it targets growth in Ireland and the UK.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Application Performance Monitoring
Strike Graph launches Trust Chain for supplier risk
Kong launches Agent Gateway for multi-agent AI traffic
Gigamon eyes AI-led surge in network observability
Thoughtworks: The inside line on AI software development from the company that created Agile
Rafay & Argentum AI strike software orchestration deal
Featured News
Exclusive: Grafana Lab's Jen Villa on targeting the AI observability gap
The new tools aim to help firms spot faulty AI outputs and data risks sooner as production deployments outpace monitoring methods.
Exclusive: How Adobe showcases its innovation engine
Ideas from across Adobe are vetted live at Summit, and some have gone on to become products after further testing and hardening.
UiPath Accelerates AI in Software Development and Testing
UiPath is pushing AI deeper into software testing, promising autonomous agents that transform quality assurance and developers' roles.
Grafana: Turning data chaos into developer efficiency and CFO savings
Grafana leans on AI-powered observability and Adaptive Telemetry to sharpen developer insight while slashing cloud bills by up to 50%.
Expert Columns
Why trust is the bottleneck for AI-driven operations
Why health IT projects fail at the data layer
Why AI-powered security needs network telemetry across the hybrid cloud
Construction claims are shaped before disputes begin
Atlassian scales AI search with OpenSearch on Kubernetes
How to navigate a career change into tech. As a woman. In your 40s
AI won't reduce construction disputes unless documentation improves
Women own the most underrated skill in tech: Translation
Building inclusively at scale: Empowering women in the data center boom
International Women's Day: Expanding access, accelerating progress
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent Application Performance Monitoring News
Equinix to invest USD $700 million in Dundalk plant
Equinix will invest up to USD $700 million in a new Dundalk plant with Hanley Energy, promising hundreds of skilled jobs and faster kit supply.
IPNetwork Monitor adds AI control to on-premise tools
Small businesses can now automate on-premise network checks with AI agents, without exposing monitoring data to outside cloud services.
Avantra 26 adds AI root cause tool for SAP operations
Avantra 26 adds AI root cause analysis tool to speed SAP incident resolution and deepen links with Cloud ALM and BTP.
Sonatype joins Linux Foundation registry working group
Sonatype joins Linux Foundation registry working group to tackle funding, governance and security pressures as package downloads near 10 trillion.
Dynatrace named leader in GigaOm Kubernetes report
As Kubernetes deployments spread, operators are under pressure to cut incident times and pin down faults across complex cloud estates.
Atlassian opens Teamwork Graph to third-party AI tools
Customers can now plug external AI agents into Atlassian’s workplace data layer, with permissions kept intact across more than 150 billion connections.
Vultr, SUSE & Supermicro team up for AI edge cloud
Enterprises running AI across multiple sites may cut latency and costs as the partners link cloud, edge hardware and Kubernetes management.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5-Cyber for vetted defenders
Vetted security teams will get fewer refusals on authorised tasks as OpenAI tightens access around its most permissive cyber model.
Anthropic adds dreaming & multiagent tools for Claude
Developers get new ways to boost Claude agents’ accuracy and scale, as Anthropic rolls out memory, grading and parallel task handling.
Synack launches Sara AI Pentesting for wider coverage
The move aims to widen security coverage as firms struggle to test expanding attack surfaces quickly enough.
monday.com rebuilds platform around AI work agents
The revamp puts AI agents into everyday workflows for 250,000 customers as monday.com seeks to turn a work tool into a broader platform.
AI inference becomes core operational workload in firms
Most firms are now running AI in production, with hybrid clouds and security controls becoming crucial as inference overtakes training.
Smartsheet launches Portfolios & Scenario Planning tools
Teams juggling multiple projects can now compare resourcing and timeline changes before updating live plans, reducing manual rework and blind spots.
PolyAI picks Kong to scale enterprise API platform
Enterprise customers using PolyAI’s Agent Studio should see easier onboarding and tighter governance as Kong Konnect underpins its API scale-up.
Tanium, ServiceNow launch autonomous IT operations tool
The tie-up aims to cut investigation times and patching errors by feeding live endpoint data into ServiceNow workflows and AI agents.
New Relic launches AI knowledge layer for IT incidents
It aims to cut outage investigation time for engineers by combining live telemetry with incident history, changes and service context.
LogicMonitor adds IBM watsonx & Red Hat to Edwin AI
The tie-up could cut downtime for enterprises by letting AI detect incidents, generate playbooks and trigger fixes across hybrid estates.
CrowdStrike widens QuiltWorks & launches Defender hunting
Enterprises using Microsoft Defender will get round-the-clock human-led threat hunting, as CrowdStrike also broadens its AI risk coalition across partners.
Prismatic launches Claude Code plugin for integrations
Developers can now build and operate product integrations inside Claude Code as Prismatic targets a tricky workflow that general coding tools miss.
Tenable finds GitHub workflow flaw in Microsoft repo
A flaw in a widely watched Microsoft repository could have let attackers run code and steal secrets through GitHub Actions, Tenable said.