New Gartner Quadrant for Application Monitoring (APM) Solutions

Meet Gartner's new Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring 2019.

This year the report was released on March 14th. Gartner predicts a fourfold growth in the APM monitoring market due to the digitalization of business processes and coverage of 20% of all business applications by 2021. Unfortunately, the report does not provide data on the methodology for calculating this growth, but when the word digitalization or digital transformation is spoken, the game “Bulsheet Bingo” comes to mind.

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In the article, I will do without game elements and give my brief analytics of the APM solutions market according to the Gartner report. Under the cut you will also find a link to the original report.

This year, the criteria for inclusion of an APM solution in the report still include three key requirements:

Monitoring of digital experience (Digital Experience Monitoring, DEM). DEM is the discipline of availability and performance monitoring that improves the experience for everyone who interacts with enterprise applications and services. For the purposes of this study, real user monitoring (RUM) and synthetic transaction monitoring for both end users and mobile devices are included.

Application Discovery, Tracking, and Diagnostics (ADTD). Application discovery, monitoring, and diagnostics is a set of processes designed to understand the relationships between application servers, correlate transactions between those nodes, and provide deep method validation using bytecode instrumentation (BCI) and distributed tracing.

Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps). AIOps platforms combine the functionality of big data and machine learning to support IT operations. AIOps for Applications provides automatic discovery of performance models and events or clusters, detects anomalies in time series event data, and determines the root cause of application performance problems. AIOps does this through machine learning, statistical inference, or other methods.

The Gartner Magic Quadrants are divided into 4 quadrants: Leaders, Challengers, Strategists, and Niche Players. Each vendor is placed in a quadrant based on its strengths, weaknesses, market share and user feedback, among other metrics. The 12 vendors Gartner has included this time around are Broadcom (CA Technologies), Cisco (AppDynamics), Dynatrace, IBM, ManageEngine, Micro Focus, Microsoft, New Relic, Oracle, Riverbed, SolarWinds, and Tingyun.

So drum roll...

Last year's quadrant is here

Link to the original report

The current Magic Quadrant is strikingly consistent with last year's report. The "Leaders" and "Challengers" sectors remained unchanged at all. Broadcom, Cisco, Dynatrace, and New Relic have taken root in the leader sector, and IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Riverbed in the contender sector. But there are no strategists this year at all (last year it was the same).

The only changes were in the niche player category, which saw the removal of three vendors last year: BMC, Correlsense and Nastel. technologies. BMC no longer offers an APM tool, and Correlsense and Nastel stopped meeting this year's Gartner requirements.

This year, Gartner continues the vector of last year's Magic Quadrant and left the strategist sector empty. Gartner describes strategists as vendors who "provide products that have developed a compelling blueprint for competitively meeting current and future APM market demands, but whose current product portfolio is still under development."

The lack of strategists suggests that the APM market is in a state of stagnation in terms of development. This may indicate that the current APM solutions are fully functional to address emerging issues. All leaders except Broadcom have been them for seven years in a row, so perhaps their vision and strategy is enough to move the market forward.

If there are no new developments in the market (such as mergers or acquisitions), next year the Magic Quadrant will not change much. Gartner concluded that the market is healthy despite no quadrant changes. But they noted that new manufacturers need to introduce new functionality or focus on a specific niche in order to compete with established vendors (I'm talking about leaders).

In its study, Gartner also reported that APM vendors are expanding monitoring capabilities in most areas, including applications, networks, databases, and servers. It's clear that vendors want to capitalize on every monitoring market they can.

Below is a list of vendors that seem to be close to inclusion in the quadrant, but fall short of the criteria:

• correlsense;
• datadog;
• elastic;
• honeycomb;
• Instana;
• jennifer soft
• light step;
• Nastel Technologies;
• SignalFx;
• Splunk
• Sysdig.

I think that if one of them unites, next year we will see a new leader. It's just a question of how quickly they can make a monolithic solution by integrating their products.

Please complete the survey at the end of the article. Let's see how Gartner analytics is comparable to Russian realities.

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What monitoring product do you use in your company?

• Broadcom (CA Technologies)

• Cisco (AppDynamics)

• dynaTrace

• IBM

• ManageEngine

• Micro Focus

• Microsoft

• New Relic

• Oracle

• Riverbed

• Solarwinds

• Tingyu

• Other commercial

• Other free

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Source: habr.com