Gartner defines application performance monitoring (APM) as one or more software and hardware components that facilitate monitoring to meet five main functional dimensions: end-user experience monitor [..]

Application performance monitoring (also called application performance management) is one of the keys to optimizing application performance, whether in a traditional or web-based application environment. APM looks at end user application performance data, application/network resource demands, and business rules/IT metrics to assess application per [..]