What is Desktop APM?
Desktop APM (Application Performance Monitoring) software provides visibility into the availability, performance, and usage of desktop and line-of-business applications. It helps IT teams monitor crashes, errors, slowdowns, and other issues that impact end user productivity.
Key capabilities include:
- Crash and error monitoring - Get alerts when apps crash or throw errors that impact users.
- Performance monitoring - Detect performance problems like slow load times or laggy workflows.
- User experience monitoring - Measure time to interact, workflows, and adoption.
- Device and version visibility - Understand which devices and OS versions apps run on.
- Usage analytics - See which features employees use in an app.
- Resource monitoring - Spot memory leaks, high CPU, or excessive data usage.
Leading products include Raygun, Bugsnag, Sentry, New Relic, Datadog APM, and Dynatrace. These give engineering and operations teams the data they need to provide excellent app quality and performance. Integrations with collaboration tools facilitate fast communication to resolve issues.
By leveraging desktop APM tools, IT teams can achieve much higher app uptime, faster problem resolution, and an improved work experience.
Toggl Track, Clockify, RescueTime, ManicTime, Time Doctor, Cattr, TimeCamp, timeEdition, timeBuzzer, Paymo, Trackabi are some alternatives to Desktop APM.