The Ultimate Guide to Application Performance Monitoring
A curated Kiwi 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.
Kiwi Application Performance Monitoring News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Cello buys GKC Consulting to boost digital resilience
Customers will get fewer handovers during outages as Cello folds GKC Consulting's observability expertise into its network operations business.
Gallagher Security launches New Zealand hiring drive
Up to 100 roles will open this year as the Hamilton-based firm expands software, testing and product teams for its Command Centre platform.
Scentian Bio raises GBP £5.5 million for food sensor
The new funding will help Scentian Bio start shipping its handheld food quality sensor within months and set up manufacturing in Auckland.
Genesis Energy completes four-month systems overhaul
Thousands of Genesis Energy customers should see faster billing and better service after a compressed four-month overhaul of core systems.
Primary export growth lifts demand for industrial property
Rising food and fibre exports are driving more demand for warehouses and cold storage, with Calder Stewart’s pipeline set to double.
LogicMonitor boosts New Zealand push with local data hub
LogicMonitor will open its first New Zealand data centre and expand local partners to support rising cloud, AI and hybrid IT demand.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Application Performance Monitoring
Citrix adds managed observability & developer services
Datadog named Gartner observability leader for sixth year
Grafana Labs named leader in Gartner observability report
The path to autonomous operations: Why observability is the reliability layer for AI
Strike Graph launches Trust Chain for supplier risk
Featured News
Reviews
Expert Columns
Why the next phase of industrial AI will be measured in uptime, energy savings and output
How AI is changing the rules when it comes to observability
Why trust is the bottleneck for AI-driven operations
Why AI-powered security needs network telemetry across the hybrid cloud
How Observability Serves as the Control Layer for AI Growth
Construction claims are shaped before disputes begin
Atlassian scales AI search with OpenSearch on Kubernetes
From 398 to 200 Days: Understanding the TLS Certificate Lifespan Reduction
It's time to make a genuine effort to retain experienced and capable women
How to navigate a career change into tech. As a woman. In your 40s
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the network
Recent Application Performance Monitoring News
GetGo cuts bug hunts with Datadog monitoring platform
Bug hunts at the Singapore car-sharing operator are now 50 to 60 per cent faster, helping engineers spot faults before customers notice them.
Constellation names three Bizzdesign tools to ShortList
The recognition may help Bizzdesign gain traction with buyers under pressure to align IT spending, risk and AI-led change with business priorities.
Dynatrace buys Arize in USD $915m AI observability deal
The tie-up could give enterprises a single way to track AI model quality and system performance as production deployments accelerate.
Grafana Labs adds adaptive profiles to observability suite
Rising observability bills are prompting teams to trim data, as Grafana Cloud now varies profiling detail and frequency to cut costs.
Island launches enterprise vibe publishing for employee apps
Governance gaps are widening as AI-assisted coding lets non-engineers create internal apps faster than companies can review them.
groundcover raises USD $100 million in Series C round
It will fund North American expansion and product development as observability demand rises with cloud and AI workloads, after revenue tripled.
OpenSearchCon North America 2026 unveils speaker line-up
Five years on, the project's growth into enterprise and public-sector infrastructure is reflected in a 60-plus-session agenda on AI and observability.
AWS adds Claude Sonnet 5 as it trims older services
New cloud features and lifecycle cuts could reshape AWS customers' AI and operations plans as older services head towards maintenance or sunset.
Elastic adds native Prometheus support for metrics
Cloud-native teams could cut observability bills as Elastic says its rebuilt metrics engine stores data more efficiently and queries up to 30 times faster.
Reo.Dev passes 100 million profiles in developer graph
Developer-sales teams gain a wider pool of buyers to target as the graph now tracks engineers across 30,000 technologies and 250 functions.
Google adds SQL alerting to Cloud Monitoring preview
Cloud operations teams could spot customer-specific outages sooner as monitoring alerts are now triggered by SQL queries over logs and traces.
New Relic launches startup AI observability programme
The offer gives early-stage AI startups free monitoring and engineering support as software failures can quickly damage customer trust and funding prospects.
Tsuga raises USD $35 million to expand AI observability
Rising AI data volumes are forcing observability vendors to rethink pricing and storage as Tsuga wins fresh backing to keep telemetry in-house.
Fullstory launches AI tools to analyse user activity
The launch aims to let firms spot user and employee problems faster, cutting manual analysis and speeding fixes for faults and bottlenecks.
Virtana launches agentic SLA management for AI ops
Enterprises wrestling with AI workload failures and infrastructure bottlenecks may use the new tool to automate incident response and service assurance.
Grafana wins AI customers as observability shifts cloud
Rising AI workloads are pushing more firms towards managed monitoring as operational complexity and telemetry costs make self-hosted tools harder to justify.
AI code praised in review, but faults rise in production
Yet live deployments are causing headaches for engineering teams, with most respondents reporting more incidents and heavier rework after AI code goes live.
Datadog launches 100 AI tools for operations & security
The rollout aims to help customers tame rising AI-driven complexity as Datadog adds autonomous monitoring, security and agent oversight tools.
Coralogix raises USD $200 million to expand AI observability
The funding backs Coralogix's push to help companies cope with heavier AI telemetry and rising observability costs as software becomes more automated.
Zana Stojanovski wins Dynatrace APAC special award
The award underscores rising demand for local observability expertise as Avocado's Dynatrace business has grown more than 500% year on year.
Job Moves
eG Innovations names Joanne Bowey to lead New Zealand
Capture The Bug adds US tech leaders for North American push
Paul Littlefair appointed Chair to lead TUANZ strategic future
Kordia appoints Willo Chapman Head of Sales for cyber & cloud
Spectrum appoints Deane Jessep to drive sovereign AI strategy
Avec appoints Alex Gray as new General Manager for NZ
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Avec expands into New Zealand, appointing Sam Collins as GM
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Westpac's former CISO joins CyberCX NZ as Executive Director for Strategy & Risk
Kordia poaches new GM from NZ gov spy agency
