{"id":6243,"date":"2018-01-17T09:10:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/?p=6243"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T12:59:05","slug":"white-paper-business-transaction-monitoring-not-the-be-all-and-end-all-of-apm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/white-paper-business-transaction-monitoring-not-the-be-all-and-end-all-of-apm\/","title":{"rendered":"White Paper: Application Transaction Tracing \u2013 <br>Not the Be-All and End-All of APM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6245 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/business-transaction-monitoring.jpg\" alt=\"Business Transaction Monitoring - eG Enterprise\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/business-transaction-monitoring.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/business-transaction-monitoring-140x84.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Business transaction monitoring is a critical component of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/what-is-application-performance-monitoring\/\/\">application performance monitoring<\/a> (APM). It helps application owners get visibility into how server-side processing of the application code happens as end-users interact with web applications. Using byte code instrumentation and tag-and-follow-techniques, APM tools trace transactions through the application architecture (application servers, databases, and extern service calls) and pinpoint the server-side tier causing slowness. Then, with code-level visibility, developers can easily identify the exact line of code affecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/\">application performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But, although transaction tracing is a must-have for an APM tool, is it sufficient for detecting <em>all types<\/em> of application performance slowdowns? Read the eG Innovations white paper, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/white-paper\/business-transaction-monitoring\">Business Transaction Monitoring: Not the Be-All and End-All of APM<\/a><\/em>, to understand how business transaction monitoring works, how far it goes, where it stops, and what level of correlated visibility of the server-side infrastructure and the application performance is needed by IT teams to effectively troubleshoot application performance slowdowns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/white-paper\/business-transaction-monitoring\"><strong>Read the white paper now \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business transaction monitoring is a critical component of application performance monitoring (APM). It helps application owners get visibility into how server-side processing of the application code happens as end-users interact with web applications. 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