#apm
grep -l "apm" /portfolio/* · 4 entriesThe APM agent that slowed down the app it was watching
After rolling out deeper instrumentation, one Java service got slower. The monitoring was the load.
1 min readFour monitoring tools and no single answer
Answering 'is the customer journey healthy?' meant opening four tools. Pulling them into one view changed how fast incidents got diagnosed.
1 min readNo service goes live without monitoring
New services kept reaching production with no APM, no synthetics and no alerts. A short onboarding checklist made monitoring part of launching.
1 min readSynthetic checks caught it before users reported it
A login flow broke overnight. Real-user monitoring was quiet because nobody was using it yet. A scripted check caught it hours before the morning.