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Published October 30, 2020

Information Technology (IT) has always relied on monitoring to provide an understanding of how systems perform over time. The basics has always been to collect a series of metrics and to build an algorithm that shows how these metrics are related, and then to show when a system is either reaching the limits of its capacity or is likely to break.

Observability is to Monitoring what Tesla is to Horse Drawn Carriage
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Published October 18, 2018

BTM or Business Transaction Management vs. Business Transaction Performance - two terms aimed to describe the current state of the affairs in what Gartner calls Transaction Profiling.

 

Ever since I came across the term BTM I questioned whether the term actually reflects what vendors do in this space.

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