Organizations / Events

Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media

New York Web Performance Group and other Web Performance Meetup Groups

Capacity Planning

CMG conference proceedings from 1976 through 2009 a unique collection of papers about capacity planning, performance engineering, and performance management

Dr. Neil Gunther's Site and Blog

Guerrilla Capacity Planning by Neil J. Gunther

ITSO (IT Service Optimization) Blog by TeamQuest

Capacity and Performance Management Blog by Metron

Dr. Norton's publications include papers on Simalytic Modeling as well as a number of other modeling related topics

Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning Resources from Fortuitous

Adrian Cockcroft's Blog performance, modeling, and capacity planning

Cloud Capacity Blog by Robert Limbrey

Capacity Planning for Internet Services. Quick planning techniques for high growth rates by Adrian Cockcroft and Bill Walker

Open Source Capacity & Performance Management Tools for Windows & Unix Systems by Brian Johnson

System Management by Exception by Igor Trubin

Boris Zibitsker's blog on Predictive Analytics for IT

Capacitas's Blog

Mailbox Server Processor Capacity Planning from Microsoft

Using Transaction Cost Analysis for Site Capacity Planning from Microsoft

Capacity Model for Internet Transactions from Microsoft

A Capacity Planning Framework for Multi-tier Enterprise Services with Real Workloads

Capacity Planning for Internet Service Networks by Geoff Huston

Capacity Planning: An Essential Tool for Managing Web Services by Virgílio A.F. Almeida and Daniel A. Menascé

Performorama by Tom Wilson, an e-book on computer system performance (in process)

How to Develop an Effective Capacity Planning Process By Rich Schiesser (from IT Systems Management)

IBM Server and ERP Sizing Guides

Capacity Planning Market Forrester review from the BMC site

Capacity Planning Directory

Quantitative System Performance, the classic text by Lazowska, Zahorjan, Graham, and Sevcik

Stochastic Petri Nets - An Introduction to the Theory book by Falko Bause and Pieter Kritzinger

Performance Management

Java Enterprise Performance, online book from the DynaTrace team

Application Performance Monitoring for Dummies by Quest

Thoughts on capacity planning and web operations, John Allspaw's blog

O’Reilly Radar Web Operations Blog

The Practical Performance Analyst, blog, resources, fundamentals

Application Performance Engineering Hub

Application Performance, Scalability, and Architecture blog from Dynatrace / Compuware

The Performance Management section of The Virtualization Practice

APM Digest

Correlsense's blog

App Signal blog from AppDynamics

OpTier Blog

Catchpoint Blog

Application Performance Matters Blog from OPNET

Monitis Blog

Seriti Consulting Blog the Web Operations and Management Specialists, by Stephen Thair

Web Performance Guru blog, from the world of web application performance management

Tuning

It is often difficult to separate information how to design systems with good performance (architecture, performance patterns, language structures, etc.) from information how to tune and deploy systems, quite often both sides are considered. Although more tuning- and product - oriented links are placed here, a lot of related information can be found in the Performance section. See also Bottlenecks.

Windows

Linux/Unix

VMware

Apache Web (aka IBM HTTP, Oracle HTTP) Server

Microsoft IIS

WebLogic

WebSphere

MQ

Microsoft SQL Server

Oracle

DB2

MySQL

Oracle Applications

Oracle EPM and BI

SAP

Modeling Tools

BMC Capacity Management (former BEST/1, Patrol Perform &Predict)

Metron Athene, "provides ITIL-compliant capacity management, automatic performance analysis and reporting for UNIX, Linux, Windows and Mainframe Servers."

OPNET IT Guru Systems Planner

PDQ - open source from Dr. Neil Gunther

Java Modelling Tools - a suite of applications developed by Politecnico di Milano and released under GPL license

OMNeT++ is an extensible, modular, component-based C++ simulation library and framework, free for academic and non-profit use

Ptolemy II is a set of Java packages supporting heterogeneous, concurrent modeling and design from UC at Berkeley, free for academic and commercial use.

PRISM is a probabilistic model checker, a tool for formal modelling and analysis of systems that exhibit random or probabilistic behaviour.

A Collection of Modelling and Simulation Resources on the Internet by Andrea Emilio Rizzoli

Application Performance Management Tools

A new class of software for performance monitoring and diagnostics in production or under load. Basic monitoring (using operating systems tools and utilities) is considered in the Monitoring section.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring, 2010

Gartner Magic Quadrant for J2EE Application Server Management, 2005

TRAC Research market research and analyst firm that specializes in IT performance management

Oracle Enterprise Manager manages Oracle and non-Oracle technologies within a single console. Oracle Application Diagnostics for Java.
Oracle Composite Application Monitor and Modeler Production Monitoring & Diagnostics for J2EE (former ClearApp, Acsera)

HP Diagnostics (former Mercury) is integrated with Performance Center. Includes Mercury Diagnostics for J2EE (former LoadRunner Transaction Breakdown), .Net and ERP/CRM (Siebel, Oracle, and SAP NetWeaver) and Deep Diagnostics for J2EE (former Performant OptiBench).

Compuware Application Performance Management
including Gomez (former Vantage) for Java and .NET Performance
Compuware Strobe application performance management for z/OS applications

Wily Introscope gives the ability to quickly isolate and resolve performance issues in each stage of the application lifecycle. J2EE and .Net

Precise Software Application Performance Management (was also Symantec, Veritas) solutions to optimize the performance and availability of enterprise applications including J2EE, .NET, databases (DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server), and ERP/CRM (SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and Oracle Applications).

Quest Application Management (including former Sitraka products) optimizing performance and availability for J2EE, Oracle E-Business, PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel.
Quest White Papers

IBM Tivoli Service Availability and Performance Management, including products from acquired Cyanea and Candle
Large-Scale Implementation of IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager IBM Redpaper
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager V6.0 Family: Installation, Configuration, and Basic Usage IBM Redbook
IBM Enterprise Workload Manager V2.1 IBM Redbook
Hardening the EWLM Performance Data IBM Redpaper
Performance monitoring with Enterprise Workload Manager. Enable ARM instrumentation for end-to-end performance monitoring in IBM middleware on AIX and Linux by CheKim Chhuor

OPNET application performance solutions including Panorama (former Altaworks) "realtime application monitoring and analytics".

BMC Application Problem Resolution System (former Identify AppSight) is positioned a little differently: "patented Black Box technology monitors application execution and captures a synchronized record of user activity, configuration, and code execution in real time. Simply play back the Black Box log to quickly pinpoint the root cause of problems. That's any problem - performance, configuration, functional, or user errors - in Windows, .NET, and J2EE applications"

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management including BMC Performance Manager(former Patrol)

dynaTrace performance diagnostics of Java/J2EE and .NET Applications, promises a deep look into the inner workings of applications under load

Macro 4 provides a range of application performance solutions for mainframe and distributed environments

JXInsight enterprise Java performance monitoring, problem diagnostic, transaction analysis and application management solution

FactFinder Application Management Software from BlueStripe Software

AppDynamics Application Performance Management (APM) solution, has free AppDynamics Lite edition

New Relic RPM "A single tool that can monitor and manage all your web apps to the line of code", RPM Lite is free

Lucierna, J2EE, .NET and PHP business applications performance management

RTI delivers end-to-end performance diagnostics for JBoss and Apache Tomcat

Netuitive Predictive Analytics for IT

VMTurbo Intelligent Workload Management for Cloud and Virtualized Environments

Knoa Experience and Performance Manager

Geneos from ITSR Group,real-time performance monitoring and management solutions

ExtraHop, a network-based application performance management (APM) solution

AppFirst, full-Stack Visibility across systems, apps, and business metrics

AppNeta Application Performance Management

Enterprise Monitoring Tools

ASG PerfMan, cross-platform from Windows to z/OS

PerfCap Performance Management and Capacity Planning software, supported on IBM-AIX, HP-UX, SUN Solaris, Tru64 Unix, Linux, Windows NT/2000/XP and OpenVMS platforms

Performance Sentry and NTSMF from Demand Technology, high-performance Windows performance monitor

IT Capacity Planning Solution with Sysload from ORSYP (acquired Sysload Software): real-time performance monitoring and capacity management

Meta-View Performance Manager from Lund, Windows and different flavors of UNIX

NetIQ AppManager

Prognosis Products for Infrastructure, "real-time, systems management software for high-availability computing environments"

Performance Management from ASG (acquired Landmark)

Goliath Technologies products to "monitor the health of their infrastructure including physical and virtual servers, networks, desktops, applications and storage"

Heroix multiplatform, automated monitoring and management software

eG Innovations end-to-end monitoring solutions

Nimsoft (acquired Indicative) unified IT monitoring

SolarWinds Orion, including Application Performance Monitor and Network Performance Monitor

ManageEngine Applications Manager includes server monitoring, application server monitoring, database monitoring, web services monitoring, virtualization monitoring, cloud monitoring and an array of other application management capability

SightLine, one solution for cross-platform performance and capacity management

Galileo Performance Explorer, customizable views of infrustructure performance - on demand

Aternity end user experience management

Torbit Real User Measurement (RUM)

Boundary, Cloud Application Performance Monitoring

CopperEgg Cloud Monitoring

LogicMonitor, hosted monitoring of networks, servers, applications, storage, and cloud

Monitis Monitoring

Cloudclick, Rackspace Cloud Monitoring

Zenoss Unified Service Assurance for the Hybrid IT

Zyrion monitoring software

Zabbix open source monitoring solution

List of Free Performance Monitoring Tools from MFJ Associates

Nagios, IT Infrastructure Monitoring, there is The Open Source monitoring solution

Ganglia Monitoring System, a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems, a BSD-licensed open-source project

Graphite, scalable realtime graphing, used for server monitoring

Transaction Tracking / Business Activity Monitoring

Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Performance Management, Real User Experience Insight (former Moniforce UXInsight) and Business Transaction Management

Correlsense's SharePath "provides the unique ability to manage and monitor cross tier transactions at the transaction level, manage transaction Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and enable root cause performance analysis"

HP TransactionVision (former Bristol Technology) tracks customer transactions throughout their entire lifecycle. It provides Business Process Monitoring that increases visibility into your customer facing transactions.

SeaNet SeaView, latency measurement and transaction performance

TeaLeaf "provides real-time, browser-level visibility into every customer's online experience."

OpTier "delivers end-to-end visibility and control of all business transactions, across all tiers."

Quest User Experience Management

BMC End User Experience Management (former Coradiant)

Business Activity Monitoring with WebSphere Business Monitor V6.1 IBM Redbook

Performance-Related Technologies

Apache Hadoop, open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing
Hadoop Wiki
Hadoop distributions and commercials support

Oracle Coherence "provides replicated and distributed (partitioned) data management and caching services"

TIBCO DataSynapse GridServer, "a service execution platform for dynamically scaling any application at any time"

ScaleOut Software, data and computing grids

Terracotta Ehcache and BigMemory, snap-in performance and scale for enterprise Java applications

Network Performance Management

Guide to Network Performance Management and Network Performance Management from TechTarget (free registration required)

The End All of Network Performance Management by Bruce Boardman, six network performance management products tested (Argent Guardian 6.0a, Compuware Vantage 8, Concord eHealth Suite 5.0.2, NetScout nGenius Performance Manager 1.4, NetQoS SuperAgent 3.0, and ProactiveNet 4.1.2)

Network Performance Directory

List of Free Performance Monitoring Tools from MFJ Associates

Slides for teaching a course on TCP Performance, instruction support material for M. Hassan and R. Jain book "High Performance TCP/IP Networking: Concepts, Issues, and Solutions"

John Sellens's System and Network Monitoring Page

Wireshark network protocol analyzer

Bit-Twist Ethernet packet generator

CA Performance Management, proactive network performance managment (including former NetQoS, eHealth)

Measure Network Performance with iperf and Measure Network Performance: iperf and ntop by Carla Schroder

Books