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Organizations / EventsComputer Measurement Group (CMG) Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media New York Web Performance Group and links to other Web Performance Groups ACM SIGMETRICS, the ACM
Special Interest Group (SIG) for the computer/communication system performance community IFIP WG 7.3 on Computer Performance Modeling and Analysis Capacity PlanningCMG conference proceedings from 1976 through 2008 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 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 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 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 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 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 ManagementApplication Performance Engineering Hub Application Performance, Scalability, and Architecture blog from Dynatrace The Performance Management section of The Virtualization Practice App Signal blog from AppDynamics Application Performance Matters Blog from OPNET Seriti Consulting Blog the Web Operations and Management Specialists, by Stephen Thair TuningIt 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. Wilson Mar's performance tuning notes mainly Windows and .NetJaqui Lynch's Publications including UNIX, AIX, Linux, and Apache performance tuning Performance monitoring and capacity planning by Randy Johnson and Harris Kern, mostly DBMS-related tuning PerformanceWiki performance / tuning tips
Windows
Linux/Unix
VMware Apache Web (aka IBM HTTP) Server
Microsoft IIS
WebLogic
WebSphere
MQ
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle
DB2
MySQL
Oracle Applications
Oracle EPM and BI
SAP Modeling ToolsEach vendor site provide many interesting documents about modeling, capacity planning, performance management, etc.BMC Capacity Management (former BEST/1, Patrol Perform &Predict) TeamQuest Metron Athene, "provides ITIL-compliant capacity management, automatic performance analysis and reporting for UNIX, Linux, Windows and Mainframe Servers." CA (former HyPerformix) Capacity Management solutions includes Optimizer (uses discrete event simulation modeling technology), Capacity Manager and Data Manager. Optimizer was integrated with LoadRunner. For some time Mercury promoted HyPerformix as Mercury Capacity Planning. 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. A Collection of Modelling and Simulation Resources on the Internet by Andrea Emilio Rizzoli Application Performance Management ToolsA 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.
Oracle Enterprise Manager manages Oracle and non-Oracle technologies within a single console. Oracle Application Diagnostics for Java. 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 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.
IBM Tivoli Service Availability and Performance Management, including products from acquired Cyanea and Candle
IBM Enterprise
Workload Manager
Resources. An IBM attempt to extend the mainframe technology to other platforms. 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 Antorcha Java Application Performance Management RTI delivers end-to-end performance diagnostics for JBoss and Apache Tomcat Netuitive Predictive Analytics for IT Geneos from ITSR Group,real-time performance monitoring and management solutions ExtraHop, a network-based application performance management (APM) solution Performance Management directory from KnowledgeStorm Enterprise Monitoring ToolsTools allowing monitoring of multiple servers including alerting and reporting. Basic monitoring (using operating systems tools and utilities) are considered in the Monitoring section.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 (also known as NTSMF) from Demand Technology, high-performance Windows performance monitor Lean 6 Sigma Capacity Management from ORSYP (acquired Sysload Software): real-time monitoring, analysis and iterative tuning Meta-View Performance Manager from Lund, Windows and different flavors of UNIX Performance and Availability Management from NetIQ PROGNOSIS from Integrated Research (IR), "real-time, systems management software for high-availability computing environments" Performance Management from ASG (acquired Landmark) MonitorIT from Goliath Technologies, "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 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 MonitoringOracle Enterprise Manager Real User Experience Insight (former Moniforce UXInsight) monitors real user activity, provide analysis and notifications 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. SeaView/RTM (Response Time Monitor) "passively captures network packets via a spanned port on the server switch. The software discovers and captures granular data describing all application sessions in real time. Built into the SeaView architecture is the ability to plug in application-specific modules that probe deeply into captured packets to measure the performance of actual business transactions." 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 Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) directory from KnowledgeStorm Performance-Related TechnologiesOracle Coherence "provides replicated and distributed (partitioned) data management and caching services" TIBCO Grid Computing virtualizes applications across a real-time infrastructure (former DataSynapse) ScaleOut Software, data and computing grids Terracotta Ehcache and BigMemory, snap-in performance and scale for enterprise Java applications Network Performance ManagementGuide 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) 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 NetQoS Network Performance Management Measure Network Performance with iperf and Measure Network Performance: iperf and ntop by Carla Schroder BooksClick on the book or its title to see book information and reviews (if available) on Amazon.com
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