What is application management?
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What is application management?
Managing applications means measuring performance, identifying and resolving problems, and tuning and configuring the environment to ensure the application reaches target service levels. Applications are built using a multi-tier model with a web server, a middleware application server, and a database server. Effective application management requires end-to-end monitoring and remediation across the application environment and identification and resolution of issues regardless of where they appear in the technology stack.
Splunk's ability to log all operations, network, and application events can give the insight needed to not only measure and report SLAs but also to run a more effective business. Integrating the ability to ask any question of your environment and get immediate answers provides value for all aspects of application management from help desk operations to business intelligence functions.
Splunk can help with many typical application management tasks:
- Fault detection and root-cause analysis: Know when and where something attached to your environment is failing. Decipher what is happening to the applications, servers, and devices on your network. Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues quickly and from one place.
- Application monitoring: Proactively monitor your infrastructure and applications for conditions that affect availability or performance. Track response times for services from end to end.
- Application development and testing
- Business metrics reporting: Trend for an entire service, not just a single server or component.
- Integration with other tools: Integrate to existing and in-house tools where necessary.
- Consolidating information: Give your QA, operations, and customer support teams a centralized, consolidated view of all logs across your infrastructure. Control access to your data by setting up roles for managers and application teams that segregate data access along lines of duties. Make the data in your logs available to less technical staff who might not otherwise know what is relevant or where to look for it.
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.1 , 4.1.1 , 4.1.2 , 4.1.3 , 4.1.4 , 4.1.5 , 4.1.6 , 4.1.7 , 4.1.8 View the Article History for its revisions.