Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Mobile Application Monitoring

Monitoring of mobile applications has taken center-stage now, since the advent of mobile devices. Mobile applications have already changed the way people do business and as a result, monitoring technologies too need to keep pace with changing times.

Because mobile applications interactions are different from conventional personal computer ones, their performance monitoring and management too needs a different approach. However, most businesses and organizations still persist with conventional monitoring systems.

Mobile applications need monitoring for key performance data like throughput, region-wise performance data, response time, active users, etc.

Whether your server and API requests are performing optimally or whether there are issues at the domain level, your monitoring solutions should be able to dive down to the root cause of the application error.


Because mobile devices are region and carrier-dependent also, your monitoring tool should be able to identify problems by region as well. This narrows down the search field for the issue and you can then isolate the problem and take steps to rectify it. There are several other features that are necessary to application monitoring for mobile devices. For example, you may need specific information such as error by domain name itself; unless your tool provides this, you will probably not catch those errors until such a time as they crash the application. Mobile application monitoring may also need to take into consideration the device versions and the geographical or physical location and the carrier providing the mobile services.

Optimized Monitoring

Apart from pointing out errors, comprehensive application monitoring can help you make crucial decisions. The findings of the monitoring tool can help you determine what areas need strengthening, which mobile carriers to depend on, etc. such that your mobile applications perform optimally.

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