Question

What is the difference between network monitoring and application performance monitoring? Why is it important to provide both?

Answer 1

Here is the difference:

• Network monitoring tools are systems that are focused toward on hardware which collect and accumulate assets such as switches and routers whereas application performance monitoring tools are centered on the software systems such as SQL and Exchange.
• The other difference between network monitoring and application performance monitoring is on the buyer or rather the end user. The network teams buy the network performance monitoring whereas the ops and app support buy the application monitoring tools. Each is these tools uses a language that is most suitable to the target buyer.

• The focus of network monitoring is basically on the network elements, the connectivity between the elements, and even performance status. On the other hand the focus of application monitoring performance is on the application level performance.

It is important to provide network monitoring and application performance monitoring

• This is because both network monitoring and application performance monitoring when provided produce desired results as they individually focus on two topics separately and they can co-exist in a system.