The Ultimate Guide to Application Performance Monitoring
A curated Irish edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Application Performance Monitoring (APM).
What to know about Application Performance Monitoring
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a crucial discipline in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, where the performance and reliability of software applications directly impact business outcomes. This collection of stories delves into various advancements, challenges, and innovations related to monitoring, managing, and enhancing the performance of applications across diverse industries and environments.
Readers can explore how emerging technologies such as AI and automation are being integrated into application monitoring platforms to provide deeper insights, accelerate issue resolution, and improve overall user experience. The stories also highlight practical implementations of APM in sectors like healthcare, insurance, and finance, demonstrating how real-world organizations are leveraging these tools to streamline processes, optimize workflows, and achieve digital transformation goals.
Whether you're interested in the latest trends, case studies, or strategic approaches to accelerating software delivery while ensuring operational excellence, these stories offer valuable perspectives. Discover how innovative APM solutions are addressing the complexities of hybrid cloud setups, multi-cloud observability, and security in modern application environments, making this a rich resource for IT professionals, developers, and decision-makers.
Irish Application Performance Monitoring News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Irish IT teams under stress amid staff shortages & AI
Irish IT workers face mounting stress as staffing shortages, legacy systems and AI demands push teams to breaking point, survey finds.
Storm Technology names Conor Flanagan as Practise Director
Storm Technology names Conor Flanagan to lead Dynamics 365 Business Central push as it expands finance, reporting and AI-focused services.
AI shifts client expectations as fees face pressure
Teamwork.com warns AI is fuelling fee pressure as clients push for faster, cheaper expert work and more projects brought in-house.
Ireland data & AI workers resist job moves, survey finds
Ireland's data and AI hiring market tightens as most professionals stay put, with firms planning bigger teams and stronger pay and development offers.
Why health IT projects fail at the data layer
Health IT programmes are stalling because hospitals and governments keep buying new systems without first fixing fragmented, poorly governed data.
Auxilion names Eleanor Dempsey Advisory Services Chief
Auxilion has promoted Eleanor Dempsey to lead its advisory services, expanding her remit as it targets growth in Ireland and the UK.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Application Performance Monitoring
Kong launches Agent Gateway for multi-agent AI traffic
Gigamon eyes AI-led surge in network observability
Thoughtworks: The inside line on AI software development from the company that created Agile
Rafay & Argentum AI strike software orchestration deal
iProov report warns of soaring iOS injection attacks
Featured News
Exclusive: Grafana Lab's Jen Villa on targeting the AI observability gap
Grafana Labs unveils new AI observability and CLI tools as enterprises grapple with monitoring and controlling production AI systems at GrafanaCON 2026.
Exclusive: How Adobe showcases its innovation engine
Adobe's Sneaks programme puts early-stage ideas on stage, with Principal Evangelist Eric Matisoff saying the live format can help concepts evolve into products.
UiPath Accelerates AI in Software Development and Testing
UiPath is pushing AI deeper into software testing, promising autonomous agents that transform quality assurance and developers' roles.
Grafana: Turning data chaos into developer efficiency and CFO savings
Grafana leans on AI-powered observability and Adaptive Telemetry to sharpen developer insight while slashing cloud bills by up to 50%.
Expert Columns
Why health IT projects fail at the data layer
Why AI-powered security needs network telemetry across the hybrid cloud
Construction claims are shaped before disputes begin
Atlassian scales AI search with OpenSearch on Kubernetes
How to navigate a career change into tech. As a woman. In your 40s
AI won't reduce construction disputes unless documentation improves
Women own the most underrated skill in tech: Translation
Building inclusively at scale: Empowering women in the data center boom
International Women's Day: Expanding access, accelerating progress
I didn't choose tech. Tech chose me
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent Application Performance Monitoring News
Equinix to invest USD $700 million in Dundalk plant
Equinix will invest up to USD $700 million in a new Dundalk plant with Hanley Energy, promising hundreds of skilled jobs and faster kit supply.
Tenable finds GitHub workflow flaw in Microsoft repo
Tenable flags GitHub workflow flaw in Microsoft's Windows-driver-samples repo that could let attackers run code and reach secrets.
Survey finds firms deploy AI agents before ready
Monte Carlo survey finds 64% of large-enterprise leaders and engineers pushed AI agents into use before readiness, exposing control gaps.
OpenObserve raises USD $10 million for Observability 3.0
OpenObserve wins USD $10 million backing to expand its Observability 3.0 platform, adding AI SRE and LLM monitoring for enterprise customers.
Intruder launches AI pentesting for faster validation
Intruder's new AI Pentesting tool aims to validate scanner findings in minutes, easing pressure on security teams facing faster-moving threats.
Panzura launches Nexus to connect CloudFS to Copilot
Panzura launches Nexus to link CloudFS file estates with Microsoft 365 Copilot, giving enterprises faster, permission-aware access to unstructured data.
Intruder launches AI pentesting to cut vulnerability triage
Intruder launches AI Pentesting to help security teams validate scanner findings faster as pressure mounts over shrinking exploit windows.
Rippling launches SOC 2 compliance tool for IT teams
Rippling rolls out automated SOC 2 compliance tool that uses existing HR and IT data to cut audit prep and ongoing evidence gathering.
CIP marks 10 years of Linux support for infrastructure
Civil Infrastructure Platform celebrates a decade of long-term Linux support, as industrial users face mounting compliance demands and security rules.
Nuclear Institute launches careers conference in Manchester
Nuclear Institute sets out careers and skills agenda as 500 professionals head to Manchester for first conference.
DevOps incidents jump 21% as downtime hits 9,255 hours
GitProtect says outages on major DevOps platforms jumped 21% in 2025, with longer disruptions hitting GitLab, Jira and GitHub hardest.
OpenAI launches Symphony for coding agent workflows
OpenAI unveils Symphony, an open-source spec that turns issue trackers into agent control planes and boosted landed pull requests by 500%.
GitLab deepens Anthropic Claude integration for governance
GitLab adds Anthropic's latest Claude models to Duo Agent Platform, giving enterprises cloud-based access with governance, compliance and audit controls.
API attacks surge as AI exposure raises cyber risk
Akamai survey finds APIs are now cybercriminals' main target, with AI-linked interfaces under attack and incidents costing organisations more than USD $700,000.
UiPath & Deloitte launch AI testing for enterprises
UiPath and Deloitte add AI-driven software testing to Ascend, aiming for broader coverage, faster releases and less manual maintenance.
MathWorks adds AI copilot tools to MATLAB & Simulink
MathWorks adds Simulink Copilot and Polyspace Copilot in R2026a, bringing generative AI tools to embedded design, code analysis and verification.
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UiPath links Databricks data & expands Deloitte tests
UiPath deepens Databricks and Deloitte ties to push governed AI workflows and automated testing across enterprise data operations.
AI investment could help construction firms retain staff
AI tools may help construction firms keep staff as a survey finds more than half of professionals would stay put if employers boosted investment.
Kyndryl expands Google Cloud service for AI workloads
Kyndryl broadens Google Cloud deal to help enterprises modernise applications and run AI workloads across regulated hybrid environments.
AI flaws & supply-chain risks top new pentesting report
Cobalt's annual pentesting study says AI and supplier tools are exposing fresh weaknesses, with security teams struggling to keep pace with rapid deployment.