<p>For the latest release of its Foglight application performance management (APM) software, Dell has provided a new view that summarizes how transactions perform across a system.</p><p>"We're pulling together all the aspects of a user's interaction with an application," said John Newsom, Dell's executive director for application performance monitoring. "It is a different center of gravity on how to triage problems."</p><p>Traditionally, APM tools have provided performance metrics on individual system components, such as server processors, operating systems and hypervisors. The newly released Foglight APM 5.9 brings together application, infrastructure and database performance statistics in a single view, organized along the lines of a transaction.</p><p>A transaction can be any task that a user commissions a computer to execute, such as a search for a product on an e-commerce site. Foglight will detail how quickly each component -- from the user's browser to the back-end database -- responds. Administrators can define transactions for Foglight, and the software can automatically discover transaction flows on its own as well.</p><p><a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/3449345/dell-foglight-update-shines-on-transactions/">Keep reading...</a></p>