{"id":300,"date":"2022-01-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orienteed.com\/\/monitoring-comercio-electronico\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T23:35:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T22:35:03","slug":"monitoring-ecommerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orienteed.com\/en\/monitoring-comercio-electronico\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your ecommerce needs an Application Performance Monitoring System"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve come a long way in your ecommerce store: your website is up and ready, the SEO has been optimized and the huge marketing campaign you have invested so much effort and money has been launched. It will be a glorious sale season\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

...except no order is coming in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And obviously no one knows why: even the simplest ecommerce platform <\/a>is a huge ecosystem of integrated services and softwares that is at the same time so fragile that a single code error or a misdirected call can stop all the correct functioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why you need Application Performance Monitoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

APM is the practice of proactively monitoring the many facets of an application environment in order to identify and mitigate issues before they become major problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many softwares out there capable of managing the key metrics of your systems<\/a>, but they all work in similar manners: they use \u201cagents\u201d, lightweight software that inject a snippet of code in you system that allows it to track activity from both users and infrastructure. The agent then sends all this data to a dedicated platform that collects, normalises and visualizes all this activity in a way that can be easily understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monitoring systems can be quite extensive<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

They collect data from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n