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Full Stack Express Performance Monitoring

Get end-to-end visibility into your Express performance with application monitoring tools. Gain insightful metrics on performance bottlenecks with Node.js monitoring to optimize your application.

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1. Install the Atatus Agent using npm or Yarn

npm install --save atatus-nodejs

2. Require the Atatus Agent and initialize it with your license key

var atatus = require("atatus-nodejs");

atatus.start({
     licenseKey:  "APM_LIC_KEY",
     appName:   "YOUR_APP_NAME"
});

3. Restart your Node.js server.

1. Install Atatus Node.js package.

npm install --save atatus-nodejs

2. Import "atatus-nodejs/start" in your Node.js app.

import atatus from  'atatus-nodejs/start'

3. Create "atatus-config.js" file in app home directory and initialize it with your license key

module.exports = {
     licenseKey:  "APM_LIC_KEY",
     appName:   "YOUR_APP_NAME"
);

4. Restart your Node.js server.

1. Go to your Node.js app directory and set your license key and app name to heroku config.

heroku config:set  ATATUS_APP_NAME="YOUR_APP_NAME"
heroku config:set  ATATUS_LICENSE_KEY="APM_LIC_KEY"

2. Install the Node.js agent and save it to your package.json.

npm install --save atatus-nodejs

3. Include Atatus to the first line of the main module of your application.

var atatus = require('atatus-nodejs');
atatus.start();

4. Run the following commands to commit the changes.

git add .
git commit -m  "Added Atatus Agent"
git push heroku master
heroku logs --tail

5. Restart your Node.js server.

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Optimize slow response times caused by Express errors

Automatically visualize end-to-end business transactions in your Express application. Monitor the amount and type of failed HTTP status codes and application crash with Express Monitoring. Analyze response time to identify Express performance issues and errors on each and every business transaction. Understand the impact of methods and database calls that affects your customer's experience.

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Optimize DB queriesOptimize DB queries

Find Performance Bottlenecks in your Express Application

Examine all SQL and NoSQL queries used by your Express server. Identify slow database queries and optimize query performance with database monitoring proactively. Monitor and measure third party API calls' response times and REST API failure rates along with HTTP status codes. Slice and dice performance metrics in real time—based on host, version, release stage, URL and other attributes.

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Exception RateFix issues

Quickly diagnose and fix Express exceptions

Every Express error is tracked using error tracking and captured with full stacktrace and exact line of source code is highlighted to make bug fixing easier. Get all the essential data such as class, message, URL, request agent, version etc to fix the Express exceptions and errors. Identify buggy API or third party services by investigating API failure rates and application crashes. Get alerts for application errors and exceptions via Email, Slack, PagerDuty, or using webhooks.

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Failure countHTTP Failures

Spot out and fix Express API failures

Quickly view the highest Express HTTP failures and get each request information along with custom data to identify the root cause of the failures. See the breakdown of the API failures based on HTTP Status Codes and the end-users having the highest impact.

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Slowest RequestSlowest Request Breakdown

Figure out where your Express app time is spent

Break down slow Express requests by time spent in code blocks, database queries, external services, templates, message queues and much more. View logs, infrastructure metrics, VM metrics in context with the original request.

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Boost Framework Performance

Boost Framework Performance

Monitor NestJS, Restify, Hapi and more. Gain insights into your Express performance, enhancing transaction flow and speeding up error resolution.

Trace Every Request Instantly

Trace Every Request Instantly

Visualize end-to-end traces across your stack, ensuring that you catch every Express error, performance issue, or bottleneck before it affects users.

Identify Slow Queries Instantly

Identify Slow Queries Instantly

Pinpoint and resolve slow database queries and eliminate performance bottlenecks impacting your Express application's responsiveness, leading to faster response times

Stay Alert to Vulnerabilities

Stay Alert to Vulnerabilities

Get alerted to potential library vulnerabilities, preventing security risks before they affect your customers or compliance.

Simplify Logs, Troubleshoot Faster

Simplify Logs, Troubleshoot Faster

Centralize all your Express logs in one place, and quickly identify the root cause of issues using advanced filtering, pattern detection, and log pipelines.

Custom Metrics That Matter

Custom Metrics That Matter

Set up and track custom metrics that align with your app's KPIs to ensure you're monitoring exactly what matters most for your success.

Quick Request Analysis Anytime

Quick Request Analysis Anytime

Explore request-level analysis, including stdout APM logs, to understand execution times, bottlenecks, and areas that need optimization.

Align APM with Server Metrics

Align APM with Server Metrics

Correlate your app’s Express APM metrics with server health to get a complete picture of your application’s performance and infrastructure dependencies.

Actionable Alerts

Actionable Alerts

Receive real-time alerts for Express app performance degradations and critical issues. Take immediate action to prevent downtime and optimize user experiences.

FAQ on Express Application Performance Monitoring

What is Express performance monitoring?

The Express performance monitoring tool helps developers to optimize the Express server performance.

A good Express APM solution answers the following two questions:

  1. Is an application broken or slow?
  2. What is issue that's causing the application broken or slow?

You can easily use application performance monitoring tools to answer, detect and resolve the above issues before they could impact the end users.

How to monitor a Express app?

In general, there are two types of monitoring:

  1. Black-box monitoring - It allows you can monitor the external behaviour of your system such as CPU usage, disk usage, memory usage, load averages etc..
  2. White-box monitoring - It allows you to keep an eye on the applications running on your server. It requires an agent to enable white-box monitoring.
Why do we need an Express performance monitoring tool?

Every organization should have a well-implemented Express APM solution, which allows DevOps teams (and the organization as a whole) to resolve issues and performance bottlenecks efficiently and reduce Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR). This has a substantial impact on the bottom line of the business.

Now organizations do not have to deal with the unnecessary work involved in maintaining an extensive software analysis group.

How to choose the right application performance monitoring tool?

Your Express performance monitoring tools should be easy to use, offer actionable insights, and be able to:

  1. Manage applications in the language(s) your apps use
  2. Track performance at the code level
  3. Keep an eye on end-user experiences
  4. Make use of artificial intelligence
  5. The ability to monitor the entire infrastructure
  6. Provides information that connects app performance metrics to business outcomes.

Check out this blog to know more information - Things You Should Know Before Choosing Application Performance Monitoring Tools.

What are the benefits of Express APM?

Technical Benefits:

  1. Increase application uptime and reduces downtime
  2. Code level diagnostics
  3. Avoid network outages
  4. Reduces MTTR
  5. Server metrics
  6. Alerts and notification on error information

Business Benefits:

  1. Higher conversion rate
  2. Improves SEO
  3. Better end-user experience
  4. Improves productivity
  5. Reduced operational costs
How to manage database performance issues in a Express application?

With the help of the database monitoring, you can easily identify the database performance bottlenecks.

  1. Understand who's using your databases.
  2. Track key performance metrics for DB performance tuning.
  3. Detect the slow and most-time consuming SQL queries to optimize it.
  4. Alerts on availability and performance issues.

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