We are pleased to announce the availability to Application Performance Monitor v2.0.  APM is a major upgrade to APM, which we released in February of this year. 

If you already own APM, then v2 is in your customer portal already.  If you don't own APM, now would be a good time to give it a try.

What's new in v2?

• AppBuilder Wizard - Monitoring applications and servers is a simple three step process with the AppBuilder Wizard. First, enter any server IP address to retrieve a list of available statistics to monitor. Next, select the statistics you want to monitor, or choose to apply an application monitor template for common applications such as Exchange or Active Directory.
• Community Content Library- Leverage the SolarWinds' online community, Thwack, to browse, download, and share application monitor templates and scripts created by other users directly from the Orion APM web interface.
• User-Experience Monitors - Includes out-of-the-box monitoring support for HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and other ODBC databases to enable you to measure application performance from an end-user's perspective. This Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement helps ensure your users will be satisfied with the performance of the applications they rely on.
• Open Source Script Processor - APM's Open Source Script Processor takes any Nagios script and converts it into a format that APM can schedule, run, and retrieve results. Leverage Nagios scripts available on Thwack, third-party script libraries, or create your own custom script to extend APM's monitoring coverage. With Nagios scripts, APM users can monitor virtually any service such as confirming the completion of daily backups.
• Universal WMI Performance Monitors - Orion APM makes it easy for you to remotely monitor any WMI performance counters to identify and resolve application issues before users are impacted. Adding WMI monitors is as simple as clicking on a server icon, browsing its list of available counters, and selecting the ones you would like to add.
• Performance Warning System - Orion APM will notify you of imminent or potential failures when pre-configured or user-defined performance thresholds are crossed. Four tiers of thresholds can be established (Good, Warning, Critical, and Down), helping you quickly assess the difference between, for example, a system that is up but performing poorly and a system that is about to fail.
• Windows and Linux Script Monitors- Leverage Windows, Linux or Unix scripts to monitor application health indicators that are not available through SNMP or WMI. Integrate the scripts into Orion APM to schedule their execution, report on them, and even receive alerts. Create and share your favorite scripts with other APM users on Thwack.