What Is Application Performance Automation? The Definitive Guide
Blog post from Cast AI
Application Performance Automation (APA) is a pioneering software category that autonomously connects real-time application performance signals to infrastructure actions, aiming to streamline operations for platform engineers and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). Unlike Application Performance Monitoring (APM) which only observes and alerts, APA platforms, exemplified by Cast AI, autonomously act on performance data to rightsize resources, scale workloads predictively, consolidate nodes, and remediate anomalies while adhering to Service Level Objectives (SLOs). This automation reduces manual toil, enhances reliability, and achieves significant infrastructure cost reductions, as evidenced by Cast AI's platform trained on extensive data across major cloud providers. APA complements existing tools like APM and Kubernetes autoscaling by offering predictive, multi-cloud, and policy-driven solutions that operate beyond the capabilities of traditional monitoring and native Kubernetes tools.