Organizations / Events

Computer Measurement Group (CMG)

Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media

New York Web Performance Group and other Web Performance Meetup Groups

USENIX SREcon, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) conferences around the world

ACM SIGMETRICS, the ACM Special Interest Group (SIG) for the computer/communication system performance community

IFIP Technical Committee 7: System Modeling and Optimization

IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS)

AIOps Exchange forum

FinOps Foundation


Capacity Planning

CMG conference proceedings a unique collection of papers about capacity planning, performance engineering, and performance management

Dr. Neil Gunther's Site and Blog

Guerrilla Capacity Planning by Neil J. Gunther

ITSO (IT Service Optimization) Blog by TeamQuest

Capacity Management Blog by Syncsort/Metron, old Metron blog

Dr. Norton's publications include papers on Simalytic Modeling as well as a number of other modeling related topics

Cloud Capacity Blog by Robert Limbrey

Capacity Planning for Internet Services. Quick planning techniques for high growth rates by Adrian Cockcroft and Bill Walker

Open Source Capacity & Performance Management Tools for Windows & Unix Systems by Brian Johnson

System Management by Exception by Igor Trubin

Boris Zibitsker's blog on Predictive Analytics for IT

Capacitas's Blog

Mailbox Server Processor Capacity Planning from Microsoft

Using Transaction Cost Analysis for Site Capacity Planning from Microsoft

Capacity Model for Internet Transactions from Microsoft

Capacity Planning for Internet Service Networks by Geoff Huston

Capacity Planning: An Essential Tool for Managing Web Services by Virgílio A.F. Almeida and Daniel A. Menascé

Performorama by Tom Wilson, an e-book on computer system performance (in process)

How to Develop an Effective Capacity Planning Process By Rich Schiesser (from IT Systems Management)

IBM Sizing Guides

Capacity Planning Market Forrester review from the BMC site

Capacity Planning Directory

Quantitative System Performance, the classic text by Lazowska, Zahorjan, Graham, and Sevcik

Stochastic Petri Nets - An Introduction to the Theory book by Falko Bause and Pieter Kritzinger


Performance Management

Software Performance Engineering Body of Knowledge, by Walter Kuketz

Java Enterprise Performance, online book from the DynaTrace team

Application Performance Monitoring for Dummies by Quest

Thoughts on capacity planning and web operations, John Allspaw's blog

The Practical Performance Analyst, blog, resources, fundamentals

Application Performance, Scalability, and Architecture blog from Dynatrace

APM Digest

App Signal blog from AppDynamics

Datadog's blog

Catchpoint Blog

Monitis Blog

DevOpsGuys Blog, Web operations and management, by Stephen Thair

Web Performance Guru blog, from the world of web application performance management

Performance Management with Free and Bundled Tools by Adrian Cockcroft and Mario Jauvin


Reliability / Resiliance / SRE

Awesome SRE, a curated list of SRE resources

Awesome Chaos Engineering, a curated list of chaos engineering resources

Site Reliability Engineering from New Relic

Gremlin blog


Tuning

It is often difficult to separate information how to design systems with good performance (architecture, performance patterns, language structures, etc.) from information how to tune and deploy systems, quite often both sides are considered. Although more tuning- and product - oriented links are placed here, a lot of related information can be found in the Performance section. See also Bottlenecks.

Wilson Mar's performance tuning notes mainly Windows and .Net
Jaqui Lynch's Publications including UNIX, AIX, Linux, and Apache performance tuning
Performance monitoring and capacity planning by Randy Johnson and Harris Kern, mostly DBMS-related tuning

Windows

Windows Performance developer resource page from Microsoft
Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012 R2 from Microsoft
Performance Tuning Guidelines for previous versions of Windows Server from Microsoft
Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtualization: (01) Scalability and Performance Microsoft video
Windows System Resource Manager
Ask the Performance Team Blog

Linux/Unix

Linux Performance Analysis and Tools by Brendan Gregg
Linux Performance and Tuning Guidelines, IBM Redpaper
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Performance Tuning Guide from Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Performance Tuning Guide from Red Hat
Linux TCP/IP Tuning for Scalability by Philip Tellis
Tuning IBM xSeries Servers for Performance IBM Redbook (Windows, Linux, NetWare, VMware)
SarCheck Linux & UNIX performance analysis and performance tuning tool
Solaris Internals and Performance FAQ
IBM Power Systems Performance Guide: Implementing and Optimizing IBM Redbook
AIX 5L Practical Performance Tools and Tuning Guide IBM Redbook
Database Performance Tuning on AIX IBM Redbook
Tuning Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Eserver xSeries Servers IBM Redbook
PowerVM Virtualization on IBM System p: Managing and Monitoring IBM Redbook
Planning and Sizing for Virtualization on System P by Jaqui Lynch

VMware

VMware Technical Resources a lot of performance-related technical papers
VMworld sessions and labs
Virtualizing Enterprise Java Applications - Performance
Performance Best Practices and Benchmarking Guidelines VMware Infrastructure 3 version 3.5 with ESX 3.5, ESXi 3.5, and VirtualCenter 2.5

Cloud

The Top 5 AWS EC2 Performance Problems, free eBook from Datadog

Apache Web (aka IBM HTTP, Oracle HTTP) Server

Apache 2.4 Performance Tuning
Apache Web Performance by Devon Hillard
Apache Server Performance Optimization by Martin Brown

Microsoft IIS

The Art and Science of Web Server Tuning with Internet Information Services 5.0
IIS 6.0 Performance Tuning

WebLogic

WebLogic 10.3 Server Performance and Tuning manual
WebLogic 9.2 Server Performance and Tuning manual
Workload Management in WebLogic Server 9.0 by Naresh Revanuru
Avoiding Unnecessary JSP Recompilation by Nagesh Susarla
Oracle JRockit JVM
Oracle JRockit Performance Tuning Guide Release R28
Marcus Hirt's Blog focused on JRockit and JRockit Mission Control

WebSphere

WebSphere Application Server Performance centralized IBM page
WebSphere Application Server V8 Concepts, Planning and Design Guide
WebSphere Application Server V7: Monitoring the Runtime
Recommended reading list: J2EE and WebSphere Application Server from IBM Software Services, includes Performance and Monitoring
Monitoring WebSphere Application Performance on z/OS

MQ

Performance: Getting the Most Out of WebSphere MQ

Microsoft SQL Server

SQL Server 2008 R2, Monitoring and Performance from Microsoft MSDN
SQL Server 2005, Database Engine Administrator InfoCenter from Microsoft MSDN
SQL Server 2000, Optimizing Database Performance Overview from Microsoft MSDN
SQL Server 2000, Monitoring Server Performance and Activity from Microsoft MSDN
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Tuning Tips for PeopleSoft Applications from Microsoft, a lot of usuful info for any applications
SQL Server Performance site about Microsoft SQL Server performance tuning and optimization
Analyzing and Optimizing Performance SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services, from Microsoft MSDN
NitroAccelerator, network acceleration for SQL Server

Oracle

Oracle Database Performance Tuning Guide 12c Release 1 (12.1) manual from Oracle
Oracle Database SQL Tuning Guide 12c Release 1 (12.1) manual from Oracle
Oracle Database Performance Tuning Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2) manual from Oracle
Oracle database performance problems and tuning by SearchOracle.com (free registration required)
Oracle Statspack Survival Guide
Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) in Oracle Database 10g
Karl Arao's TiddlyWiki
Learning Guide: Performance tuning by SearchOracle.com (free registration required)

DB2

DB2 10.1 Troubleshooting and Tuning Database Performance (pdf) from DB2 10.1 documentation
DB2 Version 9 Performance Guide (pdf) from DB2 9.8 documentation
DB2 8.2 Administration Guide: Performance (pdf) from DB2 8 documentation
DB2 Performance Expert for Multiplatforms V2 IBM Redbook
DB2 UDB Practical Performance Tuning by John Maenpaa
DB2PORTAL.com DB2 resources for the mainframe
Subsystem and Transaction Monitoring and Tuning with DB2 11 for z/OS IBM Redbook
DB2 10 for z/OS Performance Topics IBM Redbook
DB2 9 for z/OS Performance Topics IBM Redbook
DB2 UDB for z/OS: Design Guidelines for High Performance and Availability IBM Redbook
DB2 for z/OS: DB2 Universal Database concurrency by Fred Whitlark
A Deep Blue View of DB2 Performance: IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS IBM Redbook
Local vs Remote Database Access: A Performance Test IBM Redpaper

MySQL

MySQL Server Performance Tuning by Jeremy Zawodny (free Linux Magazine registration required)
MySQL Performance Blog from Percona
MySQL 5.1 Reference Manual

NoSQL

MongoDB white papers from MongoDB
Cassandra white papers from DataStax
Understanding the Top 5 Redis Performance Metrics, free eBook from Datadog

Oracle Applications

Oracle Documentation for all products
Oracle E-Business Suite Technology blog

Oracle EPM and BI

Oracle EPM and BI Documentation
Oracle EPM and BI White Papers, White Papers on OTN, Learning Library
OBI / EPM Product Assurance Engineering blog
Articles and Presentations from Rittman Mead Consulting

SAP

SAP Performance and Scalability Community
SAP R/3 Performance Monitoring & Tuning by Wilson Mar


Modeling Tools

Each vendor site provide many interesting documents about modeling, capacity planning, performance management, etc.

BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization (former BEST/1, Patrol Perform &Predict ?)

TeamQuest

Syncsort Elevate Capacity Management (former Metron Athene)

Broadcom CA AIOps, may include some traces of Hyperformix

PDQ, open source Performance Analyzer from Dr. Neil Gunther

Java Modelling Tools - a suite of applications developed by Politecnico di Milano and released under GPL license

OMNeT++, an extensible, modular, component-based C++ simulation library and framework, free for academic and non-profit use

MathWorks SimEvents, a discrete-event simulation engine and component library

Ptolemy II is a set of Java packages supporting heterogeneous, concurrent modeling and design from UC at Berkeley, free for academic and commercial use.

PRISM is a probabilistic model checker, a tool for formal modelling and analysis of systems that exhibit random or probabilistic behaviour.

Wikipedia list of discrete event simulation software


Application Performance Management Tools

Software for performance monitoring and diagnostics in production or under load. Basic monitoring (using operating systems tools and utilities) is considered in the Monitoring section.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring Suites, 2019

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring Suites, 2018

Critical Capabilities for Application Performance Monitoring, 2016 Gartner report

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics, 2018

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics, 2014

APMdigest, APM portal

MonitoringScape from BigPanda

the ITOA Landscape, IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) portal

Oracle Application Performance Management, a part of Oracle Enterprise Manager

AppDynamics (now part of Cisco) Application Performance Management (APM) solution, has free AppDynamics Lite edition

The New Relic Platform "Real-time analytics and full-stack visibility at cloud scale."

Micro Focus Application Performance Management (former HP)

Dynatrace Application Performance Management

Instana, application and services monitoring

Oracle Management Cloud

Compuware APM for Mainframe

CA Application Performance Management (including former Wily Introscope)

AppNeta Performance Manager, real-time application and network performance

Stackify Retrace

Elastic APM, open source

IDERA Precise Application Performance Platform (was also Symantec, Veritas) solutions to optimize the performance and availability of enterprise applications including J2EE, .NET, databases (DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server), and ERP/CRM (SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and Oracle Applications).

Quest Performance Monitoring for databases, virtualization, and storage

IBM Application Performance Management, including products from Tivoli, Cyanea, and Candle

Aternity, Digital Experience Management (former Riverbed)

BMC Application Performance Management

Macro 4 provides a range of application performance solutions for mainframe and distributed environments

Turbonomics, Application Resource Management

Knoa Business-Driven User Experience Management

Geneos from ITSR Group,real-time performance monitoring and management solutions

ExtraHop, a network-based application performance management (APM) solution

ScienceLogic, AIOps and Monitoring

Tingyun application performance management


Enterprise Monitoring Tools

Tools allowing monitoring of multiple servers including alerting and reporting. Basic monitoring (using operating systems tools and utilities) are considered in the Monitoring section.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Enterprise Monitoring

ASG-TMON, cross-platform from Windows to z/OS (acquired Landmark, PERFMAN)

Performance Sentry and NTSMF from Demand Technology, high-performance Windows performance monitor

Datadog, a monitoring service for IT, Operations and Development teams

Circonus, DevOps and IT Operations Analytics and Monitoring

SolarWind Librato, Real-Time Cloud Monitoring

SignalFX, (a Splunk company) "The Only Cloud Monitoring Solution Built on a Streaming Architecture"

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management (former CA)

Prometheus, open source monitoring system & time series database

Thanos, open source, highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities.

InfluxData TICK Stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Kapacitor), open source time series platform

TimescaleDB, open-source time-series database with SQL

Grafana, open platform for analytics and monitoring

Chronosphere, monitoring platform built on M3

VictoriaMetrics, designed to collect, store, and observe metrics

Sysdig, unified cloud-native visibility and security platform

Micro Focus NetIQ AppManager, Application and Systems Monitoring

Goliath Technologies products, Proactive IT Operations Software

Heroix Longitude, performance monitoring and network monitoring

eG Enterprise end-to-end digital performance analytics platform

SolarWinds, including Application Performance Monitor and Network Performance Monitor

ManageEngine Applications Manager includes server monitoring, application server monitoring, database monitoring, web services monitoring, virtualization monitoring, cloud monitoring and an array of other application management capability

SightLine, unified monitoring

Galileo Performance Explorer, IT Capacity Management

BMC TrueSight (formerly Boundary)

IDERA Uptime Cloud Monitor (formerly CopperEgg), Precise

LogicMonitor, hosted monitoring of networks, servers, applications, storage, and cloud

ScienceLogic, AIOps engine

Monitis, Website performance monitoring platform

Rackspace Cloud Monitoring

Zenoss, Monitoring for Your Hybrid IT Environment

Kaseya Traverse, SaaS-based monitoring and management platform

Dotcom-Monitor, web and network monitoring

OpenTSDB, scalable time series database

Weaveworks Cortex, an open source timeseries database and monitoring system. Based on Prometheus, Cortex adds horizontal scaling and data retention.

Zabbix open source monitoring solution

Nagios, IT Infrastructure Monitoring, there is The Open Source monitoring solution

Icinga, open source enterprise monitoring

Sensu, Workflow automation for monitoring

Ganglia Monitoring System, a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems, a BSD-licensed open-source project

OpenNMS, an open source, enterprise grade network management application platform

Munin, an open source, networked resource monitoring tool

Cacti, an open source, complete network graphing solution

Graphite, scalable realtime graphing, used for server monitoring

StatsD, scalable realtime graphing, used for server monitoring

Quest Foglight

Pingdom, Website Performance Monitoring


Performance-Related Technologies

Splunk, unleashing the power of machine data

Sumo Logic, unified logs and metrics

Elastic Logstash, centralize, transform and stash data

Solarwind Loggly, log management

Apache Hadoop, open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing
Hadoop Wiki
Hadoop distributions and commercials support

Oracle Coherence "provides replicated and distributed (partitioned) data management and caching services"

TIBCO DataSynapse GridServer, "a service execution platform for dynamically scaling any application at any time"

ScaleOut Software, data and computing grids

Terracotta DB, Ehcache, and BigMemory

Kubernetes, Automated container deployment, scaling, and management

GridGain, In-Memory Computing Platform Built on Apache Ignite

Hazelcast, In-Memory Data Grid

Akamas, autonomous performance optimization

Concertio, self-tuning

Concertio, self-tuning

OtterTune, automated database config tuning


AIOps

Moogsoft AIOps platform

Broadcom AIOps (former CA)

OverOps, Continuous Reliability


Observability

Honeycomb

LightStep, Rapid Root Cause Analysis for Distributed System

Interana, the platform for analyzing massive time-series data sets

Looker, big data analitics

Scalyr, observability


Cloud Economics

CloudHealth by VMWare, cloud management and optimization

the Duckbill group, lowering AWS bills

Apptio, financial management for modern IT

Apptio Cloudability, cloud spending management

CloudCheckr, managing cloud infrastructure

Virtana, multi-cloud rightsizing and cost optimization


Network Performance Management

Guide to Network Performance Management and Network Performance Management from TechTarget (free registration required)

The End All of Network Performance Management by Bruce Boardman, six network performance management products tested (Argent Guardian 6.0a, Compuware Vantage 8, Concord eHealth Suite 5.0.2, NetScout nGenius Performance Manager 1.4, NetQoS SuperAgent 3.0, and ProactiveNet 4.1.2)

Slides for teaching a course on TCP Performance, instruction support material for M. Hassan and R. Jain book "High Performance TCP/IP Networking: Concepts, Issues, and Solutions"

John Sellens's System and Network Monitoring Page

Wireshark, network protocol analyzer

Riverbed, Network and Application Performance Platform

Bit-Twist Ethernet packet generator

Broadcom (CA) Network Performance Monitoring)

NETSCOUT, application and network performance management

Measure Network Performance with iperf and Measure Network Performance: iperf and ntop by Carla Schroder


Books

Click on the book to see book information and reviews (if available) on Amazon.com

Performance Analysis/Management/Modeling/Capacity Planning

The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling by R. K. Jain, 1991.
The Practical Performance Analyst by Neil Gunther, 2000.
Scaling for E-Business: Technologies, Models, Performance, and Capacity Planning by Daniel A. Menasce and Virgilio A.F. Almeida, 2000.
Measuring Computer Performance: A Practitioner's Guide by David J. Lilja, 2000.
Capacity Planning for Web Services: Metrics, Models, and Methods by Daniel A. Menasce and Virgilio A.F. Almeida, 2001.
Computer Systems Performance Evaluation and Prediction by Paul Fortier and Howard Michel, 2003.
Performance Assurance for IT Systems by Brian King, 2004.
Performance by Design: Computer Capacity Planning By Example by Daniel A. Menasce, et al, 2004.
Guerrilla Capacity Planning: A Tactical Approach to Planning for Highly Scalable Applications and Services by Neil J. Gunther, 2006.
Fundamentals of Performance Engineering; You can't spell firefighter without IT Perfect by Keith Smith and Bob Wescott, 2007.
The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources by John Allspaw, 2008.
Capacity Management (ITSM Library) by Adam Grummitt, 2009.
IT Systems Management by Rich Schiesser, 2010.
Analyzing Computer System Performance with Perl::PDQ by Neil J. Gunther, 2011.
ITIL Capacity Management, by Larry Klosterboer, 2011.
Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles: Queuing Models to the Rescue by Leonid Grinshpan, 2012.
Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action by Mor Harchol-Balter, 2013.
Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud by Brendan Gregg, 2013.
Every Computer Performance Book: How to Avoid and Solve Performance Problems on The Computers You Work With by Bob Wescott, 2013.
Foundations of Software and System Performance Engineering: Process, Performance Modeling, Requirements, Testing, Scalability, and Practice by André Bondi, 2014.
Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs: Squeeze the last bit of performance from your application by Denis Bakhvalov, 2020.

SRE

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, 2016
Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems, 2017
The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE, 2018
Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale, 2018

APM/Monitoring

Complete Web Monitoring: Watching Your Visitors, Performance, Communities, and Competitors by Alistair Croll and Sean Power, 2009.
The Definitive Guide to Application Performance Management by Greg Shields, 2010.
APM Best Practices: Realizing Application Performance Management by Michael J. Sydor, 2010.
Effective Monitoring and Alerting: For Web Operations by Slawek Ligus, 2012.
Monitoring with Ganglia by Matt Massie, et al, 2012.
Application Performance Management: A Practical Introduction by Sampath I Prakash and John J Sikora, 2012.
Practical Monitoring: Effective Strategies for the Real World by Mike Julian, 2017.
Prometheus: Up & Running: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring by Brian Brazil, 2018.

Operating Systems

Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet by Adrian Cockcroft and Richard Pettit, 1998.
Linux Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning by Jason R Fink and Matthew D. Sherer, 2001.
Windows 2000 Performance Guide: Help for Administrators and Application Developers by Mark Friedman and Odysseas Pentakalos, 2002.
System Performance Tuning by Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and Mike Loukides, 2002.
HP-UX 11i Tuning and Performance by Robert F. Sauers, et al, 2004.
Linux Debugging and Performance Tuning: Tips and Techniques by Steve Best, 2005.
Optimizing Linux Performance: A Hands-On Guide to Linux Performance Tools by Phillip G. Ezolt, 2005
Performance Tuning for Linux Servers by Sandra K. Johnson, et al, 2005.
Solaris Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris by Richard McDougall, et al, 2006.
Driving the Power of AIX: Performance Tuning on IBM Power by Ken Milberg, 2009.
DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD by Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro, 2011.

Databases

SQL Performance Tuning by Peter Gulutzan and Trudy Pelzer, 2002.
SQL Tuning by Dan Tow, 2003.
PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance by Gregory Smith, 2010.
Effective MySQL Optimizing SQL Statements by Ronald Bradford, 2011.
High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication by Baron Schwartz, 2012.

Oracle Database

Optimizing Oracle Performance Paperback by Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt, 2003.
Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning by Richmond Shee, et al, 2004.
Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals by Jonathan Lewis, 2005.
Oracle Tuning: The Definitive Reference by Alexey B. Danchenkov, et al, 2006.
Troubleshooting Oracle Performance by Christian Antognini, 2008.
Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach by Sam Alapati, et al, 2011.
Forecasting Oracle Performance by Craig Shallahamer, 2011.
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques by Richard Niemiec, 2012.
Oracle SQL Tuning with Oracle SQLTXPLAIN by Stelios Charalambides, 2013

Microsoft SQL Server

The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook by Ken England, 2001.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook by Ken England and Gavin JT Powell, 2007.
Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization by Kalen Delaney, et al, 2007.
Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning by Steven Wort, et al, 2008.
SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled by Sajal Dam and Grant Fritchey, 2009.
Mastering SQL Server Profiler by Brad McGehee, 2009.
Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management Views (High Performance SQL Server) by Louis Davidson and Tim Ford, 2010.
Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer by Benjamin Nevarez, 2011.
SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning by Grant Fritchey, 2012.

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