I am told that all my application issues will go away when I move to COM+ and Windows 2000. I am wary of that claim but will I still need a tool like AppMetrics?
If your application has bugs on NT4, the bugs will still be there on W2K. The need for the diagnostic features of AppMetrics will not go away. People who get sick or hurt but don’t have medical coverage often wish they had. People who get regular medical checkups can detect problems before they become serious. This applies equally well to deployed business applications. Crash diagnostics is but one of the features of AppMetrics. Other features areas include: Health Monitoring The requirement to monitor the business-transactional health of applications in deployment is ongoing. Business transactions don’t slow down or outright fail solely due to coding errors!