Series B HR SaaS
- Challenge
- No distributed tracing; 4-hour MTTR on hiring API.
- Simplileap solution
- OpenTelemetry, Grafana SLOs, and error-budget alerts.
- Outcome
- MTTR 4h → 22 minutes.
// Scale
Application Performance Monitoring
You cannot improve what you cannot measure. Application Performance Monitoring gives you a real-time picture of your application health, latency percentiles, error rates, and user experience metrics, before users start complaining.
// Key benefits
What makes this service valuable
Distributed tracing
OpenTelemetry-based distributed tracing across your entire service architecture, understanding exactly where time is spent in multi-service request flows.
Real-user monitoring
RUM captures actual user performance data, page load times, Core Web Vitals, and geographic distribution, as opposed to synthetic lab measurements.
Custom metrics and dashboards
Business-level metrics (checkout completion rate, API error rate by endpoint) alongside infrastructure metrics in a unified monitoring dashboard.
// Details
Visibility into every layer of your stack
APM is the diagnostic tool that surfaces production issues before users notice them. We configure APM with appropriate instrumentation depth, not everything needs tracing, but business-critical paths should always be observable.
We set up APM alongside alert rules that notify on meaningful degradation, not every noisy metric, but the specific conditions that indicate a user-impacting problem.
// What this includes
- Datadog / New Relic / Sentry APM setup
- OpenTelemetry instrumentation
- Distributed trace configuration
- Real-user monitoring (RUM)
- Custom business metrics
- Alert rules and threshold configuration
- Dashboard creation
// Deliverables
What you receive
Every engagement produces clear, documented deliverables. Here is exactly what is included in our application performance monitoring service.
- 01APM tool setup and configuration
- 02Instrumentation for all critical services
- 03Distributed trace configuration
- 04Alert rules and escalation
- 05Monitoring dashboard
- 06Alert tuning documentation
// In practice
How application performance monitoring engagements run
APM rollouts start with OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation on Node, Java, or .NET services, exporting traces to Datadog, Grafana Tempo, or New Relic. SLOs on p95 latency and error rate drive alert thresholds — not static CPU alerts. Service maps reveal N+1 queries and cross-service bottlenecks before users report slowness.
// Stack & frameworks
Stack we use for this
Cloud
- AWS / GCP
- Auto-scaling
- Reserved instances
- Cost dashboards
DevOps
- GitHub Actions
- Terraform IaC
- Docker
- Blue-green deploys
Observability
- Datadog / Grafana
- Error tracking
- Uptime monitors
- Executive reporting
// Delivery
Simplileap execution framework
01
Architecture mapping
Dependencies, API contracts, compliance constraints, and performance budgets documented before sprint one.
02
Secure sprints
Two-week increments with GitHub access, demo recordings, and QA checkpoints, client visibility at every stage.
03
QA & handover
Automated tests on critical paths, security review, runbooks, and knowledge transfer to your team.
// Proof
Real deployments from Bangalore
Edtech platform
- Challenge
- GA4, Mixpanel, and warehouse reported conflicting activation metrics.
- Simplileap solution
- Event dictionary, RudderStack taxonomy, dbt models in Snowflake.
- Outcome
- Single KPI definition in QBR; experiment analysis 40% faster.
// Engagement models
How teams engage us
Currency
| Package | Ideal for | Investment | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Managed services AMC | Post-launch platforms | ₹25K – ₹1.5L / month |
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| DevOps transformation | Engineering teams | Project + retainer |
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| SLO-backed operations | Revenue-critical apps | Scoped within AMC range |
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// Company and service positioning
Company and Service positioning is reviewed for production delivery standards by Harsha Parthasarathy (Co-Founder, Strategy & Operations 24+ years IT veteran, IBM, Global Delivery, Program Management) and Keshav Sharma (Co-Founder, Engineering and Lead Architect, Full-stack engineering, product delivery and technical standards).
CIN
AAU-8582
Startup India
DIPP83124
Founded
November 2020
Office
Residency Rd, Bengaluru, India
// FAQ
Common questions about application performance monitoring
Which APM tool do you recommend?+
Datadog for large teams with complex multi-service architectures and budget for enterprise tooling. Sentry for cost-effective error tracking and basic performance monitoring for smaller teams. New Relic for teams that want deep application insights without Datadog pricing.
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