The best application performance management software is ManageEngine. Although it is quite expensive – price starts at $795 – it is highly recommended by different organization because of the following features: It monitors application response times which helps you drill down to check the impact of SQL statements and other specific code segments, it detects slow transactions using the transaction tracing application, it monitors your database query executions, it tracks your background transactions, it measures the end-user satisfaction level using the Apdex scores, and it is easy to get started because it is designed to run on the company’s production servers.