Looking back, moving forward: Applications Manager in 2025
It was an incredible year of steady momentum for Applications Manager defined by innovation, trust, and support from our customers and partners. Over the past twelve months, we introduced features shaped directly by real-world monitoring challenges, earned industry recognitions that reaffirmed our direction, and saw customer satisfaction reflect the value of clarity and control in complex IT environments.
Let’s take one last look at the milestones we achieved in 2025.
Product highlights of 2025
Every feature we shipped in 2025 was shaped by what modern IT teams needed most: clearer visibility, faster diagnosis, and monitoring that kept pace with growing complexity. From deeper integrations to smarter insights, these releases focused on reducing tool sprawl and improving actionability.
20+ new AWS services
This year, we focused on eliminating console-switching for cloud administrators. By bringing over 20 new AWS services under Applications Manager, we’ve made it possible to monitor, correlate, and troubleshoot over 50 AWS services from a single screen.
We’ve categorized these new additions to help you find what fits your architecture:
Networking and connectivity
Managing traffic flow and security at scale is now easier with monitoring for:
Connectivity: Transit Gateway, Direct Connect VI, Site-to-Site VPN, and Client VPN.
Traffic Management: VPC Lattice, PrivateLink Endpoints, and Route 53 Resolvers.
Edge Security: Network Firewall and Elastic IP.
Security and encryption services
Maintain your security posture with deep visibility into:
Web protection: Web Application Firewall (WAF).
Secrets and keys: KMS, Secrets Manager, and CloudHSM.
Messaging and workflow orchestration
Ensure your distributed systems stay in sync by tracking:
Message brokers: Amazon ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ.
Workflows and notifications: Step Functions and Simple Email Service (SES).
Storage, database, and migration
Keep your data moving and accessible with support for:
Storage gateway: Comprehensive views for File Shares and Volumes.
Data warehousing and migration: Redshift and Database Migration Service (DMS) Replication Tasks.
Agent-based server monitoring
With the new agent-based server monitoring, Applications Manager delivers enhanced visibility into server performance, capturing deep, granular metrics and providing critical insights that help admin teams detect issues before they escalate and troubleshoot with better precision. Learn more.
Oracle Cloud Load Balancer monitoring
With newly introduced monitoring support for Oracle Cloud Load Balancer, cloud administrators are now able to keep an eye on their key OCI Load Balancer performance metrics like metrics like Data throughput, Connection counts, and Backend Sets health. Learn more.
IBM App Connect (Enterprise)
We introduced monitoring support for IBM App Connect for enterprise applications this year. This feature enables you to track integration performance, identify bottlenecks across flows, and maintain reliability in complex enterprise integration environments.
Custom integration with third-party tools
The custom integration support in Applications Manager enables seamless connectivity with third-party tools for incident management, event management (e.g., MoogSoft), and chat (e.g., Microsoft Teams), helping teams centralize observability data, correlate insights across platforms, and reduce monitoring silos in complex IT environments.
We also enhanced the tool and interface with several new features and settings to fit your IT monitoring needs. To keep things focused, we’ve highlighted only the spotlight features here. You can explore the full list of features in our release notes.
E-books for enterprise strategy
Having a functional monitoring tool doesn’t guarantee optimum IT performance. Thanks to the dynamic and complex nature of modern day IT infrastructure, your enterprise needs ample strategy and technique, too. To help, our team released two e-books this year.
The ultimate APM playbook: Master challenges and implement best practices
We compiled the common and critical challenges an IT admin faces while monitoring applications and IT infrastructure. This e-book guides you on the techniques to tackle them with ease and key strategies to eliminate performance anomalies right from the root. Over 400 IT administrators found it useful, so if you haven't checked it out, download the e-book here.
The SQL server maintenance checklist for busy admins
In this e-book, we curated practical checklists to help DBAs plan and execute weekly, monthly, and annual database maintenance tasks with confidence. We also compiled common pitfalls to watch out for, proven troubleshooting approaches, best practices, and expert insights on effective database monitoring. Click here to download the e-book.
Awards and recognitions
Did you hear? ManageEngine was positioned in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Experience Monitoring. While growing with the dynamic market requirements this year was a challenge, we kept a keen eye on customer feedback and focused on building a user-first feature catalog.
We were also recognized as a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer: Observability platforms. This recognition was special—nothing thrills us more than a satisfied administrator!
Finally, we were placed in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Observability Platforms 2025 as a Major Player. This vendor analysis provides an overview of the fitness of technology and suppliers in the market, and we're proud to be considered fit by IDC!
Events and workshops
Our team at Applications Manager is always enthusiastic to know what our customers think about monitoring and observability. We attended over 15 international IT conferences and summits this year, and we loved meeting everyone there.
Most of our focus was on cloud and DevOps events this year. As we engaged in one-to-one conversations with our customers and partners, we understood how requirements are moving from performance monitoring to actionable observability. We intend to deliver these capabilities in the upcoming year.
As we close out 2025, we want to thank our customers and partners for the trust, feedback, and collaboration that continue to shape Applications Manager. Every feature we delivered, milestone reached, and recognition earned this year was influenced by the support and feedback you brought.
We step into 2026 with a clear focus on delivering a tool that provides deeper visibility, smarter intelligence, and a seamless monitoring experience that scales with your environment. We look forward to continuing this journey together and helping you stay ahead of what’s next.