Application Response Measurement (ARM) is an open standard for monitoring and diagnosing performance bottlenecks within complex enterprise applications that use loosely-coupled designs or service-oriented architectures. Loosely coupled describes a resilient relationship between two or more computer systems that are exchanging data. ... There is no widely-agreed upon definition of Service-oriented architecture other than its literal translation that it is an architecture that relies on service-orientation as its fundamental design principle. ...

It includes an API for C and Java that allows timing information associated with each step in processing a transaction to be logged to a remote server for later analysis. As of 2006, version 4.0 is the latest version of the ARM standard. 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• http://www.opengroup.org/tech/management/arm/ Open Group official ARM Web-Site and open source SDK
• arm4.org ARM4-oriented Web-Site
• Open-ARM Open source ARM4 Java implementation
• MyARM Fully ARM4 compliant C and Java implementation