Jan
09
2026
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Software Performance Risk Management (SPRM) Is Not APM, RUM, Testing, or Observability — It Sits Above Them
Every new discipline faces the same initial reaction:
“Isn’t this just APM with a different name?”
“Isn’t this observability rebranded?”
“Don’t we already do this?”
Software Performance Risk Management (SPRM) exists precisely because those questions keep coming up — and because none of today’s tools answer them.
What today’s performance tools do well
Modern performance tooling is powerful.