Transcript AppMetrics - Xtremesoft, Inc

AppMetrics
Overview
“Maximize the availability of your applications built
on the Microsoft platform”
Corporate Background
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Founded in 1998
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Strong relationship with Microsoft
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Market-leading products
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Headquartered near Boston,
Massachusetts USA
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Proven track record of
complex installations
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Premier, cross-industry customer base
Some of our Customers
What Our Customers are saying
“By using AppMetrics, the availability of the
application has increased by several
percentage points. Considering for every
one percentage point of additional
availability 1000 man-hours of down-time
are saved--this has resulted in millions of
dollars in improved efficiency throughout
our organization.”
Products
AppMetrics® for
Transactions
AppMetrics® for
BizTalk Server
Application Availability
Application stack
Xtremesoft provides extensive monitoring tools to prevent
outages, ensure service levels, and provide data for rootcause analysis on custom MTS, COM+ and BizTalk
Server-based applications.
Application
Web Services
Integration
Server
Application
Server
DBMS
System SW
Networking
What happens when…
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A mission critical com+ or BizTalk
application hangs?
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Transactions take too long or
don’t complete?
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Identify specific software module
that’s not working?
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Diagnose & pinpoint the problem?
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Understand trends of Application for
capacity planning?
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Customers are affected?
Common Challenges
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“Black Box” theory
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Applications crash, no way of
predicting problems
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Time consuming to diagnose
the root-cause
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Finger pointing meetings
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Difficult to predict scalability of
application
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Downtime & lost revenue
Improve Visibility
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Problem detection – be the first to know when performance
starts to deteriorate
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Problem diagnosis – identify which software module
(component, method) is the culprit
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Problem reporting – proactively manage service levels
agreements (SLAs)
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Problem avoidance – drive the capacity planning process for
business applications
What does
AppMetrics do?
AppMetrics
Performs the following
functions:
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Extracts metrics
Consolidates data
Alerts on thresholds
Monitors performance
Identifies trends
Diagnoses root cause
Delivers reporting for
service level agreements
Manages events
So you can:
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Better understand
operations
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Take corrective action
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Alert resources and rapidly
respond
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Anticipate future needs
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Control the application
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Audit and secure
transactions
Archive histories
New Terms
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AppMetrics Manager
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Dedicated machine that analyzes, alerts, reports on a set of
AppMetrics Agents
AppMetrics Agent
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Installed on each MTS/COM+ machine
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Listens to event sub-system and relays to manager
Monitoring the MTS/COM+
Based Middle-Tier
AppMetrics
Agent
AppMetrics
Agent
AppMetrics
Agent
AppMetrics
Agent
AppMetrics
Manager
AppMetrics
Console
SQL
Server
AppMetrics
Reports
Extract and Acquire
n –tier Application
Web
Server
AppMetrics Manager
Mid Tier
BizTalk
MTS
AppMetrics Display
W2K
Email and Pager
Analysis
NT
COM+
NT Event Log
Enterprise Mgmt
Data Warehouse
Acquisition
Database
Analysis
Action
SQL Server
OLAP Services
Consolidate and Analyze
n –tier Application
Web
Server
AppMetrics Manager
Mid Tier
BizTalk
MTS
AppMetrics Display
W2K
Email and Pager
Analysis
NT
COM+
NT Event Log
Enterprise Mgmt
Data Warehouse
Acquisition
Database
Analysis
Action
SQL Server
OLAP Services
Alert and Notify
n –tier Application
Web
Server
AppMetrics Manager
Mid Tier
BizTalk
MTS
AppMetrics Display
W2K
Email and Pager
Analysis
NT
COM+
NT Event Log
Enterprise Mgmt
Data Warehouse
Acquisition
Database
Analysis
Action
SQL Server
OLAP Services
Alert and Notify
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Alerts let you know when your application is getting into
trouble
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Transactions or components take too long
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Transactions abort
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Application crashes
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Memory usage
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Too many threads in the
application
Alert and Notify
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NT Event Log
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SMTP / Mail / Pager
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SNMP / Enterprise Frameworks
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Trigger automated process
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Take corrective action
Monitor Performance
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Historical view of the
application’s health
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Feed the capacity planning
process
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Discover trends
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Identify bottlenecks
Identify Trends
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Trending view of application’s health
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Discover trends
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Plan for future growth
Diagnose Root Cause
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Drill down to troubling
Component or Method
Complete
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Start
Start
Deliver Reporting for SLAs
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Reports
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Summary
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Application performance
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Number active
Rate
Duration
DTC time
All transactions
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CPU %
Memory
Page faults
Threads
Transaction statistics
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Top ten transactions
Top ten components
Number active
Rate
Components
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Number active
Rate
Duration
Benefits
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Monitor the performance of your Applications
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Identify problems you may have today
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Helps feed the Capacity Planning Process
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Reporting for Service Level Agreements
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Real-time alerting and monitoring
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Provide business intelligence
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Eliminate meetings and finger-pointing
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Answer questions like
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Why is this application slow?
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Are there memory leaks?
Contact us at:
Xtremesoft, Inc.
800 West Cummings Park
Woburn, MA 01801 USA
+1 (781) 937-3800
www.xtremesoft.com
[email protected]