Application Management Software

BlueStripe FactFinder™ is revolutionizing application management and how companies manage important production applications, combining the best features of application performance management (APM), such as transaction visibility, with the platform coverage of top systems management solutions. The result is the industry’s first true APM 2.0 solution.

Today's applications are made up of multiple technologies, from packaged apps to custom code, messaging middleware to security and directory services, and physical machines to virtual & cloud infrastructure.  An effective application management solution must see the entire application system, in real-time, incorporating changes as they occur, to measure performance metrics across the infrastructures.

FactFinder uses patented AppSmart™ Technology to automatically identify every component of an application, follow application transactions and measure performance across the entire infrastructure, no matter which environments the transaction goes across - physical, virtual, or cloud.

FactFinder gives you a new perspective on application performance in a matter of minutes – requiring zero configuration, zero maintenance and zero coding on your part.

• 24/7 Application System
  Monitoring

  24/7 Application System Monitoring

  

  FactFinder's App Center shows all applications
  and application components (click to enlarge)

  FactFinder’s enterprise-wide application monitoring makes you aware of everything important about application performance for all your applications on a single dashboard. With 24/7 monitoring of thousands of servers across all platforms - physical, virtual, and cloud - and the ability to drill down into individual applications spanning to hundreds of servers, FactFinder helps you resolve issues before end users are impacted. 

  FactFinder’s App Center dashboard includes an unmatched number of visual monitoring tools that deliver an application-centric view of application performance and system resources, including:

  • Roll-over application response time & throughput graphs
  • Real-time views of the slowest and busiest applications
  • Live alert conditions shown in a highlighted Event & Alert Window

  You can set thresholds on any application component, process, or inter-process connection. When performance or availability metrics cross a threshold, FactFinder can take several distinct actions:

  • Send an alert via e-mail, SMS, the FactFinder Console, or even another management tool
  • Execute a script to automate recovery, like re-booting a server

  While thresholds are easy to set, FactFinder also includes several pre-set thresholds requiring no human configuration for alerting.

  Watch FactFinder in Action and see what you’ve been missing in a matter of minutes.

• Application Problem
  Management

  Application Problem Management

  

  FactFinder App Explorer shows everything
  important about an App on a single screen

  When applications slow down, FactFinder delivers everything you need to quickly resolve any issues. With visibility across the full application system into service request response times, FactFinder provides the details needed for you to quickly:

  • Identify the slow component by following the service requests
  • Isolate the problematic process by drilling into the component
  • Prove the findings to the rest of the team

  To isolate the cause of an application slow-down using FactFinder, you simply follow 2 easy steps:

  1. Follow the service requests across the application to focus on the specific component where the slow-down is occurring
  2. Drill down into the identified component to isolate the problematic process.

  Not only can this be done with live data, but also with historical data by choosing a time range with a few clicks. All the performance data from the historical period will be pulled into the FactFinder Console.  In some cases, FactFinder leverages its Rewind™ flight recorder feature to retrieve performance data about components you weren’t actually monitoring.

  After you isolate or resolve the issue, click a button to print a Triage Report to communicate findings to other team members with facts they will recognize and can act on.

  Don’t risk another outage!  See how FactFinder Isolates problems in minutes.

• Application Benchmarking
  & Forecasting

  Application Benchmarking & Forecasting

  

  Forecast future application performance
  using FactFinder's unique Load Curves

  FactFinder makes it fast and easy for you to compare application performance or configuration data from before and after an application event – such as updated software installation, deployment of a new release, or inclusion in a virtualization project.

  Application benchmarking is easy with FactFinder Snapshots. With a click, you see all important metrics, application shapes, and configuration aspects of a single application over a range of time or with live data.

  At any time, you can quickly and easily create comparison reports that show the differences in an application across two time periods. Inputs to the Comparison Report include:

  • Any FactFinder Snapshot of the same application
  • Live data from an App Explorer Workbench tab
  • Historical data from an App Explorer Workbench tab

  With FactFinder, it’s easy for you to quickly know how applications are performing compared to past performance.

  FactFinder also helps you understand future performance and capacity needs with out-of-the-box performance reports and Load Curves, which accurately predict how the application and resources will handle increased user load.

  Stop guessing what your application will do next!  See how FactFinder gives you real knowledge.