FactFinder Application and Transaction Monitoring Features

BlueStripe is the only automated solution that monitors the performance of transactions, the applications that run them, and the underlying infrastructure on which they depend. BlueStripe's unmatched visibility into application transaction systems enables IT Operations teams to manage the performance and availability of production business applications more easily and efficiently.

At the heart of BlueStripe's solution is FactFinder application management software, which provides key features and benefits to IT Operations organizations:

  • Automated discovery and mapping of Application & Transaction topology
  • Comprehensive Application and Transaction Performance Monitoring
  • Extremely fast and effective root cause determination
  • Easy benchmarking for better application deployments

With the ability to see and monitor any TCP/IP-connected application platform, FactFinder can monitor all transactions on any application in any environment — Physical, Virtual, and Cloud.

FEATURE BENEFIT

NEW  Transaction Service Level Dashboards

Real-time dashboard displaying service level status for all specific Transaction, sortable by status, all on one page. With just a click, users can drill into the triage workbench (Explorer)

 

  • Real-time service level status for transactions & applications
  • Automatic integration of dependency issues (yellow alerts)
  • Sortable by load, response time, or status for prioritization

NEW  Cross Machine Transaction Viewer

Visualizes transactions, hop by hop, from front to back, showing individual hop performance across each server and each application process.

 

  • System-by-system breakdown of transaction time
  • Fast determination of where slow transactions get hung up
  • One click drill-down into application and/or transaction systems

Real-Time Application and Transaction Monitoring

Monitor performance and availability of all applications and transactions across all technology tiers (or silos) and environments – physical, virtual, and cloud:

  • Individual Transaction Traces and Connections
  • Aggregate Transaction Performance
  • Applications
  • Servers, Middleware, Databases, etc. in Application System

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  • Measure Service Levels for Applications and Transactions
  • Response Times of all application / transaction connections across infrastructure
  • Automatic adjustments to infrastructure / application changes
  • Trace all slow and error-prone transactions

Availability, Performance, and Dependency Alerts

Proactively notify FactFinder users to availability and performance issues, whether they occur at the process, server, connection, transaction, or application level. Alert levels automatically roll up to Service Level Dashboards

 

  • Green: performance and availability meet requirements
  • Red: service level threshold(s) exceeded
  • Yellow: application dependency issue somewhere downstream, even though service levels are met

Dynamic Distributed Application System Maps in SCOM

Dynamic application system maps are loaded directly into Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (2007 R2), enabling Microsoft SCOM to manage applications – and extending SCOM management support beyond Microsoft systems.

 

  • Application system maps loaded into Microsoft SCOM
  • Integrated Server performance & config data on maps
  • Real-time updates to application maps when changes occur
  • Enablement of SCOM to see Linux, Solaris, AIX, and more

Web Page Performance Breakdown

Manage web transactions from the total transaction perspective. Monitors full web page performance served by the application system, including a timeline breakdown of individual requests that make up complete web pages.

 

  • Tracks web page experience & slow dependencies
  • Summary monitoring of pages across the entire website
  • Individual user tracing for Help Desk resolution

Application Management & Problem Resolution

Empower any single IT team member to quickly and easily solve application / transaction problems. FactFinder follows slow transactions across the application system right to the problem process. FactFinder then drills down from the transaction into the server stack to determine WHY a problem occurred.

 

  • Find the problem component for any problem in minutes
  • Reduce Problem Solving time by 90% or more
  • Detect system-level problems caused by other apps and tools
  • Publish triage reports to prove findings to broader team

Out-of-the-box Application Performance and Triage Reports

Quickly and easily publish findings of application performance and triage analysis with just a few clicks:

  • Application System Comparison Report
  • Triage & Performance Reports
  • Inventory / Configuration Report

 

  • Quickly publish consolidated application performance data
  • Confirm problem solving conclusions to whole team
  • Certify new app deployments and updates with golden master

Application Benchmarking & Forecasting

With SnapShot, FactFinder can capture standard application shape and behavior (response time) for comparison to future points in time (after a data center move or conversion to a virtual infrastructure)

Dynamic Load Curves predict future application performance for different potential load levels, based on current performance data.

 

  • Create a Golden Standard SnapShot (architecture and performance) in just a few clicks
  • Certify new applications after initial deployment
  • Compare live application to Golden Master (SnapShot) to confirm proper behavior and configuration
  • Plan for proper architecture deployment based on true application behavior

App Center Application Management Dashboard

Important application monitoring features, integrated on a single application management dashboard, displaying everything important about the application environment on a single screen:

  • Complete Application List
  • Application System Maps
  • Application Performance Graphs
  • Alert and Event List
  • Searchable Application Resource List

 

  • See all important application system info on a single screen
  • View real-time application architectures
  • Find application components that match a specific type
    (i.e., ”Oracle”)
  • Immediately know which apps have high load or bad application performance
  • Find application system dependencies on specific components with a click

 

FactFinder provides 24/7 application monitoring, best-of-breed application management, and quick, easy application benchmarking for any application – Physical, Virtual, or Cloud. Request a Trial now!