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BlueStripe Application Performance Management 2.0
Revolutionizing APM for Today's Complex Environments
Conventional Application Performance Management tools can no longer meet the needs of today's IT departments with dynamic data centers and increasingly complex applications. A new solution is needed – APM 2.0.
BlueStripe has delivered the first APM 2.0 solution that combines Transaction Performance Management, Application Discovery & Dependency Mapping, and Application Performance Management of the server platform capabilities to help you manage complete application systems. IT analysts are highlighting the needs of IT organizations to move beyond simple APM management of application code or VM capacity managment to look at the entire application system. BlueStripe's APM 2.0 solution gives that capability to IT Support teams by managing any network-connected application by following transactions across tiers, isolating problems by process component and drilling down to root cause.... regardless of platform or environment.
Manage EVERY Application
BlueStripe is the first company to deliver complete application performance management for all your applications, regardless of code and platform. This is a critical component of APM 2.0, the ability to cover all applications in any IT environment. With APM 2.0, the limitations of platform-specific tools are gone, and business processes that encompass more than one application platform will no longer be invisible to the monitoring tools.
With the possibility of dozens, or even hundreds, of applications, manual setup is not logistically feasible in a real-world IT organization. That's why BlueStripe's Application Performance Management solution automates many of the key setup and configuration needs such as:
- Application Identification and Naming
- Transaction Path Mapping
- Real-time monitoring and tracing of Protocol Transactions
- Component Dependency Tracking
- Change Detection and Re-configuration
All of this is accomplished via BlueStripe's patented AppSmart Technology, which enables Application Performance Management without any of the headaches associated with other APM solutions:
- No Pre-mapping or manual configuration of the architecture
- No Application Instrumentation or coding
- No Network Appliance or port mirror hassles
Measure Application Transaction Performance
of every application with no user configuration
To accurately manage the performance of any given application, you must manage all the transactions that make up the application. You need to understand where the application transactions go and what resources they are dependent upon to deliver value to the business. By understanding what makes up the application, you can truly begin to manage the application, not just the components that make up the application.
Once the applications are identified in the infrastructure, BlueStripe maps all the connections and dependencies, using the transactions executed by each application. The map is built automatically and adjusts in real-time to reflect any application system changes. Now that the applications and transactions are identified and mapped, BlueStripe gathers performance metrics, so that exact performance measurements can be delivered around the clock.
- Web Page, HTTP, SQL, or any other symbolic protocol
- No error-prone correlation formulas or sampling algorithms
- No resource-intensive agents that sit in virtual machines
- No application logic instrumentation requiring updates for changes
Follow Transactions Everywhere They Go
Today's dynamic applications cross many technology borders, including multiple types of applications, multiple operating systems, virtual environments, Web Services, Cloud computing (including third-party services), and many more. APM 2.0 solutions recognize that these boundaries exist and smash through them by following application transactions across all technology and platform tiers.
- Node-to-node, process-to-process performance monitoring
- Visibility at the Physical / Virtual Crossover point
- Exact end-to-end performance data
- Visibility to application nodes in other organizations or companies
Conventional Management Tools Fall Short
From big Frameworks to End User and APM tools, conventional management tools alone can‘t manage today's complex, multi-tier applications.
FactFinder uses BlueStripe’s patent-pending AppSmart™ Technology to cross technology boundaries and measure service requests that other tools can’t see. FactFinder leverages AppSmart to perform the following functions critical in application performance management:
- Discover process level application components — with no coding
- Map all connections and interdependencies — with no configuration
- Measure service requests and key resources — with no setup
- Adjust to changes in real time — with no maintenance
BlueStripe has focused on solving a difficult challenge that has remained unsolved for decades. With AppSmart Technology and the FactFinder feature set, IT teams responsible for application service delivery metrics or supporting applications can now quickly identify all the application components and measure how those applications are truly performing - regardless of the platform or environment: physical, virtual, or cloud.
FactFinder leverages AppSmart Technology to deliver valuable features that help operations & support teams.
System Management Frameworks
Management frameworks monitor individual infrastructure resources, as well as platform-specific data through plug-ins. This sprawling software monitors individual resources and individual components, with no idea how resources impact application performance.
Since frameworks lack insight into application transactions that cross between nodes and silos, a visibility gap exists between the frameworks and the application systems.
APM 2.0 from BlueStripe fills the APM visibility gap by delivering transactional performance details measured across the entire application system, between nodes, hop-by-hop. It shows every component the application is dependent upon to deliver services for the business – regardless of the application, the platform, or the environment.
The Silo Tools
Silo tools help domain experts see detailed data about a particular technology, but lack visibility into other platforms, so silo tools cannot see or manage the entire application.
Silo tools are built for the platform specialist, requiring domain expertise to use the tool; and preventing operations teams from using silo tools on a regular basis.
End User Tools
End User Monitoring tools measure how end users might be seeing applications. Since all metrics are from the edge (outside), these tools lack the visibility to know what makes up applications, where transactions go, and where they spend their time.
Business Transaction Monitoring Tools
BTM tools monitor transactions to see when business services are having problems. However, these tools usually stop at the logical node having problems. You still have to solve the problem of why it is having problems.
Application Performance Management 2.0 Approach from BlueStripe: Redefining Application Performance Management
Application Performance Management 2.0 is a new approach for monitoring and managing application performance, solving problems, and avoiding future issues so that applications continue to perform properly across any infrastructure environment – from physical servers to virtual servers and cloud computing. APM 2.0 combines the Transaction Performance Management, Application Discovery & Dependency Mapping, and Application Performance Management capabilities to help manage complete application systems. BlueStripe delivers the only way to get a true picture of application performance by measuring the performance of each request, hop-by-hop, across the infrastructure.
BlueStripe's APM 2.0 solution breaks through the challenges of managing proprietary platforms with a unique solution that automatically identifies every application system, the components that make up each application, the relationships between those components, and transaction performance across the components.
The result is an application monitoring and management solution that Service Delivery managers, IT Operations, and Application Support can use to:
Monitor Important Production Applications
- Identify distributed applications from your infrastructure
- Monitor production applications and transactions
- Alerting on key performance indicators of the whole application system
Isolate and Resolve Application Problems
- Track Transaction Performance hop-by-hop
- Drill down through server stacks to process level & resource problems
- Document Triage results to facilitate problem remediation
Proactively Prevent Problems
- Benchmark and analyze production application systems
- Create golden master benchmark recordings
- Create Before and After reports with Snapshots and/or live data
- Rapidly isolate root cause issues before users & service are impacted
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