Intercept Studio 5

Overview

AVIcode Intercept Studio

AVIcode Intercept Studio is the only .NET application monitoring solution designed to protect software investments throughout the application lifecycle. Whether used in development, QA, or production, Intercept Studio simplifies the detection, diagnosis, and resolution of application problems by automatically monitoring software for performance degradations, application failures, and security and connectivity issues. When errors are detected, Intercept Studio automatically collects and reports their root causes, in real-time, to the appropriate personnel.

"Always on" monitoring

Unlike many monitoring technologies that place heavy burdens on system resources, Intercept Studio is a low overhead solution that is uniquely suited for always on monitoring. In fact, Intercept Studio can be used throughout the application lifecycle – in development, QA, staging, and production – without incurring significant performance degradation. It is the only solution capable of detecting and diagnosing both performance and coding issues simultaneously in a production environment.

Intercept Studio captures events as they occur, and correlates those events with system and framework performance counters, providing a better understanding of how application problems and system performance relate. The ability to collect and correlate this information in an always on manner enables advanced root cause diagnostics and critical insight into system and process level information.

Root cause analysis

Rather than relying upon end users and interdepartmental efforts to identify and resolve application errors, Intercept Studio automatically identifies the precise cause of application errors and delivers actionable "root cause" information to the appropriate team for immediate diagnosis. This eliminates traditional finger pointing, reduces costs, and ensures rapid error resolution.

In addition, Intercept Studio 5 provides the ability to automatically discover application architecture and delivers information about all application dependencies on third party and internal Web services, WCF services and database resources such as SQL, Oracle and DB2. This information is crucial for efficient change control, release management and infrastructure dependency analysis.

This latest release also offers activity monitoring for business transactions by exposing metrics on the level of utilizations and response time for all identified activities. This means organizations can now efficiently and effectively track SLAs for critical business activities.

Customizable Reporting and Monitoring Dashboards

Intercept Studio's customizable trend reporting and analysis capabilities, along with flexible system and application health views, ensure the right application information is being delivered to the right resources at the right time. And, Intercept Studio 5 introduces a new application-centric dashboard that provides a single, central point of visibility into application health analysis. This dashboard delivers critical metrics regarding current application load, information on top priority problems and an analysis of current problems based on external and internal service providers.

Leverage existing instrumentation investments

Approximately 30% of application development time is spent on instrumentation – error handling and logging components. Despite the dedication of significant resources to instrumentation, it can be a tedious process to manually analyze error logs and identify application problem areas. Intercept Studio alleviates this difficulty by integrating with custom event/error logs – creating a single, unified format for viewing and correlating all application events.

Accelerate error resolution times

Analysts estimate that more than two-thirds of the total cost of an application, over the application's lifetime, is spent on maintenance and troubleshooting. The largest contributor to this expense is "error detection and resolution". Isolating, identifying, and resolving an application error typically requires the time and resources of multiple departments spanning Operations, Support, and Development.

Intercept Studio's "always on" application monitoring frees organizations from relying upon end users to report application errors. In addition, Support and Development departments no longer have to painstakingly recreate errors in an attempt to identify their underlying causes. Instead, Intercept Studio bypasses the manual error discovery process by automatically capturing errors and their root causes in real-time. This allows organizations to rapidly isolate and resolve errors –dramatically saving time and money.

Reduce risk throughout the application lifecycle

Intercept Studio's standardized platform for monitoring applications and collecting root-cause information allows organizations to achieve efficiencies and realize cost savings throughout the application lifecycle.

During design and development cycles, Intercept Studio facilitates on-time, on-budget application delivery by reducing schedule risks due to unplanned error resolution and instrumentation requirements.

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