Solutions

for Developers

• 40% of development resources are spent on debugging and re-working application code.
• Nearly two-thirds of all software engineering work is maintenance, including bug fixing.

The need to effectively manage and support applications has created the need to effectively write and manage extensive instrumentation along with core business logic in an application. Furthermore, maintaining and enhancing software in response to newly discovered problems or requirements can take far more time than initial development. These time consuming tasks can detract focus from core business logic and introduce risk into any application development project.

Intercept Studio alleviates these burdens by providing an always-on monitoring solution that detects and diagnoses application faults when they occur, whether in development or production.

Real-time root cause diagnosis

Intercept Studio is a best-of-breed solution for monitoring applications and delivering, in real-time, a complete root cause analysis of any fault or performance degradation. That root cause analysis includes all the information needed to quickly isolate and resolve issues, including the exact blame component, a complete reproducible test case, associated member and local variables and parameters, and the precise line of offending source code. By eliminating the painstaking process of recreating errors and manually collecting application data, Intercept Studio provides a definitive diagnosis of application errors in order to improve the problem resolution process and enable developers to focus more on core business logic and less on problem solving for support teams.

Lifecycle Monitoring

In development environments, Intercept Studio introduces a new paradigm for testing applications. Instead of, or in addition to, prototyping load, Intercept Studio enables applications to be tested with actual usage. During integration and beta testing stages, the ability to collect precise root cause information resulting from actual usage leads to improved reliability and on-time delivery. And, because Intercept Studio is a low overhead solution, it is uniquely suited to monitor in an always-on state, even in production. Intercept Studio captures error information as it occurs and automatically delivers that information to support teams in order to facilitate communications and affect fast problem resolution.

Leveraging existing instrumentation investments

By monitoring and capturing the precise root cause of an application error throughout the application lifecycle, Intercept Studio reduces the need for instrumentation and saves countless hours traditionally spent on recreating the precise context of an error. In addition, Intercept Studio can integrate existing application instrumentation data into event transactions, helping organizations leverage existing instrumentation events and providing a single interface for analyzing application errors. Intercept Studio provides native support for Microsoft Logging Application Block, ASP.NET 2.0 Health Monitoring and Microsoft Exception Handling Application Block. Open APIs also allow custom instrumentation to be integrated.

Integration with Visual Studio 2005

Intercept Studio enables developers to identify the precise line of problem source code and to view that code directly in Visual Studio. In addition, with the TFS Incident Management Connector, Intercept Studio is capable of creating work items in Visual Studio 2005 Team System based on any alerts detected. By automating communication and workflow, development teams have insight into the behavior and health of .NET applications in production, better equipping them to quickly identify, isolate, and resolve application errors.