Intercept Studio

Product Features

Real-time Monitoring

• Monitors ASP.NET, Web Services, .NET Remoting, COM+, COM Interop, WinForms, Console Applications, and Windows Service Applications
• Monitors 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the .NET Framework
• Concurrently monitor for application failures, security and connectivity issues, and performance degradations
• Monitor disconnected computers
• Monitor and measure service level delivery (SLAs)
• SLA monitoring for internal and external service providers
• Activity monitoring for business transactions
• Automatically discovers application dependencies on third-party and internal Web services, WCF services and database resources such as SQL, Oracle and DB2

Root Cause Information

• Collects the complete call stack and object state
• Gathers all function parameters and local and member variables
• Isolates the precise line of problem code
• Detects resource-specific bottlenecks (e.g. SQL, LDAP, TCP/IP)
• Incorporates events generated via instrumentation
• Collects and correlates system and framework performance counters
• Centralized PDB management for storing multiple versions of PDB files

Robust Security

• Permits multiple user groups to use a single viewer console
• Complete control and definition of user access to events
• Supports Windows and Custom authentication
• Does not compromise firewall security

Configuration and Customization

• Easily browse application assemblies and quickly identify namespaces, classes and methods for monitoring
• On-the-fly configuration of data collection thresholds and triggers
• Ability to consolidate and group events by cause or component
• Enables custom definition of critical exceptions for custom exception handlers

Non-intrusive

• Small footprint has no significant impact on performance
• Event throttling ensures minimal resource usage
• Requires no recompiling or instrumentation

Extensible Reporting and Dashboards

• Application monitoring dashboard for information on current application load, top application problems and problem analysis based on external and internal service providers
• Critical exception and performance hotspots
• Application availability and behavior trends, including volume and health indicators
• Highlight areas of an application that are improving or slowing
• Better insight into IT processes
• Leverage Microsoft SQL Reporting Services for additional customization

Standards-Based

• Adheres to ITIL standards
• Supports best practices for Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA compliance
• Ability to create Windows Event log or WMI events
• Integration with standard operations management and defect tracking systems
• Optional management pack for integration with MOM 2005 and System Center Operations Manager 2007
• Optional workflow connector for Visual Studio 2005 Team System
• Support for Visual Studio 2008