Intercept Studio

What's New in Intercept Studio 5.0?

Intercept Studio is the most complete .NET application monitoring solution available. Intercept Studio delivers unsurpassed insight into the health and behavior of applications throughout the application lifecycle, providing real-time alerts and complete root cause diagnosis for any problems that occur. Intercept Studio is receiving accolades worldwide for its usability and fast ROI. Some of the newest features from which organizations are benefiting include:

For Operations

• Incremental Application Dependency Discovery
  Managing and supporting applications can be difficult without clear information regarding application topology and infrastructure, yet this information is not always readily available to IT operations and support personnel. Intercept Studio 5 offers the ability to automatically discover application infrastructure and 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.
   
• SLA (Service Level Agreement) Monitoring for External and Internal Service Providers
  IT Operations teams are responsible for the management of distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications. These application rely on numerous external service providers who are delivering web service end points and internal application components. Understanding how total application SLA performance relates to individual SLA or OLA (Operational Level Agreement) for internal and external services providers is critical. Intercept Studio 5 provides automatic attribution of problems to individual service provider, tracking SLA metrics for connectivity, security, application failures and performance violations. Intercept Studio enables visibility into the critical path between application and service provider SLA violations.
   
• Activity Monitoring for Business Transactions
  Intercept Studio 5.0 takes application monitoring to the next level by providing the infrastructure required for business activity monitoring. By exposing metrics on the level of utilizations and response time for identified activities, Intercept Studio 5 allows for the tracking of individual SLAs for critical business activities.
   
• Application Monitoring Dashboard
  Intercept 5.0 introduces a new application centric dashboard that provides a central point of visibility into application health analysis. It provides metrics regarding current application load, information on top application problems, and a breakdown analysis of problems based on external and internal service providers.
   

For Developers

• Centralized PDB management
  Resolving coding errors quickly requires fast identification of the precise line of code where the application fails. To enable rapid isolation of the problem line of code, Intercept Studio 5 introduces centralized PDB management. This feature allows organizations to map the application failure to the precise line of problem code after the failure occurs. This is accomplished via a centralized PDB storage management feature that supports storing multiple versions of PDB files and seamlessly integrates with the application deployment process.
   
• Assembly Browser
  Intercept 5.0 release provides developers with the ability to browse application assemblies and quickly identify namespaces, classes and methods for monitoring. The functionality greatly simplifies fine-tuning of the configuration for specific application monitoring requirements.
   

Expanded Platform Support

Intercept Studio 5 features extended platform support for

• Windows Vista

• Windows 2008 and IIS7

• .NET Framework 3.5

• Visual Studio 2008

• LINQ

• Windows Workflow Foundation

• Sybase

• MDAC

• Enhanced support for WCF

• Enhanced support for Enterprise Services (COM+)
  
  

Usability and application specific scenarios

• Guided experience for application monitoring configuration
  Intercept Studio 5.0 delivers a set of wizards to simplify the process of defining application monitoring settings.
• Web Page and Web Method Browser
  The web page and web method browser simplifies the fine tuning of performance thresholds on a page or web method level.
• Monitoring for HTTP modules
  For organizations running a significant portion of their code in an HTTP module, this feature provides added accuracy in assessing the call duration on application servers and the time spent on the network layer.
• Scalability and self-maintenance improvements
  Intercept Studio has been fine tuned for even better performance in large enterprise environments.