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Application Performance Monitoring

In the emerging, interconnected world of disparate systems and web services, application performance degradations threaten core business systems and their users worldwide. With multiple points of potential failure and performance bottlenecks, organizations are addressing application reliability by deploying performance monitoring solutions. Many application performance monitoring solutions address common issues, including the detection of performance bottlenecks, but not all solutions are created equal.

AVIcode's Intercept Studio addresses the issue of application reliability in production environments by delivering a non-intrusive, small footprint, real-time application performance monitoring solution. Intercept Studio detects and reports on performance degradations and bottlenecks without affecting system performance or requiring any additional coding.

More powerful than a profiler

During the development phase, programmers use profilers to analyze and optimize application performance. This approach works fine for code controlled by that developer. Modern applications, however, are becoming more distributed and reliant upon third party services that can no longer be predicted or controlled during the development/production phase. This presents a need to monitor each production environment at the individual application level in order to quickly isolate performance bottlenecks related to web services requests, data base performance issues, middle tier component slowdowns, etc. Intercept Studio detects slow business transactions that span multiple servers and then visually represents the entire system in an interactive "Visio-like" presentation. This helps organizations quickly identify the precise system components needing optimization.

Supporting performance requirements and achieving standardization

Enterprise operations managers today are responsible for supporting and ensuring uninterrupted business process operations. Formerly, this meant only support for networks and standard services like mail, databases and network security. The increased importance of custom business applications, however, now requires operations to know more about application health state in order to achieve SLA (service level agreement) commitments. Without Intercept Studio, this requires each developer to educate administrators about application-specific methods for monitoring. Each application may write information into Windows logs or text files, as WMI events, etc. Software support costs reactively increase with the number of supported applications due to these custom and disparate monitoring requirements. Intercept Studio resolves this expensive operations requirement by declaratively establishing enterprise-wide standards for application monitoring without relying on particular development coding standards.

Intercept Studio provides:

• Run-time performance monitoring 
• Real-time call stack reporting 
• Resource specific information like execution times for embedded SQL queries, LDAP queries, web services requests, and TCP/IP services 
• Graphical event chains that highlight performance bottlenecks

To test drive Intercept Studio now and begin monitoring your custom .NET applications and ensuring SLA compliance, click here.