The Virtualization Practice

BlueStripe was formed to change the way companies manage applications. Our products provide the visibility and tools that enable our customers to understand how and why their business-critical applications behave as they do – whether the applications reside in a physical or virtual environment.

FactFinder Application Service Management Software

BlueStripe’s FactFinder is the only application service management software solution that monitors applications around the clock and measures true application service performance by measuring all real application service requests, hop-by-hop, across the entire application system.

Since applications span multiple technology silos, the only way to accurately manage application service levels is to measure each inter-process service request across all application components, including service requests that cross the technology silos.

FactFinder’s hop-by-hop visibility, automatic discovery, and dynamic application system maps finally make it possible for you to:

• Know what makes up business applications
• Know where all application service requests go
• Know where requests are spending time – and why

FactFinder gives you a new perspective on application performance in a matter of
minutes – requiring zero configuration, zero maintenance and zero coding on your part.

24/7 Application System Monitoring

FactFinder’s enterprise-wide application monitoring makes you aware of everything important to the application on a single dashboard. With 24/7 monitoring of thousands of servers across all platforms – physical, virtual, and cloud – and the ability to drill down into individual applications spanning to hundreds of servers, FactFinder helps you resolve issues before end users are impacted.

FactFinder’s App Center dashboard includes an unmatched number of visual monitoring tools that deliver an application-centric view of application performance and system resources, including:

• Application Response Time & Throughput Graphs with live data on each component
• Live views of the worst performing applications (both the slowest and busiest)
• All current Alert conditions shown in a highlighted Event & Alert Window

You can set thresholds on any application component, process, or inter-process connection. When performance or availability metrics cross a threshold, FactFinder can take several distinct actions:

• Send an alert via e-mail, SMS, the FactFinder Console, or even another management tool
• Execute a script to automate recovery, like re-booting a server

While thresholds are easy to set, FactFinder also includes several pre-set thresholds requiring no human configuration for alerting.

Application Problem Management

When applications slow down, FactFinder delivers everything you need to quickly resolve any issues. With visibility across the full application system into service request response times, FactFinder provides the details needed for you to quickly:

• Identify the slow component by following the service requests
• Isolate the problematic process by drilling into the component
• Prove the findings to the rest of the team

To isolate the cause of an application slow-down using FactFinder, you simply follow 2 easy steps:

1. Follow the service requests across the application to focus on the specific component where the slow-down is occurring
2. Drill down into the identified component to isolate the problematic process.

Not only can this be done with live data, but also with historical data by choosing a time range with a few clicks. All the performance data from the historical period will be pulled into the FactFinder Console.  In some cases, FactFinder leverages its Rewind™ flight recorder feature to retrieve performance data about components you weren’t actually monitoring.

After you isolate or resolve the issue, click a button to print a Triage Report to communicate findings to other team members with facts they will recognize and can act on.

Application Benchmarking & Forecasting

FactFinder makes it fast and easy for you to compare application performance or configuration data from before and after an application event – such as updated software installation, deployment of a new release, or inclusion in a virtualization project.

FactFinder Snapshots make benchmarking easy. With a single mouse click, you collect all the important metrics, the application shape, and the configuration aspects of a single application over a range of time or with live data.

At any time, you can quickly and easily create comparison reports that show the differences in an application across two time periods. Inputs to the Comparison Report include:

• Any Application Snapshot (as long as snapshots are the same application)
• An App Explorer Workbench view with live data
• An App Explorer Workbench view with historical data.

With FactFinder, it’s easy for you to quickly know how applications are performing compared to past performance.

FactFinder also helps you understand future performance and capacity needs with out-of-the-box performance reports and Load Curves, which accurately predict how the application and resources will handle increased user load.

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