For the first time, users can now understand how business critical applications such as Citrix®, Oracle®, MySQL®, Microsoft® SQL Server and HTTP are performing by getting insight into the individual application transactions to understand how poor performance is impacting the bottom line.
Visual Performance Manager 4.0 technology enables end-user response time assessment and quick root-cause analysis to reduce the time from initial alert to issue resolution.
Version 4.0 features a new application performance management technology with high performance hardware and a patented software analytics engine. This technology provides depth and breadth of application performance visibility from the data center to the end-user. (view the hardware data sheet)
Visual Performance Manager can assist with key aspects of managing application performance via:
- Intuitive User Interface
- In-depth visibility into client and server transactions
- Response time breakdown
- Problem domain isolation - application, server, network
- In-depth troubleshooting
Intuitive User Interface
- Monitor critical multi-tier application response time from the data center to the end user
- Analyze application, site, server, and client data
- View trend and response time breakdown analysis
- Rapidly drill down from response time anomalies to view the problem from multiple points of reference
Visual Performance Managers application performance dashboard allows you to quickly see the worst performing applications, servers and sites without a single mouse click. (click to view larger image)
In-depth visibility into client and server transactions
Visual Performance Manager now provides the ability to view individual interaction between client and server for any application. Key features:
- Complete response time analysis for streaming and non-streaming TCP and UDP applications.
- Monitor VoIP, video convergence and other multimedia applications that use UDP for transport
- Watch DNS & DHCP server performance and correlate to other applications that are dependant
- Aggregate statistics are kept for both TCP and UDP such as volume, data rate, data transfer time and application response time
- Performance statistics and transactions for custom TCP and UDP applications
Transaction forensics provide views into individual interaction between client and server for any application. (click to view larger image)
Response time breakdown
- Corroborate end-user performance complaints to quantify the business impact.
- Compare an individual end-user's experience to that of the other users at that site.
- Quickly determine if a problem is isolated to the user or is impacting many clients.
Transaction viewer provides visibility into requests and response detail, response time break down, TCP metrics, bites and packets. (click to view larger image)
Problem domain isolation - is it the application, server, network?
- Corroborate end-user performance complaints to quickly identify the problem domain.
- Use response time breakdown to determine whether the problem is caused by the application, server, or network.
Transaction trends, application data rate trends, slowest application by end user response time, slowest sites by end user response times. (click to view larger image)
In-depth troubleshooting
Back-in-time application performance troubleshooting. Get just the view of the data you need to solve a specific issue by using the flexible filters such as:
- Period of time
- Specific application
- User groups, sites, subnets and servers
- Transaction type
This allows you to cut the mean time to resolution dramatically over traditional troubleshooting approaches.
In depth troubleshooting visibility into all TCP and UDP applications. (click to view larger image)