1. AppMetrics® Benefits
“Maximize the availability of your applications built on the Microsoft platform”

2. Application Availability
Xtremesoft provides extensive monitoring tools to prevent outages, ensure service levels, and provide data that aids root-cause analysis on custom COM+ based applications.
Application
Web Services
Integration
Server
Application stack
Application
Server
DBMS
System SW
Networking

3. Solves Problems Like When
A mission critical COM+ application hangs?
Transactions take too long or don’t complete?
Identify specific software module that’s not working?
Diagnose & pinpoint the problem?
Understand trends of Application for capacity planning?

4. Fixes These Challenges
Opens the“Black Box” of COM+
Highlights why applications crash, predicts problems
Time consuming to diagnose the root-cause
Eliminates finger pointing meetings
Makes it easy to predict scalability of application
Eliminates downtime & lost revenue

5. Improve Visibility
Problem detection – be the first to know when performance starts to deteriorate
Problem diagnosis – identify which software module (component, method) is the culprit
Problem reporting – proactively manage Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Problem avoidance – drive the capacity planning process for business applications

6. AppMetrics Performs the following functions: Extracts metrics
Consolidates data
Alerts on thresholds
Monitors performance
Identifies trends
Diagnoses root cause
Delivers reporting for Service Level Agreements
Manages events
So we can:
Better understand operations
Take corrective action
Alert resources and rapidly respond
Anticipate future needs
Control the application
Audit and secure transactions
Archive histories

7. Architecture n –tier Application AppMetrics Manager Analysis
Web
Server
AppMetrics Manager
Mid Tier
Analysis
COM+
AppMetrics Display
n –tier Application
and Pager
Event Log
Enterprise Mgmt
Data Warehouse
Database
Acquisition
Analysis
Action
SQL Server
OLAP Services

8. Alert and Notify
Alerts let you know when your application is getting into trouble
Transactions or components take too long
Transactions abort
Application crashes
Memory usage
Too many threads in the application

9. Alert and Notify Event Log SMTP / Mail / Pager
SNMP / Enterprise Frameworks
Trigger automated process
Take corrective action

10. Monitor Performance Historical view of the application’s health
Feed the capacity planning process
Discover trends
Identify bottlenecks

11. Identify Trends Trending view of application’s health Discover trends
Plan for future growth

12. Diagnose Root Cause Drill down to troubling Component or Method
Complete
Complete
Complete
Start
Start
Drill down to troubling Component or Method

13. Deliver Reporting for SLAs
Reports
Summary
Top ten transactions
Top ten components
Application performance
CPU %
Memory
Page faults
Threads
Transaction statistics
Number active
Rate
Duration
DTC time
All transactions
Components

14. Benefits Monitor the performance of your Applications
Identify problems you may have today
Helps feed the Capacity Planning Process
Reporting for Service Level Agreements
Real-time alerting and monitoring
Provide business intelligence
Eliminate meetings and finger-pointing
Answer questions like
Why is this application slow?
Are there memory leaks?

15. Product is available from:
Xtremesoft, Inc. 800 West Cummings Park Woburn, MA USA