Monitor Java Applications Across Physical, Virtual, and Cloud Environments

Monitor Java Applications Across Physical, Virtual, and Cloud Environments

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SpringSource Hyperic is the leading platform for custom web application monitoring and performance management in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. By providing continuous visibility and control across all layers of application infrastructure, Hyperic alerts system administrators as soon as problems occur and provides the information to resolve them quickly. The result is reduced app downtime and improved performance.

  • Consistently Higher Service Levels
  • Hyperic lets you ensure that applications are meeting service level commitments through reduced downtime and improved performance. With Hyperic reports, you can demonstrate compliance with SLAs, operating level agreements (OLAs), and underpinning contracts (UCs) to their respective owners and IT management.
  • Early Detection and Resolution of Performance Issues
  • Hyperic continuously monitors your application infrastructure and responds as soon as a problem appears. Hyperic can resolve a broad range of issues without human intervention, and also implements notification workflows, routing alerts to the right specialists. Over 3,500 customers worldwide depend on Hyperic to reduce their mean time to resolution (MTTR) and increase mean time between failures (MTBF), often correcting problems before users even notice.
  • Complete Application Infrastructure Visibility
  • Hyperic provides over 50,000 performance metrics on over 75 technologies at every layer of your application infrastructure—from Java code to base OS or hypervisor and everything in between. This rich dataset gives every operations team member what they need to rapidly troubleshoot problems and proactively prevent new ones.
  • Minimal Monitoring Configuration Time
  • Each Hyperic agent takes about a minute to configure—simply specify the IP address of the Hyperic server collecting the agent data, and Hyperic’s Auto-Discovery takes care of the rest. This ease of configuration lets you monitor numerous servers with minimal effort. In fact, one customer monitors 1,500 servers with less than one FTE.
  • Measurement of Virtualization’s Impact on Performance
  • Hyperic lets you definitively assess whether virtualization slows down application performance, and if so, pinpoint where and why. You can then determine how to move from physical to virtual infrastructure with as little risk as possible.
  • Reduced Costs through Improved Utilization
  • Hyperic tells you which application components are overloaded and which underutilized, so you can add and remove elements accordingly. With Hyperic you can automatically spin up new server instances when usage spikes and shut them down when traffic wanes, optimizing utilization of your virtual infrastructure. The result is a lower overall IT spend. Thanks to Hyperic, one customer has been able to reduce hardware costs by 20%.

Feature Highlights

Hyperic’s application monitoring is comprehensive, simple to set up, and easy to customize. You gain complete insight into everything you need to know about your production applications—availability, performance, utilization, log events, and changes—whether they’re running on physical servers or dynamically changing virtual infrastructure.

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Automatically discover new resources as they appear in your datacenter. Once you start a new server, app, ESX instance, or virtual machine, Hyperic automatically adds it to inventory, configures monitoring parameters, and begins collecting performance metrics and events. With this level of automation, you can deploy fully monitored servers and virtual machines with minimal incremental effort, and rapidly scale out monitoring across your datacenter.

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Ensure timely attention to important issues with sophisticated multi-conditional and recovery alerts. Role-based alerts focus the right team members on critical problems. Follow-the-sun alerts coordinate internationally dispersed IT teams. Group-based alerting lets you monitor and respond on the basis of aggregate availability and performance—a clusters of app servers, or all servers used by a particular application—preventing the false alarms associated with monitoring servers individually.

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Hyperic’s run-book automation lets you reduce mean time to resolution (RTTR) and ensure SLA compliance. Define recovery actions for “hands-free” resolution of common problems. Set up automated scale-up and scale-down as user demand rises and falls over time. Restart servers; start, stop, and rollback virtual machines; and run scripts.

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Sophisticated analytics give you the insight you need to strategically improve IT operations. Analyze and understand service levels, utilization, chronically problematic resources, best practices compliance, and other aspects of your infrastructure. Built-in and custom reports let you quickly access and visualize critical data and easily share it with the rest of your team. You can automatically calculate baselines for any metric over any time period.

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Create your own plugins to monitor “outlier” technologies within your data center. Implement your own custom UI views to meet specific visualization requirements. Publish Hyperic data to manager-of-managers such as OpenView, Tivoli, Patrol, and Unicenter. Easily automate common tasks with Hyperic’s Groovy script console.

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Deploy Hyperic across your datacenter with full confidence: it’s the same toolset that monitors many of the web’s largest applications. One Hyperic server can gather metrics from as many as 1,500 agents that collectively report 1.5 million metrics a minute. Deploy multiple servers to collect even more metrics from more agents. Configure high availability to ensure that monitoring is always on.

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Gain deep visibility into all critical aspects of your web application environment: operating systems, virtual infrastructure, web servers, application servers, databases, data caches, messaging middleware, email servers, directory services, routers, and more. Hyperic ships with out-of-the-box support for over 75 web app. This broad coverage helps you simplify your toolset and quickly resolve problems wherever they occur in your infrastructure.

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