Originally Published on APMdigest In a word, “NEVER”. I’ve heard people say that they are super busy with production deployments and fast-moving projects. They haven’t had much time to think about a performance monitoring strategy for their new applications. But waiting until your applications are already in production is a mistake. However, it’s one that…
Recently, there has been increasing excitement about Docker, an open platform for the distributed and automated deployment of application services. Docker takes advantage of the powerful Linux “container” technology that has been around for a long time, but not widely used until now. The modular architecture and lightweight footprint of RTView makes it perfectly suited…
Many SL customers have successfully deployed stand-alone RTView products, such as TIBCO EMS or BW Monitor, Oracle Coherence Monitor, or the RTView CORE Development Tools. We are often asked what additional value does RTView Enterprise Monitor provide to complement these stand-alone products? We created a detailed white paper that describes five specific benefits in using…
I continue to be impressed by the success of TIBCO’s BusinessWorks (BW) integration platform in large-scale banking, e-commerce, logistics, and insurance applications. Enterprise developers combine BW with TIBCO Enterprise Messaging System (EMS) to create their largest and most important customer facing applications — also known as “big money apps”. BW’s continued momentum comes from its…
When my son was about 6 years old, he spent some time watching Home Shopping Network at his grandmother’s house. A little later he announced that, for his next birthday, he wanted a Burmese Ruby in a Marquise Cut. I hated to disappoint him, but he ended up with a big box of Legos instead.…
RTView provides industrial-strength real-time monitoring of many different technologies, especially the middleware, app servers, and data grids used to integrate large scale complex applications. While RTView offers many of the Application Performance Monitoring features (APM) defined by Gartner, most people are not aware of how much business value RTView provides as a solution far beyond…
Load-balanced, parallel, and complex … these words apply to the large-scale, distributed, mission-critical applications built on top of Oracle middleware components like WebLogic and Coherence. The resulting systems can be highly functional and scalable, but also very fragile. The probability of failure increases exponentially with complexity. Many large organizations are dependent on these applications for…
Advanced monitoring solutions must correlate the items that have dependencies and employ advanced visualization techniques to quickly perform analysis and take actions. The challenge with enterprise application monitoring platforms is that there are just too many differing points of information that must be looked at to capture the system as a whole. Without correlation, you…
How do you decide what makes a great product release? For me, there are two main drivers that bubble new features to the top of every release of RTView Enterprise Monitor: Provide access to more actionable data Facilitate ease of use While it is an obvious step to include crucial missing metrics, the trick is…
As an enterprise architect with 20+ years of experience, I have witnessed many seemingly simple deployment architectures that have come back to bite clients once they are scaled from POC to enterprise-wide deployments. Often, they are forced to live with the choices for many years so I’d like to share some best practices with you…