AppLogic – Application Monitoring

Trying to monitor the operation of distributed applications has been an art in itself. To make operations as transparent as possible, AppLogic includes an integrated monitoring system that makes hundreds of counters available for building custom dashboards. You can use these dashboards to ease debugging, performance tuning, and monitoring of operations.

Each appliance in the AppLogic catalog includes dozens of counters that are available through the monitoring system. Available counters include generic counters like CPU usage, free memory, bytes transferred or volume space plus appliance specific counters for web servers and databases. Even network traffic counters are available.

To activate monitoring for your application, simply add the MON appliance from the AppLogic catalog to your application.  Connect the MON appliance to each of the appliances in your application that you want to monitor. When you start your application you'll then be able to access the monitoring system and build custom dashboards. Just click to add a new graph, select counters, and then select the size and colours for your graph. Then arrange your graphs to present a coordinated view of your application's operation.

Once you've designed your monitoring dashboards, in addition to being available within AppLogic they can be accessed securely via the Internet from any browser anywhere in the world. You can literally monitor your operations from the corner cafe.