Editions
AppMon supports the entire application lifecycle in a single, integrated platform supporting the three core areas of the lifecycle: development, test, and production. The AppMon platform comes in production or pre-production/TestCenter editions.
Each edition is packaged with specific features and default settings, such as out-of-the-box dashboards, integrations, zero-configuration, and auto-adapting instrumentation to accelerate time to value for developers, testers, and operations personnel respectively. The specific features and default settings available for each edition are determined by the type of license applied to the product.
Production edition
The AppMon Production edition enables advanced application performance management for rapidly identifying and diagnosing problems in staging and production, which reduces the mean time to repair by as much as 90%. Identifying and resolving production performance issues with mission-critical applications can take days and could cost thousands of dollars per hour.
With the Production edition, you can manage mission-critical application performance in a 24x7 environment, capture critical diagnostics information at all times, provide exact root-cause analysis, and resolve Java/.NET issues in minutes instead of days. The AppMon always-on PurePath transaction tracing makes this all possible by letting you manage business transactions end-to-end and map application dependencies to quickly understand issue priorities. Performance diagnostics down to the code level provides rapid diagnosis of the root cause of issues. You can share PurePath information with all stakeholders to quickly reach consensus on issues and resolutions.
Pre-Production edition
The AppMon Pre-Production edition integrates with major commercial and open-source load testing solutions such as LoadRunner, SilkPerformer, and Visual Studio Team System to eliminate manual problem reproduction and cut lost productivity time by as much as 90%. With this edition, developers and test professionals can eliminate the multiple days it often takes to find, document, reproduce, diagnose, and resolve performance issues.
Using PurePath transaction tracing, AppMon provides in-depth code-level visibility into the performance of each individual transaction of all virtual users in large load tests of highly distributed applications. With AppMon, developers and test professionals can now automate and accelerate the process of documenting, diagnosing, and resolving performance issues in Java/.NET applications, allowing more time to be spent on strategic development and test activities.
Detailed feature comparison
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| Feature (down) | Production | Pre-Production (Test Center) |
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| Transaction Tracing with PurePath Technology | |
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| Tracing of Each Transaction | |
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| Auto Sensors for Hotspot Detection with Zero Configuration | |
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| Tracing at Code Level and Capturing of Contextual Data | |
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| Tracing with Low Overhead and Small Memory Footprint | |
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| No Source-Code Changes Required (Java, .NET, JavaScript) | |
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| Tracing Across Web Applications | |
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| Tracing Across Java, .NET, and Native Applications | |
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| Tracing Across Multiple Tiers/Servers | |
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| Tracing Across Thread Boundaries | |
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| Auto-Discovery of Application Components | |
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| Support for Proprietary Remoting/Messaging Technologies | |
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| Custom Sensors and Knowledge Sensor Packs | |
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| Visual Class Browser and Sensor Placement | |
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| Diagnostics | Production | Pre-Production |
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| Real-time Diagnostics while Applications Run | |
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| Unicode Support | |
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| Manual Session Capturing | |
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| Offline Diagnostics and Session Export | |
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| Insight into Third-Party Libraries without Source Code | |
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| Continuous, 24x7 Session Capturing | |
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| Automated and Centralized Session Storage | |
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| Memory Snapshot Analysis (Hotspots, Collections, Maps, Http Sessions) | |
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| Auto-Triggered Memory and Thread Snapshots (on OOM or Scheduled) | |
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| Centralized, High-Speed Memory Snapshot Analysis | |
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| Thread Snapshot Analysis (Hotspots, Locking, Monitors) | |
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| Profiling of CPU and Synchronization Hotspots | |
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| UML Sequence Diagrams | |
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| Auto-Generated, Real-Time Transaction Flow Map | |
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| Automated Architecture Validation | |
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| Manual Diffing, Comparison, and Regression Analysis | |
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| CodeLink IDE Integration for Eclipse and Visual Studio | |
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| Monitoring | Production | Pre-Production |
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| Application Monitoring (JMX, PMI, Performance Counter, JVM, CLR) | |
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| System Monitoring (Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, z/OS) | |
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| Scheduled and Pluggable Synthetic End-User Monitors | |
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| Alerting/Notifications on Incidents | |
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| Percentiles for SLA Engineering Beyond Averages | |
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| Business Transaction Management | |
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| Long Term Performance Charts | |
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| 24x7 Monitoring of Live Applications and Systems | |
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| Enterprise Management System Integration and Automation | |
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| Self Monitoring Capabilities to Ensure 99.9% Uptime | |
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| Out-of-the-box Monitoring Dashboards and Reports | |
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| Load testing/Build integration and automation | Production | Pre-Production |
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| Open Automation Interfaces (REST, JMX) | |
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| Load Testing Integration (Loadrunner, JMeter, Gomez 360, VSTS) | |
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| Out-of-the-box Load Testing Dashboards and Reports | |
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| Build System Integration (Ant, NAnt, Quickbuild) | |
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| Include Custom Events and Build Metadata (Version) | |
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| Test Automation and Regression Reports (Selenium, Watir, QTP) | |
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| Test Framework Integration (JUnit, NUnit, TestNG) | |
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| Automated Regression Reports | |
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| Collaboration across the Lifecycle | Production | Pre-Production |
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| Web-enabled AppMon Client (Java Webstart) | |
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| Customizable Dashboards | |
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| Manually Triggered Reports (PDF, XLS, HTML, CSV) | |
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| Dashboard Sharing | |
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| Scheduled Reports and Delivery (Online, eMail) | |
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| Browser-access to Dashboards and Reports | |
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| Protection and Omission of Sensitive Data | |
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| Secure User Authentication | |
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| Flexible Role and Permission System | |
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| User Groups and LDAP integration | |
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| Deployment | Production | Pre-Production |
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| Central Agent Deployment and Configuration | |
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| Free {dt} Viewer | |
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| Cluster and Virtualization Support | |
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| Recovery and Watchdog (24x7 Support) | |
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| WAN Support with Encryption/Compression | |
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| Built-in Performance Warehouse | |
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| High-performance, External Performance Warehouse (SQL, DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL) | |
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| Schedule Downtimes for Maintanance Windows | |
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| Fault Tolerance (JVM Options, Network Overhead, Smart Sensors) | |
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| Community and Support | Production | Pre-Production |
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| Community Downloads (Fast Packs, Plugins) | |
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| Extensive Self-Learning Content on dynaLearn | |
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| Upgrade Path to New Product Versions | |
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| 24x7 Access to {dt} Support | |
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| Open Source Agent Development Kit | |
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