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 | Production | Pre-Production |
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| Auto Sensors for Hotspot Detection with Zero Configuration | |
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| Auto-Discovery of Application Components | |
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| Custom Sensors and Knowledge Sensor Packs | |
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| No Source-Code Changes Required (Java, .NET, JavaScript) | |
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| Support for Proprietary Remoting/Messaging Technologies | |
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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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| Tracing Across Web Applications | |
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| Tracing at Code Level and Capturing of Contextual Data | |
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| Tracing of Each Transaction | |
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| Tracing with Low Overhead and Small Memory Footprint | |
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| Transaction Tracing with PurePath Technology | |
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| Visual Class Browser and Sensor Placement | |
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| Diagnostics | Production | Pre-Production |
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| Auto-Generated, Real-Time Transaction Flow Map | |
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| Automated and Centralized Session Storage | |
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| Automated Architecture Validation | |
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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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| CodeLink IDE Integration for Eclipse and Visual Studio | |
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| Continuous, 24x7 Session Capturing | |
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| Insight into Third-Party Libraries without Source Code | |
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| Manual Diffing, Comparison, and Regression Analysis | |
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| Manual Session Capturing | |
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| Memory Snapshot Analysis (Hotspots, Collections, Maps, Http Sessions) | |
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| Offline Diagnostics and Session Export | |
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| Profiling of CPU and Synchronization Hotspots | |
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| Real-time Diagnostics while Applications Run | |
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| Thread Snapshot Analysis (Hotspots, Locking, Monitors) | |
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| UML Sequence Diagrams | |
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| Unicode Support | |
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| Monitoring | Production | Pre-Production |
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| 24x7 Monitoring of Live Applications and Systems | |
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| Alerting/Notifications on Incidents | |
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| Application Monitoring (JMX, PMI, Performance Counter, JVM, CLR) | |
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| Business Transaction Management | |
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| Enterprise Management System Integration and Automation | |
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| Long Term Performance Charts | |
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| Out-of-the-box Monitoring Dashboards and Reports | |
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| Percentiles for SLA Engineering Beyond Averages | |
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| Scheduled and Pluggable Synthetic End-User Monitors | |
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| Self Monitoring Capabilities to Ensure 99.9% Uptime | |
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| System Monitoring (Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, z/OS) | |
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| Load testing/Build integration and automation | Production | Pre-Production |
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| Automated Regression 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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| Load Testing Integration (Loadrunner, JMeter, Gomez 360, VSTS) | |
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| Open Automation Interfaces (REST, JMX) | |
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| Out-of-the-box Load Testing Dashboards and Reports | |
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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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| Collaboration across the Lifecycle | Production | Pre-Production |
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| Browser-access to Dashboards and Reports | |
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| Customizable Dashboards | |
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| Dashboard Sharing | |
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| Flexible Role and Permission System | |
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| Manually Triggered Reports (PDF, XLS, HTML, CSV) | |
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| Protection and Omission of Sensitive Data | |
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| Scheduled Reports and Delivery (Online, eMail) | |
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| Secure User Authentication | |
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| User Groups and LDAP integration | |
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| Web-enabled AppMon Client (Java Webstart) | |
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| Deployment | Production | Pre-Production |
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| Built-in Performance Warehouse | |
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| Central Agent Deployment and Configuration | |
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| Cluster and Virtualization Support | |
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| Fault Tolerance (JVM Options, Network Overhead, Smart Sensors) | |
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| Free {dt} Viewer | |
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| High-performance, External Performance Warehouse (SQL, DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL) | |
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| Recovery and Watchdog (24x7 Support) | |
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| Schedule Downtimes for Maintanance Windows | |
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| WAN Support with Encryption/Compression | |
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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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