Compuware Unveils Outage Analyzer, a New Generation Performance Analytics Solution that Raises the Intelligence of SaaS APM
Announcement posted by Bass PR 11 Oct 2012
Outage Analyzer (beta) Tracks Cloud and Third-party Web Service Outages With Instant Notification of Cause and Impact
Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR), the technology performance company today announced a new generation performance analytics solution that raises the intelligence of software-as-a-service (SaaS) application performance management (APM). Outage Analyzer <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> provides real-time visualisations and alerts of outages in third-party web services that are mission critical to web, mobile and cloud applications around the globe. Compuware is providing this new service free of charge. Check out Outage Analyzer here <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> .
Utilising cutting-edge big data technologies and a proprietary anomaly detection engine, Outage Analyzer correlates more than eight billion data points per day. This data is collected from the Compuware Gomez Performance Monitoring Network <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/gomez-apm-products.html> of more than 150,000 test locations and delivers information on specific outages including the scope, duration and probable cause of the event – all visualised in real-time.
“Compuware’s new Outage Analyzer <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> service is a primary example of the emerging industry trend toward applying big data analytics technologies to help understand and resolve application performance and availability issues in near real-time,” said Tim Grieser, Program VP, Enterprise System Management Software at IDC. “Outage Analyzer’s ability to analyse and visualise large masses of data, with automated anomaly detection, can help IT and business users better understand the sources and causes of outages in third-party web services.”
Cloud and third-party web services allow organisations to rapidly deliver a rich user experience, but also expose web and mobile sites to degraded performance - or even a total outage - should any of those components fail. Research shows that the typical website has more than ten separate hosts contributing to a single transaction, many of which come from third-party cloud services such as social media, ecommerce platforms, web analytics, ad servers and content delivery networks.
Outage Analyzer addresses this complexity with the following capabilities:
· Incident Visualisation: Issues with third-party services are automatically visualised on Outage Analyzer’s <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> global map view. This view displays information on the current status, impact - based on severity and geography - and duration, along with the certainty and probable cause of the outage. Outage Analyzer <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> also provides a timeline view that shows the spread and escalation of the outage. The timeline has a playback feature to replay the outage and review its impact over time.
· Incident Filtering and Searching: With Outage Analyzer <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> , users can automatically view the most recent outages, filtered by severity of impact, or search for outages in specific IPs, IP ranges or service domains. This allows users to find the outages in services that are potentially impacting their own applications.
· Alerting: Users can sign-up to automatically receive alerts - RSS and Twitter feeds - and can specify the exact types of incidents to be alerted on such as popularity of third-party web service provider, certainty of an outage and by the geographical region impacted. Alerts contain links to the global map view and details of the outage. This provides an early-warning system to potential problems.
· Performance Analytics Big Data Platform: Utilising cutting-edge big data technologies in the cloud, including Flume and Hadoop, Outage Analyzer collects live data from the entire Gomez customer base and Gomez Benchmark tests, processing more than eight billion data points per day. The processing from raw data to visualization and alerting on an outage all happens within minutes, making the outage data timely and actionable.
· Anomaly Detection Algorithms: At the heart of Outage Analyzer’s <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> big data platform is a proprietary anomaly detection engine that automatically identifies availability issues with third-party web services that are impacting performance of the web across the globe. Outage Analyzer <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> then correlates the outage data, identifies the source of the problem, calculates the impact and lists the probable causes – all in real-time.
“Since Outage Analyzer has been up and running, we’ve seen an average of about 200 third-party web service outages a day,” said Steve Tack, VP Product Management, Compuware APM business unit. “Outage Analyzer is just the beginning. Our big data platform, propriety correlation and anomaly detection algorithms, and intuitive visualisations of issues with cloud and third-party web services are key building-blocks to delivering a new generation of answer-centric APM.”
Outage Analyzer <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> harnesses the collective intelligence of the Compuware Gomez Network, the largest and most active APM SaaS platform <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/gomez-apm-products.html> in the world. Now eight billion measurements a day across the global Internet can be harnessed by any organisation serious about delivering exceptional web application performance. Determining whether an application performance issue is the fault of an organisation’s code, or the fault of a third-party service has never been easier.
Compuware APM® <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/compuware-apm.html> is the industry’s leading solution for optimising the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/end-user-experience-synthetic-monitoring.html> , Compuware APM provides the market’s only unified APM coverage across the entire application delivery chain - from the edge of the internet through the cloud to the datacentre. Compuware APM helps customers <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/customers.html> deliver proactive problem resolution for greater customer satisfaction, accelerate time-to-market for new application functionality and reduce application management costs through smarter analytics and advanced APM automation.
With more than 4,000 APM customers worldwide, Compuware is recognized as a leader in the “Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring” <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/compuware-leadership-in-the-APM-market.html> report. To read more about Compuware’s leadership in the APM market, click here <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/compuware-leadership-in-the-APM-market.html> .
Follow Compuware on:
· Twitter - CompuwareAPM <http://twitter.com/compuwareapm>
· Twitter - Compuware <http://twitter.com/compuware>
· Facebook – CompuwareAPM <http://www.facebook.com/GomezAPM>
· Facebook - Compuware <http://www.facebook.com/compuware>
· YouTube - Compuware <http://www.youtube.com/user/compuware>
· APM Blog <http://application-performance-blog.com/>
· dynaTrace Blog <http://blog.dynatrace.com/>
· CloudSleuth <http://www.cloudsleuth.net/>
Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, provides software, experts and best practices to ensure technology works well and delivers value. Compuware solutions make the world’s most important technologies perform at their best for leading organisations worldwide, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites. Learn more at: http://www.compuware.com
Utilising cutting-edge big data technologies and a proprietary anomaly detection engine, Outage Analyzer correlates more than eight billion data points per day. This data is collected from the Compuware Gomez Performance Monitoring Network <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/gomez-apm-products.html> of more than 150,000 test locations and delivers information on specific outages including the scope, duration and probable cause of the event – all visualised in real-time.
“Compuware’s new Outage Analyzer <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> service is a primary example of the emerging industry trend toward applying big data analytics technologies to help understand and resolve application performance and availability issues in near real-time,” said Tim Grieser, Program VP, Enterprise System Management Software at IDC. “Outage Analyzer’s ability to analyse and visualise large masses of data, with automated anomaly detection, can help IT and business users better understand the sources and causes of outages in third-party web services.”
Cloud and third-party web services allow organisations to rapidly deliver a rich user experience, but also expose web and mobile sites to degraded performance - or even a total outage - should any of those components fail. Research shows that the typical website has more than ten separate hosts contributing to a single transaction, many of which come from third-party cloud services such as social media, ecommerce platforms, web analytics, ad servers and content delivery networks.
Outage Analyzer addresses this complexity with the following capabilities:
· Incident Visualisation: Issues with third-party services are automatically visualised on Outage Analyzer’s <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> global map view. This view displays information on the current status, impact - based on severity and geography - and duration, along with the certainty and probable cause of the outage. Outage Analyzer <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> also provides a timeline view that shows the spread and escalation of the outage. The timeline has a playback feature to replay the outage and review its impact over time.
· Incident Filtering and Searching: With Outage Analyzer <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> , users can automatically view the most recent outages, filtered by severity of impact, or search for outages in specific IPs, IP ranges or service domains. This allows users to find the outages in services that are potentially impacting their own applications.
· Alerting: Users can sign-up to automatically receive alerts - RSS and Twitter feeds - and can specify the exact types of incidents to be alerted on such as popularity of third-party web service provider, certainty of an outage and by the geographical region impacted. Alerts contain links to the global map view and details of the outage. This provides an early-warning system to potential problems.
· Performance Analytics Big Data Platform: Utilising cutting-edge big data technologies in the cloud, including Flume and Hadoop, Outage Analyzer collects live data from the entire Gomez customer base and Gomez Benchmark tests, processing more than eight billion data points per day. The processing from raw data to visualization and alerting on an outage all happens within minutes, making the outage data timely and actionable.
· Anomaly Detection Algorithms: At the heart of Outage Analyzer’s <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> big data platform is a proprietary anomaly detection engine that automatically identifies availability issues with third-party web services that are impacting performance of the web across the globe. Outage Analyzer <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> then correlates the outage data, identifies the source of the problem, calculates the impact and lists the probable causes – all in real-time.
“Since Outage Analyzer has been up and running, we’ve seen an average of about 200 third-party web service outages a day,” said Steve Tack, VP Product Management, Compuware APM business unit. “Outage Analyzer is just the beginning. Our big data platform, propriety correlation and anomaly detection algorithms, and intuitive visualisations of issues with cloud and third-party web services are key building-blocks to delivering a new generation of answer-centric APM.”
Outage Analyzer <http://www.outageanalyzer.com/> harnesses the collective intelligence of the Compuware Gomez Network, the largest and most active APM SaaS platform <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/gomez-apm-products.html> in the world. Now eight billion measurements a day across the global Internet can be harnessed by any organisation serious about delivering exceptional web application performance. Determining whether an application performance issue is the fault of an organisation’s code, or the fault of a third-party service has never been easier.
Compuware APM® <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/compuware-apm.html> is the industry’s leading solution for optimising the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/end-user-experience-synthetic-monitoring.html> , Compuware APM provides the market’s only unified APM coverage across the entire application delivery chain - from the edge of the internet through the cloud to the datacentre. Compuware APM helps customers <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/customers.html> deliver proactive problem resolution for greater customer satisfaction, accelerate time-to-market for new application functionality and reduce application management costs through smarter analytics and advanced APM automation.
With more than 4,000 APM customers worldwide, Compuware is recognized as a leader in the “Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring” <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/compuware-leadership-in-the-APM-market.html> report. To read more about Compuware’s leadership in the APM market, click here <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/compuware-leadership-in-the-APM-market.html> .
Follow Compuware on:
· Twitter - CompuwareAPM <http://twitter.com/compuwareapm>
· Twitter - Compuware <http://twitter.com/compuware>
· Facebook – CompuwareAPM <http://www.facebook.com/GomezAPM>
· Facebook - Compuware <http://www.facebook.com/compuware>
· YouTube - Compuware <http://www.youtube.com/user/compuware>
· APM Blog <http://application-performance-blog.com/>
· dynaTrace Blog <http://blog.dynatrace.com/>
· CloudSleuth <http://www.cloudsleuth.net/>
Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, provides software, experts and best practices to ensure technology works well and delivers value. Compuware solutions make the world’s most important technologies perform at their best for leading organisations worldwide, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites. Learn more at: http://www.compuware.com