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How Foglight Delivers the Benefits
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Application management is an area of IT that supports the larger vision of bridging the chasm to the business. At the same time, it aims to keep users happy with the services on which they depend. Read on to see how Foglight delivers the key benefits needed for Application Management.
Lower the operational cost of managing applications
Most organizations are using expensive manual effort, trial and error, and precious time to tackle problems. Foglight automation provides all relevant information needed to understand and solve a problem the first time. Expensive delays that keep end users and the business waiting, suffering and thinking about leaving you are history. Foglight lowers the cost of operations through problem resolution, tool administration and customization.
- Correlated Data and Diagnostics: Automation across a correlated view of the application gets you to the root cause of a problem faster
- Adaptive Models: Make it easier and cheaper to adjust the managed environment
- Adaptive Dashboards: Automatically reconfigure themselves based on configuration changes in the monitored environment to reduce the cost and effort of constantly maintaining them manually
- Discovery and Service Dependency Mapping: Significantly reduces the level of effort required to maintain and accurate model of your application environment
- Leverage Existing Investments: Integrate data feeds to/from your other monitoring tools to reduce training costs and increase time-to-value
Mitigate risk of application downtime
Foglight provides historical view of application performance metrics and changes to the monitored environment to identify trends and help you proactively prevent disruptions. It delivers quick time-to-value with proven, out-of-the-box (OOTB) capabilities for management of application performance, middleware, the end user and the database.
- Provides Quick Time-To-Value: Proven out-of-the-box capabilities for application performance, middleware, end-user and database management
- Discovery and Service Dependency Mapping: Identifies vulnerability from unmonitored components
- Flexible Architecture: New agents can be changed or added quickly without bringing the monitoring environment down to eliminate gaps in monitoring coverage
- Role Based Dashboards: Automatically adapt to changes as they occur to ensure an accurate picture of application performance
- Proactive Management: Application performance and change trending enables prevention of future disruptions
- Discovery: Expose vulnerabilities by identifying and incorporating unmonitored application components
- Incremental and Rapid Deployment: Manage applications by what’s most at risk
Improve application service levels
Foglight will model and manage your applications according to the service(s) they support. Whether you have contractual service level agreements or a basic understanding of what the business needs, Foglight will help you manage the application as a business service, not just a compilation of technology components.
- Prioritize the Work: Business service to infrastructure dependency models identify components causing service degradation and help prioritize problem resolution based on business priority
- Early Warning of Problems: Continuous monitoring of end-user experience and service level policies at the IT and business service levels reduces the time it takes IT to become aware of a business impacting problem
- Reduced Resolution Time: Correlation of the end-user experience
Reduce incident counts and mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) of incidents
Improving performance after an application is in production means reducing the number of incidents and the mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) for incidents. Foglight correlates metrics, components and relationships across your IT infrastructure into a 360-degree application view to identify and diagnose the exact root cause of the incident and then empowers the right team to resolve the problem.
- Correlation: Aligns all infrastructure components and relationships to the applications you are managing
- Real-time Diagnostics: Real-time data and automated workflows guide you to the problem
- Historical Analytics: Foglight’s historical views help you prevent future problems
Provide visibility for stakeholders
Foglight is all about visibility. Without it, you are left to guess what may be wrong—and you may not even know there is a problem to guess about. It can help you gain a new level of insight into your critical applications and the end-user experience, increase collaboration and help focus management and staff on the problems that matter most to the business.
- Actionable Information: Role-based, customizable dashboards provide the right information to the right people at the right time to stay compliant with business needs
- Dashboards: Arm stakeholders with the right information to improve their efficiency
- Common Views: Performance information organized around the applications and services it impacts enables a common understanding and facilitates collaboration among team members to aid in problem resolution and proactive prevention of problems
- User Experience: See exactly what users experienced by replaying their sessions
- Prioritize the Work: Uses alerting rules, service policies and threshold settings to manage multiple problems in parallel
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