• Application Centric View – monitor how all of the tiers of the application interact rather than looking at the performance of individual servers; monitor applications built using components and languages such as Hadoop, Cassandra, Erlang, PHP, Python, Ruby, Riak, CouchDB and others
• Real Time – redefining real-time monitoring – see the impact within seconds of the packets flowing, as opposed to waiting for several minutes; be able to spot 'brown outs' before 'black outs' occur.
Read notes that it's usually not a single root cause that causes performance issues with applications, but rather a combination of different issues that together trigger the degradation. The Boundary system works by collecting data from the multiple components involved in an application deployment. The collected information is pushed through Boundary’s real-time processing engine and queries are automatically run to interpret the data in real time, and then display on a management GUI, which is updated on a second-by-second basis. Simply put, the network data is organized, analyzed and presented in real time via the management console.
The company’s ideology differs significantly from other monitoring products – instead of using a device-centric model like traditional tools, Boundary focuses on understanding the whole distributed environment. It accomplishes that by looking at every packet that traverses the network, and is able to understand the packet’s contents, as well as where it originated and where it will go.
The company is offering a 14-day free trail (which includes 5 meters) to interested parties via their Website (www.boundary.com). Paid subscriptions to the service are also available and are billed based upon 'meter-hours'. A meter-hour is one meter connected for one hour (or part thereof).
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