End User Experience, Network Performance Monitoring and Analytics

AppResponse Xpert is an appliance-based solution that delivers end-user experience monitoring for all types of applications. A broad range of virtual and physical appliances support the full spectrum of application environments from SMBs to the world’s largest application deployments.

AppResponse Xpert provides:

• End-user experience monitoring for web and non-web applications;
• Response time decomposition (triage and troubleshooting);
• Citrix troubleshooting;
• Database transaction monitoring;
• VoIP and video monitoring;
• Network traffic monitoring;
• High volume packet storage; and
• NetFlow collection and reporting (remote visibility).

Benefits

• Troubleshoot application performance problems faster.
• Detect application performance problems early, with no overhead on your application environment.
• Ensure the performance of web-based business transactions.
• Eliminate “finger-pointing” among IT teams concerning the source of application performance problems.
• Understand and address usage and performance trends for your applications and networks.
• Detect unauthorized or anomalous usage of network and server resources.

 

Use AppResponse Xpert to:

• Measure application performance for internal and external users of your enterprise applications.
• Monitor live performance for all users all the time, and alert against SLAs.
• Break down application response time into contributing sources and launch troubleshooting of root causes.
• Analyze traffic and response time among servers to manage multi-tier applications.
• Visualize communication within the data center and across the WAN.
• Measure traffic by application, user, business division, and location.
• Analyze historical information for trending and capacity planning.
• Measure performance of VoIP calls while they are in progress.
• Detect unexpected communication between application components.
• Baseline performance before making a change, and quantify the impact.

Key Features

• Agentless deployment for low overhead.
• 24x7 monitoring of all users and applications.
• Automatic application discovery and classification.
• Web page-level performance analysis.
• Automatic URL classification for SSL decryption.
• Centralized appliance management, including data aggregation and consolidation.
• Executive-level business reporting and web-based dashboards.
• High-volume packet capture and large capacity, long-term storage for forensic analysis of any transaction.
• NetFlow data collection, to obtain visibility of communications between remote locations, and provide joint analysis of traffic flows and application response time data.
• Broad family of appliances to support a range of throughput and storage requirements.
• Software appliances restore visibility of traffic between virtual machines within a server.
• Specialized support for networks with WAN acceleration, including Riverbed and Cisco WAAS devices, for accurate, end-to-end visibility.
• Customizable dashboards and workflows to suit your organization.
• Citrix Certified support for applications deployed over Citrix.

Compare AppResponse Xpert to other solutions

• A single AppResponse Xpert appliance supports a variety of use cases,  including deep packet inspection and application recognition; end-user experience monitoring at the user transaction level (e.g., web page level); high-volume packet capture and storage; flow-level analytics; NetFlow collection and reporting; and call VoIP monitoring. Other solutions typically require multiple appliances and servers and cover fewer use cases.
• Web transaction response time is measured at the page level -- the same way users experience it. Many vendors offer only HTTP request/response performance measurement.
• Each appliance operates independently, and can serve its own data, avoiding dependency on a centralized platform for analysis and reporting that represents a single point-of-failure.
• Flexible deployment options include both hardware and virtual appliances.
• One-minute resolution for aggregated performance statistics is more fine-grained than the typical 5- and 15-minute collection intervals.
• Web application performance is reported for every individual transaction.
• Dashboards and reports are easily customized to provide application-specific, intuitive screens and workflows adapted to the needs of your staff.
• Simple, fast deployment delivers rapid ROI and low TCO.

Integrations

• From dashboard view, seamlessly drill into AppTransaction Xpert for in-depth analysis of individual multi-tier transactions.
• Drill-down into AppInternals Xpert for conclusive root cause diagnosis when AppResponse Xpert indicates that the server is the source of excessive end-to-end response time.
• Leverage AppSensor Xpert to display network performance data along the entire layer2/3 network path for a transaction, and inspect server performance.
• Export traffic flow data into OPNET’s network performance management solutions, for network operations and planning.
• Incorporate SQL transaction performance data from AppSQL Xpert into AppResponse Xpert, for a single, unified view.
• AppResponse Xpert provides detailed information about application components and relationships to AppMapper Xpert, which automatically creates a run-time application dependency map.

Modules

• CX-Tracer for Citrix application performance troubleshooting.
• AppResponse Xpert Module for Database Performance
• On-board NetFlow collection.
• On-board VoIP monitoring.
• Expansion chassis to extend long term retention of forensic data.

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