SOA Performance Management

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) turns IT applications into composite applications, composed of many services often developed, tested, and deployed independently by separate development teams. While SOA applications are simpler to develop because they reuse existing services, the loose coupling of the component modules and services presents unique challenges to ensuring performance and scalability during production. End-to-end solutions for SOA performance management are required that address service quality across multiple SOA service implementations with real-time performance monitoring and diagnosis of root causes. A comprehensive SOA strategy requires analytics that enable both rapid troubleshooting and proactive prevention of problems.

OPNET’s unique end-to-end approach is particularly crucial in SOA environments, where the complexity of the distributed environment makes troubleshooting especially challenging and time-consuming. By providing deep visibility into application components and data flows, our solutions help developers and support engineers troubleshoot application response time delays due to unnecessary, inefficient, or mis-coded calls to internal and remote Web Services (e.g. SOAP, XML-RPC, REST).

OPNET’s ACE Live monitors application response times as seen by end users, and quantifies the contribution of Web Services tiers to end-to-end response time delay. ACE Analyst leverages a network perspective into application performance to visualize individual application messages exchanged between services and server tiers, leveraging detailed application and protocol decodes to provide visibility into code-level application statements. OPNET Panorama monitors performance across all application tiers, back-end databases and Web Services, providing deep visibility into Java and .NET components to pinpoint and address performance bottlenecks within the application code, and correlating web performance issues to root causes that originate on the back-end.