Resources

EMA Radar Report: Advanced Performance Analytics

Get the low down on AppFirst from the EMA analysts & learn why they consider us a value leader in advanced performance analytics.
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Datasheet: Meet the DevOps Dashboard

Get a quick overview of the features and benefits of our DevOps Dashboard.
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Datasheet: Manage Business Risk with AppFirst

Learn how AppFirst can help you manage business risks and achieve the elusive alignment between business and IT. A perfect piece to share with your CIO.
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Case Study: Manage Business Risk with AppFirst

See how AppFirst delivers visibility to the Burgiss Group to ensure that customers are able to access Web service sites and run critical reports for data-driven business decisions.
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On-Demand Webcast:
All About StatsD

Have you discovered the power of StatsD yet? Want to learn more about how you can leverage this powerful technology to get deep insights into your business metrics? This webcast is made for you!

StatsD enables you to measure all sorts of interesting things in your environment. We are big fans of its ability to visualize your business metrics -- and have designed our DevOps Dashboard to enable you to see these metrics alongside your infrastructure performance data. Finally, you can get a complete view of what's really happening thanks to StatsD.
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Webinar: The Tech Execs Guide to Business Risk Management

The AppFirst Business Risk Management solution finally gives you the single view of business and systems metrics that you need to attain true business-IT alignment. Using AppFirst's single, unified repository, we enable you to view critical systems data through the lens of business performance – in real time. That means you can finally connect the dots between plummeting online transactions and a misbehaving server, or between a sudden halt in your morning email blast and a floundering database.

Regardless of which business metrics are core to your daily operations, we can help you get the visibility you need to be successful.

This 20-minute webinar will go over how the world of IT has changed and how to unify Business and IT.
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Use Case: Increased Load

In this use case, we use AppFirst to identify a problem on our own production system caused by too many collectors uploading all at once. This completely normal increase in load went beyond our threshold for processing it and ended up causing the data queues (where we store the data before processing it) to back up. In this demonstration, we show:

• Being notified of the problem with multiple alerts triggering.
• Easily viewing graphs that demonstrate the problem.
• Quickly correlate our "Miss Nothing Data" with Nagios data from our RabbitMQ server to see a complete picture of what happened.
• Getting to the root cause of the problem: increased load on our Backend from a peak in the number of active collectors.

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Use Case: Configuration File Changed

In this use case video we use AppFirst to identify a configuration issue, that we haven't limited the number of requests Apache can handle before all of memory is used and causes the server to crash.

In this demonstration we show:

• The power of correlation. Using one data source would not have been enough for us to identify the problem.
• Having trend data is important.
• AppFirst can be used for more than performance issues, it can also be used for configuration problems.

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