Why Our Multi-Source Collection Matters To You

For proactive Business Risk Management, you need continuous data collection from more than one data source so you don’t miss anything. That’s why we’ve provided you with a variety of data sources to get a complete view of your system.

AppFirst’s patent-pending C.H.I.P. collection Data:
Continuous Holistic Intra-Process.
C.H.I.P collects more than a million metrics per server per
day, just by itself, with less than 1% CPU overhead.
Log File Data
StatsD Business Metrics
Nagios Plugins (for Linux users) or Windows Performance Counters

All Your System Vitals - Millions of Metrics with less than 1% Overhead

Our patent-pending C.H.I.P. collector makes up the foundation of our collection. C.H.I.P. lives in every running process on your system, continuously monitoring every interaction it makes with our system. Millions of metrics are collected per server per day, giving you the most granular view of your system data. All of this is done with the lowest overhead in the market - less than 1% for Linux and less than 0.6% for Windows.*

Plugin Architecture to Collect The Data You Need

With our foundational data in place, we decided to add even more data.
Combine your Log File Data, Business Metrics, Nagios plugins, and Windows Performance Counters with
C.H.I.P. data and you'll have one incredible collection platform at your fingertips.
At last, all the data you need to manage your business and system risks, all in a unified repository.

Easy Setup + Instant Streaming

Just one of the benefits of being a world-class SaaS solution

Installing our collector on your cloud, virtual, physical, or hybrid servers is fast and painless. With ZERO customization, get detailed performance information for every process on your system. All that without impacting performance.

Language Agnostic

Our collector works with everything!
Yes, everything. Name a language, and we support it.

System-Call Interception: Grabbing The Data That Matters To You

Our C.H.I.P. collection data is made possible by where we collect: at the System-Call Level.

What does this mean for you?
Because our collector sits so deep in the stack, it intercepts all system calls and data exchanges between the kernel and your application. Now you have all your application behavior data at your fingertips to manage business risks.

A Reliable Foundation to Build Upon

Having a strong foundation for data collection is important. AppFirst’s C.H.I.P. collector provides continuous, real-time data collection and a complete view of your systems so not a single piece of data goes unnoticed. C.H.I.P. dynamically attaches to every running process and records all activity from the process-level down across the entire application stack, providing a reliable foundation for you to build upon.

If your foundation is data from scripts or counters at polling intervals, you're missing wide gaps of important data in between, creating a weak foundation for managing risk.

Click to see the difference

Without a complete view of your systems, you're putting the health of your systems, and your business, at risk.

Safe and Secure

We're committed to making sure all of your data is secure,
so all of it is encrypted, compressed, and then
uploaded to our backend servers every 20 seconds to
our secure, state-of-the-art infrastructure.

What this Means For You

This allows you to proactively identify issues, find the root cause, and resolve the issues before your customers know what happened.

Go from Reactive to Proactive

Identify Issues

AppFirst sends you an
alert based on a negative
trending issue.

Find the Root Cause

Our intuitive Root Cause
Wizard identifies dependencies,
time frames, and affected
resources, then shows you
graphs to identify the
cause of each issue.