Virtualization Monitoring - Heroix Longitude

Heroix Longitude®'s VMware monitoring solution monitors key performance indicators in virtualized environments and alerts you to potential issues with guests or hosts. These built-in monitors help form the foundation of Longitude Cloud Edition, which integrates key performance metrics with end user experience monitoring and service level agreement monitoring to provide a single pane of glass through which to assess and assure service levels in cloud and virtualized environments.

A New Monitoring Paradigm

Traditionally, the health of an application could be assessed based on the resource utilization of the underlying server and physical infrastructure. Application Performance Best Practices that evolved over the years dictated that performance degradations could be expected when the server CPU, memory, I/O, and disk utilization crossed certain well known thresholds. Additional data, such as workload characterization information and user response time, helped to fine tune the process of monitoring and evaluating application performance.

Virtualization has necessitated a new approach to monitoring application performance. Why? In a virtualized environment, there is no longer a one-to-one correspondence between an operating system instance and a physical server. A single server (host) could host several operating system instances (guests or VMs), each running its own OS and application workload; furthermore, guests may be migrated automatically among hosts in order to maintain optimal load balancing among the available resources. Additionally, resources are grouped in datastores, clusters, resource pools and data centers, and dynamically allocated according to workload. Therefore, monitoring software must look at virtual resource utilization and user response, as well as physical resource utilization, in order to gauge application performance.

Longitude: An Integrated Approach

Longitude's VMware monitoring solution monitors the key performance indicators that matter in virtualized environments and alerts you to potential issues with guests or hosts. These built-in VMware monitors work in conjunction with end user experience monitoring and service level agreement monitoring to give IT organizations the accurate performance data needed to assess and assure service levels in virtualized environments. Longitude provides an integrated approach to monitoring your virtualized environment:

Automatically collects key physical and virtual performance metrics for VMware guests, hosts, resource pools, clusters, datastores, and datacenters.
Consolidates alarms generated by VMware itself for unified alerting and reporting.
Alerts you to potential performance or availability problems with guests, hosts, or any VMware-related entities, and optionally takes corrective action.
Generates comprehensive reports to show physical utilization and virtual utilization.
Correlates VMware indicators and infrastructure issues with end user response metrics for the most accurate assessment of application performance.

With Longitude you get the best of both worlds – agentless software that’s not only affordable and easy to install and use, but gives you the kind of comprehensive application and network performance monitoring that you’d expect from high end agent-based software. Longitude monitors hundreds of vital performance metrics, alerts you to problems, takes any corrective actions you specify, and generates reports and graphs that demonstrate just how well your operating system, databases, web servers, and messaging servers are performing. Best of all, everything is presented in dashboard views that let you drill down to investigate problems and find answers fast.

In keeping with its robust functionality, Heroix Longitude scales with ease. It’s equally adept at monitoring a few servers or many. And unlike some other agentless solutions, Longitude is totally self-contained with no prerequisites for layered software. You won’t have to install extra software, nor will you get stung by unexpected costs such as additional database, report writer, and runtime license fees. In most cases, Longitude can be deployed in about 15 minutes!

Monitoring Virtualized Environments