Features and Benefits

PerformaSure®

Automatic Transaction Mapping with Tag-and-Follow™ Technology

Quest’s exclusive Tag-and-Follow technology provides a transaction-centric view of the performance of the entire distributed J2EE application. Tag-and-Follow reconstructs the end-to-end execution path of individual user request transactions touching all physical servers, logical software components and methods -- shown in an intuitive, color-coded request tree or Call Tree-browser that instantly identifies bottleneck components and performance problems.

• Graphical display of request architecture and performance
• Tier-by-tier timing breakdown
• Support for clustered servers

On-Demand Diagnostics Suitable for Production Environments

Ultra low-overhead agents with automatic sampling enable PerformaSure to run quickly and securely on production systems too. Running in production in stealth mode, PerformaSure’s data capture can be triggered automatically by a monitoring tool enabling staff to quickly resolve unexpected problems through analyzing real user transaction data.

Reporting and Performance Data Export

Generate detailed performance analysis reports in Acrobat PDF, XML or Excel-friendly CSV format. Easily provide managers and team members objective data on the source of any Java EE performance problem. Compare and trend performance metrics over time.

Uninterrupted Control

Conveniently control PerformaSure’s Power-filtering, overhead and data-gathering options – all without restarting servers or disrupting systems.

Capture Data at Different Levels of Detail - Component to Method Level

High-level component performance view makes initial investigation easy. Configure the level of data collected and the associated sampling rate, and easily control and collect diagnostics without producing unwanted overhead.

Metrics Browser

The Metrics browser provides a unified view for detailed investigation of a range of metrics, including JVM memory usage, operating system metrics and application server runtime metrics. Using a simple but powerful drag-and-drop interface, users can plot metrics individually or correlated according to time. Graphically (and easily) compare performance across system tiers, between servers deployed in a cluster, and more.

SQL Browser

The PerformaSure SQL Browser makes it easy to find your most problematic SQL operations -- and even subdivides time spent in opening connections, closing connections, preparing the statement, executing the query and parsing the resulting data. This data makes it easy for even the novice SQL programmer to find the root cause of complex Java EE/database interaction problems.

Portal Browser

PerformaSure provides a comprehensive solution in diagnosing WebLogic Portal applications. PerformaSure automatically maps portal transactions and displays the WebLogic Portal Control Tree processing for these transactions for complete performance measurement.

Key features:

• Instant Component Breakdown:                                                                         Analyze Portal performance by measuring the time spent in portlets, services, Portal caching and Portal framework.
• Metrics Correlation:                                                                                            Identify the interdependencies between Java components being executed and isolate problem methods for poor performing portlets.
• Holistic View:                                                                                                           View the Portal application as a whole (not in isolation) by correlating end-user transactions to Portal processing and back end SQL calls with the Java EE and operating system infrastructure.