OPNET OPNET Primera Suite Integral de APM OPNET ha adoptado un enfoque denominado "de alta definición de gestión de rendimiento" de su suite de APM. Esta Suite APM se basa en las siguientes características:

Breadth

Applications are implemented across many functional domains in the IT infrastructure, including client, WAN, LAN, web/app Server, database server, and storage area networks and servers, as well as other services (e.g., directory services) upon which the application’s logic depend. All of these domains may have an impact on application performance. An APM solution with breadth provides visibility into most or all of these areas.

Depth

Depth represents the “high resolution” aspect of high-definition. It means that the collected information is rich enough to characterize problems, uncover behavioral patterns, and isolate the root cause of performance issues. In certain parts of the infrastructure, depth down to very fine-grained levels, such as monitoring code execution, or examining packets, reveals key information for successful APM. OPNET’s APM approach emphasizes a combined analysis of two types of data: performance data and forensic data. Performance data consists of metrics that typically reflect the transactional workload, as well as the response of the infrastructure to that workload. These metrics are recorded as a function of time and may be treated as either individual samples, or aggregated over regular time intervals. Forensic data more closely parallels the execution of individual transactions as they proceed through the infrastructure. Forensic information includes code level traces (e.g., method call stacks), detailed resource tracking (e.g., memory allocations), and deep packet inspection of network traffic.

Analytics

Breadth and depth multiply to yield a challenge: vast quantities of data. Putting that data to work to solve problems requires advanced tools. We call these tools “Analytics”: a suite of algorithms and techniques for extracting useful information from data collected by the APM instrumentation. OPNET has been a pioneer in introducing progressively more advanced, yet practical, analytics in APM solutions.

Integration

To address each of the domains of an application requires specialized tools. These tools, by their very nature, have different workflows and manipulate different types of information. However, using the tools in a coordinated fashion provides far more support and efficiency to APM users. OPNET’s integrated solution suite provides workflows that transition from domain to domain while preserving context, as well as combined views based on true correlation and data fusion.

Low Overhead

All of the capabilities cited above become impractical to deploy if they impose overhead that noticeably impacts application performance. OPNET has specialized in developing zero overhead passive monitoring and low-overhead agent-based technologies to collect data for its APM solutions. All of OPNET’s solutions are designed for production environments.