Java Application Management

Vantage Analyzer is the premier J2EE performance monitoring and analysis solution that helps IT organizations improve application service. It directs users straight to the source of performance problems using unmatched visibility and detailed transaction analysis without draining production resources. What's more, the powerful monitoring and analysis features of Vantage Analyzer can be put to use right out of the box—it's ready to go without hours of installation and configuration.

Open the J2EE black box

Vantage Analyzer opens the proverbial J2EE "black box" to provide both a broad overview of their production environments and the insight needed to pinpoint exact locations of code-level performance problems-in production and test environments. With technology that delivers a visual landscape of J2EE component-based performance metrics and component interactions, Vantage Analyzer helps IT staffs quickly tackle performance problem backlogs, stabilize poorly performing applications and align technology with business requirements.

Real-time, around-the-clock awareness

Service management is simplified with Vantage Analyzer's robust monitoring capabilities. You can monitor methods by CPU, invocations and response time, gain valuable performance insight into SQL calls, and also collect key JMX metrics--right out of the box. Vantage Analyzer can be configured to trigger alarms, such as sending a page or an e-mail, to alert administrators of degraded performance, resource starvation, hung transactions, system response-time issues or the approach of system transaction capacity.

Pinpoint J2EE and .NET performance bottlenecks

When you encounter a production performance problem, Vantage Analyzer provides both a high-level view of entire J2EE workloads and in-depth detail on specific execution paths, giving operations personnel the ability to easily locate problems and gather the detailed information needed to hand the problem off to the right experts (DBAs, network and systems administrators, application developers). No other product on the market provides this flexibility and scope to observe the total activity from a single product-without impacting production application resources-and then easily zeroes in on the problem with deep analysis.

Unique to Vantage Analyzer is its ability to collect not only wall-clock transaction response times, but also time spent in CPU executions, so you can determine whether a transaction is slow because it is executing code or waiting on other application tiers. Calculating at the microsecond level, the precision of Vantage Analyzer helps you fine-tune your most business-critical applications.

A solution optimized for production

Other J2EE application monitoring solutions gather data using a Java-based agent, which causes the monitoring overhead to increase linearly with application load. In order to keep CPU overhead down, Vantage Analyzer utilizes several intelligent profiling techniques. As a result, you can gather performance metrics without adversely affecting your application. You don't need to figure out what portions of your code to monitor or bring production servers down to make monitoring changes. In addition, Vantage Analyzer calculates its overhead at startup, which you can customize for your hardware bus and CPU speed, as well as memory I/O. Vantage Analyzer contains automatic internal throttling to ensure your CPU-rather than the monitor-is optimized for your application's needs.

Simplify the hunt for J2EE memory leaks

Finding memory leaks in J2EE applications is akin to finding the proverbial needle in a haystack—unless you use Vantage Analyzer. Its revolutionary memory profiler plug-in Memory Scope identifies J2EE memory leaks and high memory allocation sites automatically, allowing your operations and development teams to focus on problem resolution.

Java Memory Hot Spots View (click image to enlarge)

Effectively communicate J2EE performance

Vantage Analyzer users have the option of selecting an internal reporting system or VantageView, the management reporting arm of Vantage. Reports include node CPU and JVM heap utilization, the top ten worst-performing methods (JSPs, servlets and EJBs), as well as the top ten worst-performing SQL calls. These reports can be used to compare releases and ensure quality control throughout development and QA life cycles.

Get an end-to-end view of J2EE transaction performance

ClientVantage, Compuware’s end-user experience monitoring solution, proactively identifies web pages suffering from long server-processing times and then links to Vantage Analyzer for complete server-side analysis to find the source of the problem. In addition, Vantage Analyzer is intelligently integrated with ApplicationVantage, Vantage’s premier transaction performance analysis solution. Implemented together, they provide transaction performance analysis from the end-user perspective to the web server tier as well as method-level, backend server analysis. The result? An end-to-end view of J2EE transaction performance unmatched in the industry.