Network Performance Monitoring and Telemetry | AppSensor™

AppSensor™: Maximize the performance of your applications with end-to-end network visibility and performance monitoring across software-defined and cloud-based architectures

With increasing network complexity and the move toward cloud-based and software-defined architectures, tools that provide visibility into the performance of network, infrastructure and application components, as well as end-user experience, are critical for monitoring complex IT environments. Apcela’s AppSensor™ is an application-aware network performance monitoring and telemetry solution that constantly scans and reports end-to-end network and application performance to give real-time insights into performance issues and optimization opportunities. Through network instrumentation, AppSensor proactively monitors and analyzes application performance across underlay and overlay networks, enabling infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams to locate application-specific performance problems faster, thereby reducing time-to-diagnose and accelerating time-to-repair.

AppSensor™ + EAP

Real-Time Insight into Network, Infrastructure and Application Performance

Monitoring application performance across the entire network can often lead to multiple performance management tools and point solutions giving limited visibility to specific aspects of performance without a centralized, end-to-end view of network and application performance. Integrated with Apcela’s Enhanced Analytics Platform (EAP), its AppSensor™ addresses a crucial requirement for enterprises operating mission-critical applications in the cloud — providing the necessary visibility into networks and applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments through a single pane of glass. Apcela’s AppSensor™ monitors and communicates the state of the network in real-time, providing a critical link between network infrastructure and application performance. Deployed across the enterprise, each sensor on the AppSensor™ runs a configurable set of synthetic network and application performance tests. These tests deliver a continuous stream of telemetry data over Apcela’s high-performance, low-latency backbone for analysis and proactive remediation via its EAP. Data can also be collected at the user and application level for transmission and processing by the analytics platform. EAP provides several types of analytical capabilities, including trend reporting, alerting, and anomaly detection. By running these tests from a fleet of strategically distributed sensors, infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams can dramatically improve the precision with which they instrument, monitor and maintain their application delivery infrastructure. The result is real-time, end-to-end network visibility and improved application performance delivered with zero additional infrastructure footprint.  

Apcela’s AppSensor™ enables I&O teams to gain near-time visibility of infrastructure and application performance, monitor SaaS and IaaS solutions from a user’s point of view, validate reported issues and integrate cloud-based and on-premises application performance monitoring. The Solution is designed to meet the requirements of highly distributed enterprises, or organizations with a significant number of applications deployed in cloud or hybrid environments. 

Apcela’s AppSensor™ Deployment

Apcela’s AppSensor™ is designed to immediately support zero-touch provisioning and can be fully configured and deployed within 2-4 weeks. The AppSensor™’s test suite is quickly extensible and provides a readily expandable monitoring footprint across enterprise networks, becoming a crucial component for delivering a highly available application acceleration platform. Together, these solutions allow I&O teams to maintain a transparent and timely awareness of user-facing application issues with the ability to quickly adjust application and infrastructure elements before issues arise.