ExtraHop Networks brings much-needed innovation to application performance management (APM). The network-based ExtraHop system is engineered from the ground up to meet the performance monitoring needs of IT Operations teams, for whom multiple siloed tools are inadequate to manage increasingly heterogeneous, modular, and dynamic application environments. Compared with legacy approaches that rely on invasive agents, probes, and instrumentation, network-based APM provides unique advantages:
- Uses zero system resources and never perturbs the systems being monitored
- Views the network, web servers, application servers, databases, and storage systems as one integral delivery system
- Scales and dynamically adjusts to changes in the IT environment including application updates and physical and virtual infrastructure changes
- Proactively warns of potential problems before they impact users or business operations
- Offers value to a wide range of IT Operations personnel, not just specialist teams
Watch the ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system product demo.
On the Wire
The premise underlying network-based APM is that the health and performance information needed to manage business-critical applications is available on the wire. Engineered by the lead architects of F5 Networks’ TMOS platform and BIG-IP product line, the ExtraHop system offers the most sophisticated transaction analysis capabilities of any network-based solution, and is able to extract L2–L7 metrics from hundreds of thousands of transactions simultaneously. In addition to L2–L4 device- and network-level metrics, the ExtraHop system records critical L7 application-level metrics for unmatched application awareness from a network-based solution. Read more about how the ExtraHop system works.
Powerful APM Capabilities
Network-based APM provides the real-time, cross-tier visibility that IT Operations teams need to manage application performance. Continuously adapting to changes in the application environment, the ExtraHop system analyzes application performance across all tiers, including network, web, database, and storage. IT teams use this information to accomplish the following tasks critical to managing application performance:
- Proactive early warning
- Triaging and troubleshooting
- Mapping and measuring
Leading companies across a wide range of industries use the ExtraHop system to minimize downtime, optimize performance, and protect revenue and brand reputation. Read about ExtraHop customer successes.
Easy to Install, Maintain, and Manage
With automatic discovery and plug-and-play deployment, the ExtraHop system imposes none of the management burdens or system overhead associated with traditional APM tools.
- No expensive consultants
- No expensive per-server and per-seat licensing
- No months-long deployments
- No manual labeling, grouping, or classification of devices
- No agents to configure, certify, and deploy each time the application code changes
- No active probes
- No system overhead or network bandwidth consumption
- No unexpected incompatibilities or complications to threaten production applications
With exponential growth in IT complexity, traditional APM tools are increasingly untenable. Network-based APM is a much more flexible and elegant approach to monitoring application performance that offers IT Operations teams the visibility they need, with none of the cost or complexity that they do not need. Learn more about how the ExtraHop system compares to traditional APM products.