Overview

Orion APM brings powerful monitoring, alerting, and reporting capabilities to applications and servers. Easily discover your applications and get the visibility you need into application performance and the underlying operating systems and servers they run on.

To really understand what’s happening with your applications, you need a complete view of performance that also gives you insight into the underlying network. Now that 99% of business-critical applications are on the network, managing your apps means getting complete visibility into the network and hardware that supports them. And you need to get it affordably and quickly – meaning no agents, no expensive consultants, and no long deployments.

Meet Orion Application Performance Monitor (APM). It installs in less than an hour to deliver enterprise-class, agentless, application monitoring for your critical applications and servers. Plus, as a module of Orion Network Performance Monitor, Orion APM presents application monitoring data alongside comprehensive performance information for your network infrastructure, giving you a complete picture of network health that is intuitive, unified, and easy to understand.

Orion APM enables you to quickly isolate performance issues with business-critical applications – before they affect your end users.

Features

Community Content Sync

• Search, deploy, and share user-generated application monitor templates and scripts
• Access the latest application monitor templates directly from the Orion APM interface
• Ensure you are correctly monitoring your mission-critical applications by leveraging community best practices

User-Experience Monitors

• Measure application performance from an end-user’s perspective
• Ensure a high Quality of Experience (QoE)
• Leverage out-of-the-box SaaS monitoring and support for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Download Speed, DNS, Microsoft® SQL Server®, Oracle®, and other ODBC databases

Dynamic Templates

• Modify a single template and instantly update monitoring settings throughout your network
• Quickly adjust global threshold settings to ensure your applications are optimally configured

Application Discovery Engine

• Automatically scan your network and select the critical applications you wish to monitor
• Spend less time configuring your monitoring solution and more time optimizing your application performance

Universal WMI Performance Monitors

• Remotely monitor WMI performance counters through Orion APM
• Easily add WMI performance counters through a simple, graphical interface

Open Source Script Processor

• Leverage open-source Nagios® scripts to save time and to facilitate migration to APM
• Convert any Nagios script into a format that Orion APM can use to schedule and run jobs
• Expand monitoring of Unix and Linux systems through your own Nagios scripts or those in third-party script libraries

Windows and Linux Script Monitors

• Run your own Windows, Linux, or Unix scripts though Orion APM
• Use APM to schedule script execution, and report and alert on their output

Network Services and Port Monitoring

• Actively monitor the availability of any port on your network
• Monitor the responsiveness of critical network services with out-of-the-box monitors for DNS, IMAP4, POP3, and more

Performance Warning System

• Receive proactive notifications when performance thresholds are crossed
• Prevent degradation of application performance
• Use pre-defined threshold levels or define your own

Advance Application Alerting

• Configure alerts for correlated events (alert if X and Y are true)
• Set up alerts for sustained conditions (alert if Y is true for more than 5 minutes)
• Escalate alerts automatically
• Keep your sanity by only getting alerts for real issues

Out-of-the-Box Application Reporting

• Access numerous built-in application and server reports
• Customize built-in application reports with a few mouse clicks
• Create completely custom network reports using SQL commands

Application Monitor Wizard

• Build your own application monitors in minutes using a step-by-step wizard
• Leverage out-of-the-box templates with predefined thresholds

Network Fault and Performance Integration

• View performance monitoring data for network devices, applications, and servers in a single, unified console
• Visually track, alert, and report on the overall health of the application infrastructure
• Quickly determine whether a problem stems for an application error or a network issue

Application Performance Maps

• Leverage an open MS SQL database
• Rely on Windows-based polling engines
• Utilize industry-standard MIBs

Server Statistic Browser

• Monitor key health statistics on virtually any server on your network
• Easily create WMI performance counters, processes, and service component monitors