The document discusses the complexities of modern application architectures and introduces the Flopsar Suite, a real-time application performance management tool designed to efficiently identify and diagnose performance issues. Flopsar significantly reduces incident analysis time, provides comprehensive diagnostics, and supports integration with various components irrespective of technology. The tool is user-friendly, requires minimal training and maintenance, and is capable of handling high transaction rates while delivering timely insights into application performance.

1. Introduction

2. Today applications are complicated…
• Today applications' architecture is complex and processing is distributed.
SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) uses a constant interaction among
systems/applications and technologies:
• Customer portal (IBMWebsphere Portal, Jboss Portal, Oracle Portal, etc.)
• Proxy layer – Enterprise Service Bus (IBMWESB, Oracle ESB, Mule, etc.)
• Process Management layer (IBM Process Server, Oracle BPM, JBPM, etc.)
• “Back-end” (Oracle Weblogic Server, Jboss, Tomcat, IBM Websphere, etc.)
• In such systems it is difficult to answer the following questions:
• Do my customers have a satisfactory level of service?
• What customers have problems? What kind of problems and where?
• What is a current performance and availability of business processes?
• Do I satisfy SLA and if not, why?
• Do I solve my customers problems efficiently?
• Do I have a deep insight into my SOA components and IT infrastructure?
• Can I solve a problem quick enough before my customer will know?

3. …and problems are difficult
• Selective problems classification
• Performance problems
• Transactions consistency problems (etc. missing messages)
• Availability problems (hanging JVMs)
• Performance problems can be solved in many ways:
• Logs analysis
• Raising log levels or adding more logging
• Making use of some randomly selected applications from the Internet.
• Calling for help from some consulting companies
• Calling for support from software vendors
• Engaging our own resources.
• However, none of the mentioned ways guarantees quick and efficient
problem solution.

4. 40% of administrator work time
takes production problems analysis

5. The question is:
Is it possible to save this 40% work time, which is spent on repeatable and boring
tasks, and spend it something more interesting?
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try to analyze this or find root cause...
Traditional monitoring - dashboards

7. What is Flopsar Suite?
Flopsar Suite is a tool to manage application performance in extremely
busy production environments based on Java. Flopsar presents a
completely new and innovative approach to monitoring.
Key features:
• The fault detection or non-standard behavior of the application. Real-
time
• Full diagnostics with an indication of the causes of the problems
• 24/7/365 - Full history of processing along with performance analysis
• Intuitive graphical interface. Zero cost training
• Absolute confidence. No compromises. Best Performance APM.
• Zero cost of implementation and maintenance
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Flopsar (Flop Search And Rescue)

8. Most important feature
Shorten analysis time incidents and accidents by more than 99%.
On the basis of behavioral studies we have created a unique panel showing all requests from monitored
application servers. Because this panel usually shows thousands of requests, we called it Galaxy. With its help, the
operator with a single click is able to isolate the cause of failure or unexpected behavior of the application to the
component or resource responsible for the problem. The data presented in Galaxy dots are shown with a
maximum delay of 5 seconds after end of transaction.
Picture from http://variety.com/2015/film/news/john-nash-beautiful-
mind-dies-1201504401/

9. The x-axis is divided into 15 slots. On the right side
are visualized currently completed requests, far left
- requests completed 15 minutes ago.
The Y-axis shows the response
time of a single request.
Dot = single request. After selecting
a set of dots, you can make the
analysis
Technical details

10. 0.5 sec Galaxy view 500ms scale

11. 5 sec galaxy view 2500ms scale

12. 15 sec Galaxy view 15000ms scale

13. One minute view… and anomaly around 30 sec

14. Root cause

15. Details. Problem – poor SQL

16. One more problem…

17. And immediate root cause…

18. Technical details
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19. • Matrix Pattern • Streaming Pattern
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Galaxy – automatic failure detection

20. • Unique, acting on the real-time data spectrum analysis panel, showing
operators violated SLAs for business functions, including the causes of faults,
with possibility of deep tracing
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Automatic slowdown reporting, and their causes
at selected business functions

21. • Flopsar can Report any application server
engine parameters – for example:
• Number of messages in JMS queues
• Status of connection pooling
• Thread’s Status
• We also report efficiency of the Java Virtual
machine and Garbage Collector’s
mechanism, with potential memory leaks.
The state of the application server / JVM
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22. • Independent of the technology, agent allows rapid integration of Flopsar
with components that may affect on the performance, but are not written in
java.
• Using simple scripts the independent agent can collect data from the
operating system, filesystems, networks, databases, MQ, Tuxedo, or any
other components.
• Data is stored in a database and is correlated with other performance data.
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Independent agent

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• We do not loose information due to data aggregation. We save all traffic.
• In Flopsar Suite any report and can be easily created. In addition to the
standard set of built-in analytical reports for presenting historical data and
the export standard, we give users powerful capabilities - every piece of
data stored in the database Flopsar Suite can be obtained using the
supplied driver.
Data analysis and reporting

24. • A security - from the moment of their generation – until write to a database.
• Cluster proxies components, queue, multithreading, separate processes for
handling GUI / API
• Infrastructure code written in C. Performance and quality at every stage of
data processing is under our control.
• The incredibly high rate of transactions per second (TPS) – 20.000 metric /
second.
• This is the load we are able to handle on a single database instance, without
increasing message queues
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We don’t sell garbage
Best quality and performance

25. • Only 30 minutes should be spent on installation and configuration of Flopsar
Suite.
• In the thirty-fifth minute, a team maintaining applications and can draw
their first conclusions on causes of invalid operations or slowdowns. The tool
does not need maintenance and it can be reconfigured within minutes.
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Zero cost of maitenance and traning

26. • In the manufacturing phase of the system and its development
• Monitoring system
• Performance Analysis
• Analysis of production problems
• Capacity analysis
• Monitoring users
• During Go-Life or during the stabilization period
• During testing, the system load and "stress" tests
• Detecting Memory Leaks
• Verification of the results of performance tests
• Verification of integration tests
• Managing application code
• Profiling the application code
• Verification of functional tests
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Where Flopsar can be of help?

28. Contacto: www.tesacom.net
Marcelo Marinangeli
mmarinangeli@tesacom.net