OverviewSystem Shepherd® specializes in deep application and infrastructure instrumentation, giving you immediate visibility into application and system performance of online application and content delivery. Extensive correlation and analysis of current and historical information displays the kind of experience customers are receiving from your service.
Dashboard drag-and-drop components, called "gadgets", are added and customized to display virtually any performance or system metric throughout the operating system, network and application software stack.
WebWalk™ and StressWalk™, Absolute’s customer experience validation and stress testing products, can display their customer experience metrics on the System Shepherd® dashboard side-by-side with correlated application and system information. Business metrics can also be instrumented within the dashboard to provide a rich, in-depth view into any On Demand service or business.
Fast and Easy Setup
System Shepherd® provides a very flexible, fully customizable web delivered management dashboard. Performance and analytic information can be encapsulated into customer accessible SLA dashboards with targeted SLA metric data. Everything is configured through System Shepherd's online web interface, cutting installation time down to a few hours. Compare this to the weeks, sometimes months, required to learn and install on-premise enterprise management systems.
Deep Application Instrumentation
System Shepherd® provides an extensive library of metric “templates”, giving you full control over the instrumentation and data collection of performance metrics. Specialized application templates track application web services, API calls, log processing, and resource management.
Virtualization for SaaS
System Shepherd® adds the ability to look deep into the virtualization software, giving insight into the performance of multiple applications, web servers, databases and operating systems running across a single or multiple virtual machines. System Shepherd® quantifies the resource utilization of software operating within virtualized environments, easing performance tuning and resource management. System Shepherd® supports VMware ESX Hypervisor and will expand support to Xen, Hyper-V and Parallels Virtuoso in the near future.
Single and Complex Deployments
System Shepherd®’s highly scalable design means services are equally manageable, whether they source from single locations or from large, globally dispersed locations. Services requiring customer on-premise equipment are easily accommodated.
System Shepherd® is available through a growing network of infrastructure, hosting and managed services partners. Provided as an On Demand service, System Shepherd® expands our partners’ offerings to serve the explosive growth of the SaaS market. Contact Absolute Performance today about bringing System Shepherd® application performance management to your customers.