(First in a Five-Part Blog Series) One of the first tools that network administrators learn is often the traceroute. Hop-by-hop, it analyzes latencies and is a quick — if primitive — way to identify trouble spots in your network. It … Continue reading
Tag Archives: transaction tracing
Traveling Transaction Modeling
Over the past few years, traveling has become a major part of my life. I travel a lot for business, so I’m on the road a good chunk of the time. One of the most interesting (and daunting) things about … Continue reading
Transaction Monitoring Software: Jargon Proliferation
This article on the jargon proliferation within the transaction monitoring discipline reviews common phrases used today to describe how to link business and IT. There are several ways to trace a transaction. Although different approaches to transaction tracing may yield different outcomes, … Continue reading
Transaction Management–The Importance of Understanding the Transaction Behavior Model
One of my chores at home as a husband is doing the food shopping (I also take out the trash, play with the kids, and even cook Saturday evening dinner – truly husband of the year!). Food shopping should actually … Continue reading
SharePath Features
SharePath is an innovative Business Transaction Management (BTM) platform based on patent pending technology that automates the monitoring and management of transactions across all tiers of an application. SharePath’s unique technology offers the following features and benefits: SharePath tracks transactions … Continue reading
Java Bytecode Instrumentation Limitations
A real transaction management product needs to follow through the transaction between different types of application-related components such as proxies, Web servers, app servers (Java and non-Java), message brokers, queues, databases and so forth. In order to do that, you … Continue reading
Java Bytecode Instrumentation and Transaction Tracing
Imagine you want to debug your code, or better yet, profile your code during run time. Bytecode instrumentation (BCI) (see my last post) is a perfect solution, since by using BCI an external tool can add code to every beginning … Continue reading
Java Bytecode Instrumentation: An Introduction
This post is not a usual one since I simply want to address a technical question: “what is Java bytecode instrumentation (BCI)” and also explain what can and can’t be done with BCI regarding the problem of transaction tracing. It’s just … Continue reading
New Webinars on Transaction Management and Capacity Planning
Last month we announced a partnership with Metron to provide advanced solutions for transaction-based capacity planning. To showcase our combined offering, we’re holding two live Webinars in October. Continue reading
Video Series Episode 3 – IT Reliability
My previous 2 posts discuss the new videos we have posted to YouTube about how to solve the end-to-end transaction tracing problem. Thinking about it some more, I doubt there’s another company in our space that was founded by guys that actually … Continue reading