Solarwinds Orion APM - DBL Software Limited - IT Management, Control and Monitoring Software

Application Performance Monitor ensures that your server-based applications achieve low-latency and peak performance.

Application Performance Monitor - Template-Driven Application Monitoring

APM - Template-Driven Application Monitoring

Create and share Application Monitor Templates
Define custom groups of monitors and settings that can be applied to multiple servers
Save time by eliminating repetitive configuration tasks

Orion APM saves you time by employing centralized Application Monitor Templates that combine groups of monitors and settings. Orion APM ships with Application Monitor Templates for popular applications, such as Microsoft® Exchange, Microsoft IIS, and Apache, or you can easily create your own custom monitoring templates with just a few mouse clicks.

Once templates are established, they can be applied to multiple servers, eliminating the need to perform repetitive configuration tasks for similar applications and servers. Plus, changes made to a template automatically propagate throughout your network, ensuring that monitoring is updated for all systems that rely on the modified template. For example, a change to the threshold settings for mail queue length in your Exchange monitor template will automatically and immediately be applied to all of your monitored Exchange servers.

In addition, Orion APM templates are portable, and can be easily downloaded and shared with the SolarWinds community on Thwack. Visit Thwack today to see the Application Monitor Templates that are currently available.

Application Performance Monitor - AppBuilder Wizzard

Build your own application monitors in minutes using a step-by-step wizard
Monitor critical statistics, services, and processes on Windows, Linux, and Unix servers
Orion APM delivers a simple step-by-step wizard that makes it fast and easy to gain visibility into the performance of your servers. To get started, simply enter the IP address of any server on your network and Orion APM will automatically retrieve a list of available statistics to monitor. Next, select the statistics you want to monitor, or choose an Application Monitor Template.

Application monitors work on Windows®, Linux, and Unix servers and can include component monitors for services, processes, ports, scripts, and WMI performance counters

Application Performance Monitor - Community Content Library

Browse, download, and share Application Monitor Templates and scripts on Thwack
Access the latest Application Monitor Templates directly from the Orion APM interface
Connect to a global network of thousands of IT professionals
Get alerts when new templates are posted

With Orion APM, you can leverage the SolarWinds online community, Thwack, by implementing Application Monitor Templates and scripts created by other users. By deploying Orion APM and using Thwack to exchange resources with other users, you’ll be joining a community of more than 17,000 IT professionals who can help make your job easier.

Orion APM’s interactive web console offers direct links to browse, download, and share templates and scripts on Thwack, making it easy for community members to benefit from each other’s custom monitors and saving everyone valuable time. This time-saving feature allows you to quickly begin monitoring your applications without requiring you to create custom monitors for your environment. Orion APM will even alert you when new templates are posted, so you can easily expand your monitoring capabilities and try new things!

Application Performance Monitor - Intuitive Orion 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

Orion APM extends the performance monitoring capabilities of Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) to applications and servers, and presents this critical information alongside network performance statistics through an integrated web console. Not only will you get a single pane of glass for all of your monitoring data, you’ll also love the intuitive charts, graphs, tables, alerting, Top Ten lists, and reporting views that Orion APM shares with Orion NPM.

By delivering an integrated, unified console, APM enables you to visually track the overall health of the application infrastructure and quickly troubleshoot issues by identifying whether the problem stems from an application error or a network issue.

With Orion APM, you won’t have to run multiple point products or flip between screens to view the application and network data you need to troubleshoot problems.

Application Performance Monitor - 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, DNS, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle®, and other ODBC databases

Orion APM enables you to measure application performance from an end user’s perspective with out-of-the-box SaaS monitoring and support for HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle®, and other ODBC databases. This Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement gives you a heads up on problems and helps ensure that your users are happy with the performance of the applications that they rely on.

Consider the case of an online retailer. Its website is its lifeblood. Ensuring that web pages are available and performing well is critical, as downtime means immediate loss of revenue. APM ensures that web servers are up and running, providing immediate alerts if a host server crashes, a server-side error occurs, or a broken link is found.

Additionally, APM can verify that web content is being served up correctly, including checking for a specific price on a particular product page. APM can even notify an administrator of unauthorized changes to the pricing structure on the web site. Together, these features ensure not only the health, but also the accuracy of the web infrastructure.

Application Performance Monitor - Out-of-the-Box Agentless Monitoring

Eliminate concerns about drag on your network and unnecessary maintenance with agentless monitoring
Spend time monitoring your applications, not setting up monitoring services
Save time with out-of-the-box Application Monitor Templates for common servers, services, and databases

Orion APM does not require you to install agents, which makes deployment and maintenance a breeze – not to mention eliminating any concerns about drag on your network. While alternative application monitoring solutions require deploying agents on each server, Orion APM remotely collects key health statistics, enabling you to quickly begin monitoring your entire IT infrastructure from a central console.

Plus, with Orion APM’s out-of-the-box monitoring templates and end-user-experience monitors, you will be up and running in just minutes. Out-of-the-box coverage includes Microsoft® Exchange, IIS, Active Directory®, Apache, and user-experience monitors for HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and other ODBC databases.

Application Performance Monitor - 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

A huge and growing collection of Nagios scripts is used globally to monitor thousands of network services; and we know that many of you rely on these open-source scripts for tasks like confirming the completion of daily backups.

That’s why we built a script processor into Orion APM that enables you to convert any Nagios script into a format that Orion APM can use to schedule and run jobs and report on results. Now you can leverage your own Nagios scripts or those in third-party script libraries to extend Orion APM’s monitoring coverage.

Application Performance Monitor - Universal WMI Performance Monitors

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

Orion APM makes it easy for you to remotely monitor WMI performance counters, so that you can identify and resolve application issues before users are impacted. Adding WMI monitors is as simple as clicking on a server icon, browsing the list of available counters, and selecting the ones you would like to add.

Application Performance Monitor - 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

If Orion APM detects a downward decline in application performance, you’ll be immediately alerted before the situation escalates into a disaster. Orion APM relies on pre-configured or user-defined performance thresholds and sends alerts when these thresholds are crossed.

Four tiers of thresholds can be established (good, warning, critical, and down) to help you quickly assess the difference between a system that is up, but performing poorly, and a system that is about to fail.

Application Performance Monitor - 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

If you have written your own Windows, Linux, or Unix scripts to monitor application health indicators that are not available through SNMP or WMI, you can now integrate these into Orion APM. With just a few clicks, you can schedule their execution and report and alert on their output.

Application Performance Monitor - 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

Orion APM actively monitors availability and responsiveness of critical network services with out-of-the-box monitors for DNS (over TCP and UDP), HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, and NNTP.

Additionally, Orion APM allows you to create customized TCP port monitors to verify network-based availability and responsiveness of applications. With these capabilities, you can rest assured that you will be the first to know about network service outages and performance bottlenecks.

Application Performance Monitor - 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

Orion APM’s advanced reporting engine enables you to quickly generate custom reports for application performance and server availability. These reports can be printed or viewed on the web, or you can schedule reports to be generated and delivered by email automatically.

Orion APM offers a number of built-in reports that make it quick and easy to report on application and server performance over specific time periods. A simple interface facilitates customizing these built-in reports and also allows the creation of completely customized reports using SQL commands. Reports can even be modified to limit the information contained in the report by user profile, making it easy to generate reports for specific departments or recipients.

Orion's Report Writer is simple to use and walks you through the process of either using an existing report or creating a custom report from scratch. These reports help you monitor availability, performance, and utilization statistics, as well as project future trends and capacity needs.

Application Performance Monitor - Advanced 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

Orion APM enables you to quickly and easily configure powerful alert engines to respond to hundreds of different scenarios, including multiple condition checks. These alerts help you recognize and correct issues before your users experience performance degradation or availability issues. Additionally, Orion can automatically escalate alerts until a problem is resolved or acknowledged.

Orion includes more than sixteen built-in alert delivery methods and responses, including email, pages, SNMP traps, text-to-speech, syslog messages, and the launching of an external application.