Distributed systems exponentially increase the risk of failure by liquidating application silos into multiple services scattered across a network. Therefore a 24x7 production SOA system demands comprehensive system-wide tracking and operational visibility to minimize failures and downtime.

AmberPoint delivers upon this requirement by providing a bird’s-eye-view into your entire SOA network. It makes critical operational information available at a glance. Operators can use AmberPoint to identify network hotspots, quickly understand their impact and rectify issues proactively.

AmberPoint is also uniquely positioned to provide real-time business-level visibility into SOA networks. By keeping track of key business indicators (such as number of orders processed, total volume of orders, etc.) in real-time, AmberPoint helps business managers understand the IT risk in business terms.

Thus, AmberPoint offers enterprises the ability to align IT and business objectives.

AmberPoint discovers and visualizes the service network to simplify
the management of complex environments.

Service and Infrastructure Discovery
AmberPoint provides comprehensive capabilities to ease the lifecycle and configuration management burden on service deployment teams.

• Model and represent all service containers in your SOA
• Auto-discover services resident on each container
• Auto-discover deployment types and characteristics
• Auto-track changes to service deployments
• Classify containers and services by lifecycle stage

Service Network Discovery
AmberPoint provides an informative view of the service network and its live relationships to help manage dependencies in complex business systems:

• Auto-discovers service interdependencies and relationships
• Does not require insertion of headers into messages or modifications to code
• Works with all types of services including Java and .NET

Network Visualization and Dependency Analysis
Visualizes both the logical and the physical service network end-to-end in a browser-based UI for universal reach:

• Service-to-service, endpoint-to-endpoint and operation-to-operation message flow tracking
• Real-time throughput and availability of each service node
• Color-coded graph for rapid identification of operational issues
• Zoom into the network to graphically assess service dependencies and outage impact
• Drill-down to service endpoint structure to understand service and endpoint relationships

Tracking across Multiple Application & Technology Layers
AmberPoint runtime governance solutions extend across the entire SOA stack, from client applications to the back-end system components, and across all types of message and transport protocols.

• Support for a wide range of SOA-related components, including databases, JMS and MQ messaging systems, EJB-based applications, and ESBs
• Visibility into virtually any type of component, including hardware appliances, new transport protocols, and home-grown solutions.
• True end-to-end SOA visibility by delivering information on dependencies, performance, service levels, and exceptions.

Custom Instrumentation & Business Dashboards
AmberPoint provides sophisticated instrumentation capabilities and a rich library of widgets to capture and visualize any business metric based on content of messages flowing through the SOA. Examples include key properties—such as order totals or purchase amounts—aggregated across multiple business flows.

• Built-in instruments for monitoring real-time business-centric information
• Advanced monitoring criteria built using instruments including counter, average, total, text, amount and condition
• Indexed instruments enable advanced instrument segmentation
• Fully customizable dashboards for real-time visualization of instruments

AmberPoint Business Dashboards