Overview
Flow maps are a dynamic visual representation of components and activities within the monitored application environment. It is a representation of ND tiers, non-ND tiers, IPs, business transactions between tiers and IPs, and a transaction scorecard. It also contains connection lines that represent connections between components (Tier/IP etc.) in the flow map.
Layout
The layout of the flow map consists of:
- ND tiers, Non-ND tiers (both access log-based and non-access log-based).
- Tier details, such as tier name, TPS, response time, and CPU utilization, type of tier representation by an icon (for example, – java/dot net, and so on).
- Tier health, server health, and Instance health are based on alerts.
Discovery of Tier and IPs
Cavisson facilitates auto-discovery of all different components of your application ecosystem by automatically mapping the servers along with their integration points and the link between them to identify the overall data flow of your application easily.
This approach is highly effective for large scale and distributed environments where there are constant moving parts and manually adding each application/web server or node can lead to excessive overhead.
Alongside the auto-discovery feature, the various nodes are further classified based on the alerts generated on each and the baseline to monitor CPU utilization, transaction rate, and response times. These pre-bundled baselines are an effective measure of the health of your application with a further option to change these baselines according to your requirements.
Features
There are the following features of a flow map:
- Visual representation of monitored application Tiers with KPI metrics.
- ND Enabled Tiers
- Non-ND Tiers
- Integration Points (DB, HTTP)
- Tier and Instance Level