Middleware Monitoring as a Service is Available for Apache Kafka

We were excited to launch our new Apache Kafka monitoring as a hybrid service this week. Kafka is the first of several middleware integration technologies to be released for monitoring with the new RTView Cloud for Middleware Monitoring service. SL will announce added support […]

Be Proactive – Be the IT Superhero!

You build, deploy and/or support “big money” applications at your company. Does the thought of Sev 1 incidents affecting those applications keep you up at night? Do your nightmares involve incident alarms going off, faces of angry bosses and getting caught with no quick […]

SL RTView Enables Easier Monitoring of Solace Hybrid Cloud Deployments

SL and Solace have been working together for over a year now to perfect a monitoring solution for both Solace messaging appliances and Solace VMRs.  Solace monitoring with RTView®is now available for a free 30-day trial as an Amazon AMI download. Monitoring Solace VMRs in […]

The New Wave of Splunk Collaboration

Have you ever found the perfect solution to your problem – and then be told that you can’t use that solution because YOUR company uses a DIFFERENT solution? One that doesn’t address YOUR particular problem? We hear that a lot. And it makes us […]

BYOD – Bring Your Own Data to the RTView Sandbox

In our last two blog posts, we’ve talked about how you can start a free trial. With no installation. Using our hosted, pre-configured sandbox environments for TIBCO, Oracle or IBM. We discussed extending your RTView Sandbox to include additional technologies relevant to YOUR environment, […]

Resource Monitoring vs. Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Is middleware resource monitoring the same thing as APM? No – but it is highly complementary with APM and organizations generally need both for complex, large-scale application environments that depend on middleware. End to end resource monitoring is fundamentally different. We see four general […]

Monitor TIBCO BusinessWorks in Splunk (with RTView)

Just a quick update for you Splunk users out there. We have made significant progress on our RTView integration with Splunk – allowing users to monitor TIBCO BusinessWorks in Splunk. We’ve created a plug-in that monitors TIBCO BusinessWorks performance and availability by leveraging RTView’s backend […]

Downtime Events Take Center Stage

It’s pretty obvious that when your applications go down, they often cost you money. Lots of money according to a recent report from analyst firm Quocirca titled Master of Machines III – Mitigating the Impact of Critical IT Events. Pete Goldin of APMdigest provided […]

When is it too early to think about monitoring?

Originally Published on APMdigest In a word, “NEVER”. I’ve heard people say that they are super busy with production deployments and fast-moving projects. They haven’t had much time to think about a performance monitoring strategy for their new applications. But waiting until your applications […]

What the heck is a BusinessWorks 6 AppSlice anyway?

That’s what a colleague asked when creating some new materials to promote our new TIBCO BusinessWorks 6 monitoring capabilities within RTView Enterprise Monitor® and TIBCO® RTView® Monitor for BusinessWorks System. More importantly, “What the heck is an AppSlice used for”? We know that an […]

Don’t forget about the TIBCO Adapters. We didn’t.

In our quest to expand visibility into the TIBCO world, we are adding  monitoring for TIBCO Adapters to our lineup of solution packages. Monitoring TIBCO-powered applications may start with BusinessWorks and EMS performance, but it doesn’t end there.  Although these are the main pieces that […]

Integrating RTView Metrics and Alerts with Splunk

TIBCO middleware is at the heart of many mission-critical applications, but options for bringing TIBCO performance metrics into Splunk have been very limited. SL, the defacto leader in TIBCO performance monitoring, has created an integration allowing Splunk to import performance data from the most […]