The doctor is in….and he’s helping businesses nurse their Java, .NET and PHP applications back to health. Since rolling out our free Health Check program about two months ago, we’ve been inundated with requests from businesses – of all sizes and types – interested in shoring up holes in their custom applications.
No application is perfect, and that’s been made abundantly clear during our analysis of more than 30 applications as part of our Health Check program. From a runny nose (chatty transactions) and a headache (slow tiers) to a cold (broken database) and a flu (application outage), our team of seasoned application engineers have been hard at work playing doctor.
A recent health check we performed for a legacy application revealed some particularly troubling symptoms. The credit risk management system consisted of a modern Java enterprise application wrapped around a legacy IBM mainframe system. Within a few days of deploying our application monitoring solution, we were able to uncover some alarming findings.
- One specific transaction, while only accounting for 5% of the overall application volume, was responsible for 50% of the total CPU usage. Armed with this knowledge, the customer’s development team was able to immediately address and re-code the transaction in question.
- Method level hotspot data revealed poorly implemented caching code which added unnecessary overhead to every single transaction entering the system.
- Certain limitations meant that the retrieval of scanned documents from the mainframe would take several minutes. The application road map now includes a plan to move document storage from the mainframe into a documentation management system.
- SQL tracking revealed parameterized statements were in not in use. A continuous improvement plan has since been developed which will capitalize on parameterized statements and boost application performance and security.
Fortunately, after a comprehensive evaluation, we were able to prescribe some medication (proactive application monitoring) that could treat and ultimately cure the symptoms associated with sub-par application performance.
From overall application health to transaction performance and SQL statements to hotspot analysis, our free Application Health Checks will tell you exactly how healthy (or unhealthy) your Java and .NET applications are.
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