Key Concepts

What is IntelliSense?

IntelliSense proactively monitors, analyzes and notifies you of potential outage conditions.

IntelliSense watches for patterns that can cause an outage and warns you before they actually do.  

With IntelliCheck there’s no need to set thresholds. IntelliCheck uses a built-in knowledge base to determine what conditions can cause outages or reduction in performance.

IntelliSense automates the process of root-cause analysis.  Applicare automatically detects server failure conditions in production and auto-analyzes server state to generate a root-cause analysis report instantly. IntelliSense will generate an e-mail that not only tells you that what  failed, but that also tells you why.

In this way you get all of the information you need even though the incident may have happened in the middle of the night while you were sleeping.  Applicare analyzes thousands of matrices almost instantly and drills down to the transaction level in determining the root-cause. It  identifies the culprit transactions, exact code and/or SQLs. 

On top of it, IntelliSense is extremely un-intrusive way to monitor. The IntelliSense technology reduces overhead, because it is designed from ground up with high performance and least impact in mind. The overhead in most cases is so low that it is almost immeasurable.

What is an Analyzer?

Analyzers provide historical views of crucial monitored objects state information.

Applicare automatically persists key information about monitored object's state for historical analysis. It provides you with intuitive and extremely easy-to-use data-mining capabilities. Starting with a 1-day view of a server's performance, you can drill down to a particular time frame in a matter of seconds

What is an Explorer?

Explorers make JMX, SNMP and other external information easily accessible directly within the Applicare Console.

Although servers expose a lot of useful data through JMX, it is not in an easy-to-use format. Applicare provides an easy-to-use interface for browsing MBeans information. Applicare explorers make JMX information of all monitored servers accessible directly within Applicare Console, without causing you to have to browse through many JSP pages to obtain the same.

What is a Sensor?

Sensors save JMX, SNMP and other external information values for  graphical analysis, reporting and alerting over time.

Applicare allows you to create sensors on any property. A sensor is itself a property whose value is persisted at a defined interval. Applicare provides an easy-to-use interface to graphically analyze data accumulated by Applicare sensors.