Application Performance Management for IT Operations Teams

The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system is a passive network appliance built to ensure that business-critical transactions do not fail. Performing real-time analysis of application transactions across the network, web, middleware, database, and storage tiers, the ExtraHop system accelerates troubleshooting efforts and proactively warns of potential problems.

The health and performance information needed to manage growing IT complexity is on the wire. The ExtraHop system leverages recent gains in processing power and storage capacity to extract this valuable information and deliver a level of visibility and analysis that only recently has become feasible. While many tools rely on legacy technologies, such as NetFlow collection, SNMP polling, or TCP-header inspection, the ExtraHop system performs full-stream reassembly and full content analysis, processing tens of thousands of transactions simultaneously and in real time. Read more about the ExtraHop Application Performance Management (APM) solution.

The massively scalable ExtraHop system provides the following benefits:

1. End-to-end, contextual visibility across networks, applications, databases, and storage arrays
2. Simultaneous real-time analysis of all transactions
3. Trend-based alerting and proactive early warning for potential problems

How it Works The ExtraHop system performs sophisticated network-traffic analysis to ensure that business-critical transactions do not fail. While many tools rely on legacy technologies, such as NetFlow collection, SNMP polling, custom performance agents, or active service checks, the ExtraHop system performs full-stream reassembly and full content analysis to extract and archive valuable performance and health metrics in a real-time datastore.

The ExtraHop system provides the following key features:

•  Enterprise Scalability
•  Device Auto-Discovery
•  Broad-Based L7 Content Analysis
•  Advanced TCP Analysis
•  Rich Browser-Based User Interface
•  Application Activity Maps
•  Dynamic Groups
•  One-Click Reporting
•  Sophisticated Alerting Engine

Hardware Platforms ExtraHop offers two hardware platforms and one virtual appliance.

• The EH2000 is an entry level system that processes up to 1Gbps of traffic and provides real-time analysis.
• The EH5000 system is built for more demanding enterprise environments and processes up to 10Gbps of traffic, providing real-time analysis.
• The EH1000v virtual appliance analyzes up to 1Gbps of traffic.
• The ExtraHop Central Manager provides centralized management and reporting across multiple distributed ExtraHop systems.