Sentinel - Technical Benefits

Sentinel offers a number of benefits for technical staff, improving efficiency by ensuring that time is not wasted identifying the cause of a problem but is more usefully spent on resolving the issue.

Realistic simulation of user transactions

  • Sentinel simulates the whole business transaction
  • Realistic simulations with varied data and looping behaviour
  • Application response validation
  • A realistic representation of the user experience

View performance and system data simultaneously

  • View all important information on one screen
  • No need for additional applications and cross checking
  • Simple to use GUI
  • See the affected users, the problem and the underlying resources in one screen
  • Easily identify the cause of any performance problem

Monitor all relevant resources

  • Monitor any aspect of the underlying systems
  • Detailed monitoring enables speedy diagnosis of performance problems
  • Simulate user experience for varying locations and connection speeds
  • Place Sentinel agents in multiple locations and configure to run at different speeds
  • Identify where infrastructure problems occur and who is affected
  • Install components to suit specific requirements

Customized Alerting

  • Configure alerts to match your specifications and thresholds
  • Send alerts to different destinations using different transports
  • Set up alerts with alternative options for different times and days
  • Immediately notify the relevant person regardless of when an alert occurs

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Sentinel - 1 Minute Elevator Pitch

Realistic Monitoring
Realistic Monitoring

Sentinel should not be compared with inferior software and remote service offerings that are little more than hitting a home or search page every few minutes.
Sentinel performs all the steps of a business transaction that your users will do. For example, for an online bookstore, the Sentinel simulated transaction will search for books, look at a book's detail, maybe loop a few times, add it to a cart and proceed through checkout.

Diagnose Immediately
Diagnose Immediately

When alerted of a performance problem, the Sentinel GUI - displaying real-time information - allows the underlying root cause(s) of the problem to be quickly diagnosed. With this information, your internal technical teams can immediately start on correcting the issue.

Bespoke Alerting
Bespoke Alerting

The powerful Sentinel Alerting Facility allows alerts to be sent by different delivery transports, to different recipients, when one or more thresholds are breached.
The thresholds, which metrics are of interest, delivery groups and options are all totally configurable, including calendars so that different groups get an alert at different times of the day, or different days of the week/year.

Customised Analysis
Customised Analysis

The information provided by Sentinel uses the same totally customisable analysis engine that exists within StressTester™.
Therefore, the graphs and data tables displayed can be highly customised - ensuring the information your organisation needs is displayed in the format your people require.

Track SLAs and History
Track SLAs and History

As well as providing real-time current information, Sentinel also keeps all historical data.
Sentinel can thus be used to provide SLA statistics and also monitor historical trends; allowing understanding of which times of the day, week, month or year provide the best and worst response times, use the least and most network, etc.

Service or Software
Service or Software

Sentinel can be provided as completely outsourced service or software that your personnel can use and configure as required.

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