Introducing Polaris!

Ordinary monitoring products offer a variety of out-of-the-box metrics and alerts, but most of the time, your IT staff has already developed custom scripts that are tailored for monitoring your custom applications and databases. In addition to offering out-of-the-box metrics and alert functionality, Polaris also provides an easy-to-use platform where you can set up your own custom metric and alert definitions.

Part I - Getting Started

When it comes to monitoring IT environments, most organizations fall in one of three categories: They are either BLIND and not collecting any data on their IT infrastructure, COLOR BLIND and monitoring their infrastructure, but not collecting the right data, or BLINDED BY THE LIGHT and collecting so much data that they can’t see a clear picture to make the informed business decisions. Watch this video to see how Polaris can help you collect the right data and put it to use as we give you a high level overview of what Polaris can do for you!

Part II - Architecture

Ordinary monitoring products offer a variety of out-of-the-box metrics and alerts, but most of the time, your IT staff has already developed custom scripts that are tailored for monitoring your custom applications and databases. In addition to offering out-of-the-box metrics and alert functionality, Polaris also provides an easy-to-use platform where you can set up your own custom metric and alert definitions.

Part III - Creating Tasks

In this video, we will take a look at a few example tasks that Polaris is capable of running including a CPU Metric Collection Task, an API Call Task to check the health of a weblogic server, a custom, user-defined SQL Task to monitor replication lag, and a Log Stream Task to monitor an IVR system. No matter what your environment looks like, Polaris is capable of collecting the metrics you need and alerting when needed to help achieve your SLAs and plan for the future.

Part IV - Analyses and Dashboarding

In this video, we will explore different ways that Polaris uses to visualize metrics and other collected data in order to help you make sense of it. Using the features demonstrated in this video, you can diagnose problems in minutes with easy to create advanced visualizations. Polaris can help you make capacity planning, forecasting, trend analysis and SLA management a breeze.

Part V - Noise Reduction

In this video, we'll go over a features that will make all of your on-call support staff stand up and cheer… Noise Reduction. By looking at user-defined rules and historical data, Polaris can determine when an alert is truly critical and requires human intervention. So, when your development environment experiences a 'hiccup' at 2:00AM, your on-call support staff are not going to get woken up for a problem that could have waited until normal business hours.

Part VI - Self Healing & Course Correct

In this video, we will explore Polaris' Automated Self Healing Actions which can be used as a response to alerts generated by Polaris. Using this feature frees your personnel from manually responding to mundane tasks.