Hyperic’s free CloudStatus service delivers real-time, independent insight into the health and performance of the App Engine, giving users a greater level of confidence in the reliability, availability and scalability of web applications running on Google’s infrastructure.
"Monitoring helps maintain the health and performance of any application, including those powered by App Engine," said Paul McDonald, an App Engine product manager at Google. "We are excited to work with Hyperic to provide additional transparency to our service's real-time performance."
The addition of App Engine monitoring is designed to provide customers with the ability to obtain up-to-the-second perspectives on performance and network connectivity from both inside and outside the App Engine platform. The initial release will allow for continuous monitoring of the health and performance of major App Engine infrastructure, including the DataStore, Memcache, and global network connectivity. CloudStatus uses App Engine-specific management plug-ins to collect measurements that provide administrators and developers with unprecedented insight into the health of the App Engine platform.
As part of this development, Hyperic is also announcing the availability of the first cloud-specific management plug-in for its flagship product, Hyperic HQ. The new plug-in extends the full monitoring and management capabilities of Hyperic HQ to App Engine users, enabling them to examine the performance of their own custom applications running in the cloud. This plug-in is free for download on HyperForge http://support.hyperic.com/display/hypcomm/Cloud+Service+Plugins.
Service reliability can make or break businesses today. To ensure reliability and more completely understand and trust cloud service stability, customers need transparency into real performance and availability. CloudStatus addresses this need. A free, third-party hosted service, CloudStatus provides a comprehensive measure of service availability, latency and throughput for cloud-based infrastructure and application services. It allows users to obtain detailed, service-specific metrics on any of the monitored offerings, providing the perspective needed to determine the cause of any performance changes within their cloud-based applications.
“Cloud computing is changing the way businesses consume and deliver applications. Internet leaders like Google allow these businesses to eliminate the need to maintain their own infrastructure while also gaining affordable access to unlimited scalability,” said Javier Soltero, Hyperic CEO. “We’re thrilled to be working with vendors like Google to define the next generation of monitoring and management tools needed to assure performance and reliability for applications running in the cloud—and in the process help cloud computing realize its full potential.”
Hyperic is the leader in providing complete monitoring and management for web applications on premise, or in the cloud. Hyperic HQ automates and streamlines operations by allowing IT to track performance and event data, create complex alerts and escalations, run diagnostics, and issue control actions all from an easy-to-use web portal. Hyperic delivers web infrastructure management for providers and customers of cloud services including Amazon, Rackspace’s Mosso, and Coghead among others.
For more information on how CloudStatus will help bridge the management gap for companies with services in the cloud, download Hyperic’s white paper on the topic here: http://download.hyperic.com/pdf/Hyperic-WP-CloudStatus.pdf.
About Hyperic Inc.
Hyperic ( www.hyperic.com) provides open source monitoring and management software for all types of web applications, whether hosted in the cloud or on premise. Its software reduces the workload for operations teams at the world’s biggest web companies, including CNET Networks, hi5 Networks, Contegix, Rackspace’s Mosso, and more. Its award-winning Hyperic HQ software auto-discovers and updates asset inventory and allows operations teams to quickly pinpoint, correct, and prevent problems at every major layer—including hardware, networks, virtualization, cloud environments and applications. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hyperic is a private company funded by Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital. For more information on careers at Hyperic, see http://www.hyperic.com/about/careers.html.
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