SteelCentral AppResponse

Network-Based Application Performance Management (APM)

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Packets provide definitive answers

The network is the only thing that connects all digital transactions. SteelCentral™ AppResponse delivers full stack application analysis—from packets to pages – letting you observe all network and application interactions as they cross the wire. Using powerful network and application analytics and flexible workflows, AppResponse speeds problem diagnosis and resolution, helping you get to answers fast.

Ubiquitous Visibility

Deploy anywhere and everywhere you need – on-premises, virtual, or AWS or Azure cloud – SteelCentral is designed to meet your hybrid monitoring needs with network forensics, application analytics, and end-user experience monitoring in a single solution.

Actionable Insight

There’s a saying that packets are the ultimate source of truth. AppResponse captures and stores all packets, all the time at 1 minute granularity, so the details are always there when you need them.

Fast Answers

Built-in policies automatically highlight brewing problems as they are occurring, so you can get ahead of them before they become full-blown incidents. Streamlined troubleshooting workflows and high-definition (HD) data help you determine answers quickly – typically in minutes.

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Rich App Analysis

Modular in design, SteelCentral AppResponse lets you select the analysis capabilities you need:

Network forensics – Included with your appliance, you get advanced packet analysis with 1-second granular displays, microsecond resolution, and deep packet inspection (DPI) of more than 2000+ applications.

Application metrics – Understand all TCP and UDP applications and their corresponding metrics. Our rich response time analysis lets you determine in a glance if slowdowns are the result of the network, server, or client.

Web transaction analysis – Understand web application performance in real time. Monitor end-user experience for web pages as well as page errors, page rates, unique users, etc. for easy analysis of customer-facing web apps.

Database analysis – Monitor database transactions and user activity 24x7. AppResponse supports all major SQL databases on all network addresses and ports and acquires database sessions, SQL queries, stats and timing info.

Unified Communications analysis – Understand the interaction of voice and data traffic with real-time and historical analysis of voice and video call performance plus the ability to drill into the underlying problem.

Citrix analysis – Correlate front-end user sessions to back-end transactions to help you understand where and why problems are occurring in Citrix Virtual App and Desktop (formerly XenApp / XenDesktop).

Reduce the finger pointing

Because AppResponse can be used by many roles within IT —NetOps, security, App Ops, IT management, and line of business—to reduce the finger-pointing. By using a common data set, all team members are on the same page when troubleshooting Sev-1 issues during cross-functional “tiger” team meetings. And, who knows, it might just eliminate them altogether!