Apache Monitoring with eG Enterprise

Performance of Apache Web Servers is Critical

The Apache web server is at the heart of IT infrastructures in various domains - Healthcare, Banking, Trading, Logistics, etc. To ensure scalability and high performance, most web sites are being architected to use a multi-tier model. In such architectures, the Apache web server plays a pivotal role since all users to the other tiers are routed via the web server and so any slowdown or problem in the web server tier adversely impacts the end user experience.

The availability of a web site and the response time for user accesses to the site are the most critical metrics of web performance. Both these metrics may vary depending from one website to another and even from one transaction to another. Today’s Apache monitor must be able to report the availability and response time for individual user transactions to a web site.

eG Enterprise: Combined Active and Passive Monitoring of Apache Web Servers for Top Performance

eG Enterprise adopts a unique two-pronged approach for web transaction monitoring. The external agent uses request emulation to assess the user experience from different locations. By doing so, the external agent captures the effect of the network latency and the server-side processing time on the end user experience.

To quantify the server processing times for real user requests (not emulated requests), the eG internal agent deploys a proprietary web-adapter technology. This technology enhances Apache web servers with the capability to track HTTP/HTTPS requests to a web server and the corresponding responses. For each transaction that is configured for monitoring, the web adapter analyzes the request URLs and responses to report various metrics relating to individual web transactions in real-time.

eG agents are able to monitor Java (Servlets, EJB, JSPs) and other non-Java implementations (ASP, PHP, CGI, etc.) as well. Since it is able to monitor real-user transactions to web servers in real-time, eG Enterprise can proactively monitor and quantify all anomalies that may occur in a web infrastructure.

The ability to offer real-time monitoring of 100% of the real user transactions, without the need for explicit, expensive logging is a key distinguishing feature of eG Enterprise's Apache monitoring capabilities. This one-of-a-kind monitoring capability supports other popular web servers as well.

What the eG Apache Performance Monitor Reveals

Benefits of the eG Apache Performance Monitoring Solution

• Through end to end monitoring obtain deep insights into the TRUE end user experience
• Receive proactive, real-time alerts of server availability and performance problems and get to know of any anomalies before they impact the business service performance
• Analyze and correlate web site performance in context - taking into account the network, middleware and database performance
• Historical analysis and trending of web services usage enables effective capacity planning

Why eG? One Monitor to Manage All of IT.

• eG Enterprise is the only single pane-of-glass, virtualization-aware, auto-diagnostic IT infrastructure performance monitor
• Gain actionable answers to performance issues, wherever they originate, from application code to bare metal
• Understand the impact of infrastructure issues on application performance and user experience
• Unify IT performance monitoring, alerting, diagnosing, reporting, and capacity-planning in a single console
• Ensure a great user experience and dramatically improve IT efficiency
• Benefit from flexible deployment options (on-premises and SaaS) and IT monitoring approaches (agentless and agent-based)