AppFirst Upgrades Cloud Management for Amazon, Rackspace, Others 
AppFirst is set to release an upgrade to its SaaS-based cloud monitoring and management solution, offering users deeper integration with leading cloud providers – including Amazon, SoftLayer, GoGrid and Rackspace. The upgrade sports customizable dashboarding for real-time and customizable monitoring, management and views.
AppFirst is set to release an upgrade to its SaaS-based cloud monitoring and management solution, offering users deeper integration with leading cloud providers – including Amazon, SoftLayer, GoGrid and Rackspace.
The upgrade sports customizable dashboarding for real-time and customizable monitoring, management and views.
“We’ve heard loud and clear through our rapid customer adoption that… managing and monitoring cloud servers is a critical business component for companies around the world,” said AppFirst president and CEO David Roth in a statement from the company’s blog. “A management platform built entirely as SaaS is the best model to power the continued growth and success of the cloud computing industry.”
The latest upgrades are built on AppFirst Professional and AppFirst Basic core technology, which allows users to quickly add, remove and manage cloud servers using the AppFirst interface.
AppFirst’s patent-pending technology eliminates the need to use statistical methods to isolate causes of performance degradation. AppFirst captures everything occurring in the entire application, Roth said. The company’s Deterministic Root Cause feature lets users drive right to the root cause on each and every incident, eliminating the time it takes to track down the source of an issue.
AppFirst installs collectors on servers automatically, and gathers data with less than 1% CPU overhead. Once a collector begins capturing real-time data, each server can be managed and monitored right from the AppFirst dashboard.
The AppFirst interface dashboard presents the status of servers and applications at all times with a consolidated view of all your servers. The dashboard’s simple graphs and charts provide up-to-the-minute customizable data and views.
“Old methods of monitoring provide ample opportunity for the proposed solution to be wrong and have a narrow focus of polling for data on a few components of an application or are language runtime specific, which means users are not seeing everything across the application stack,” Roth said in his AppFirst blog.
The AppFirst upgrade follows Rackspace’s recent acquisition of CloudKick, another cloud monitoring and management firm.
