What is FactFinder?

BlueStripe FactFinder is a next generation Application Performance Management solution (APM 2.0) that helps companies manage distributed applications across any infrastructure—physical, virtual, or cloud.

FactFinder provides 24/7 application system monitoring, problem isolation, and proactive application management for any TCP-based application running on MS Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, or AIX. It enables users to quickly identify what makes up an application, where application service requests go, and where requests spend time and why.

FactFinder helps companies:

• Quickly isolate, monitor, and generate alerts for discrete applications
• Quickly identify, isolate, and resolve application performance issues
• Capture benchmarks to use for comparison before and after application changes, deployments, and platform changes
• Generate real-time load curve analysis for application scaling forecasting

How Does it Work?

The FactFinder solution consists of two components: the FactFinder Console and BlueStripe Collectors. Collectors are operating system-level agents that run as a background service on one or more machines in the application infrastructure, gathering application structure performance metrics. The FactFinder Console gathers, stores, and analyzes this data to develop dynamic application maps and rich application system performance visualizations.

The FactFinder Console provides real-time and historical data on applications, enabling users to capture snapshots as a permanent record of application behavior and to perform comparisons across different time ranges.

Getting More Information

The product help is designed to provide detailed explanations and step-by-step instructions for using the FactFinder Console and BlueStripe Collectors. It can serve as both a starting point and as reference material. If you can't find the answer to your question, go to the BlueStripe Customer Support Site available at http://support.bluestripe.com/.

About BlueStripe

BlueStripe Software provides the only Application Performance Management solution that gives IT Organizations the visibility into exactly what IT components make up important business applications, where the application transactions go in those systems, exactly where transactions are spending time and why.  BlueStripe’s flagship application management product, FactFinder, provides 24x7 application monitoring and problem management for important production applications across any application architecture, across any server platform: physical, virtual or cloud.

Based in the Research Triangle Park (RTP) area of N.C., BlueStripe is led by an executive team that has built some of the industry’s leading enterprise application management companies, including Wily Technology, Relicore, Computer Associates, Remedy and IBM/Tivoli. For additional information, please visit http://bluestripe.com.