Ruxit, a company that specializes in application performance management (APM), announced that it has added Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), to its list of supported technologies.
The startup from Waltham, Massachusetts, emerged last fall in stealth mode with its artificial intelligence-based cloud monitoring software. It stated that its solution aims to improve upon existing cloud monitoring tools.
AWS offers CloudWatch, a similar tool. Ruxit stated that it has integrated its technology into the CloudWatch API, and can now offer service superior than CloudWatch and a host of other monitoring/analytics offerings on the AWS site.
Yesterday’s blog post by Karolina Ruszkowska, a company executive, stated that other APM vendors only offer limited CloudWatch monitoring support. They provide raw data and ambiguous notification. “Only Ruxit provides powerful CloudWatch analytics that provide deep insight and solutions to performance issues.
[Click on the image to see a larger version.] Ruxit in Action (source : Ruxit). Ruxit stated that system-level performance counters allow it to enrich CloudWatch-generated metrics, present relevant information about AWS stacks in a single dashboard, and help users quickly gain performance insights.
For example, the automatic discovery and identification of dynamic EC2 compute instance instances is one such insight.
Ruszkowska stated that Ruszkowska’s Ruszkowska automatically detects AWS resources and application services and draws a map of the dependencies between your services, applications, processes, and AWS infrastructure components. “Alternative tool vendors that integrate with the CloudWatch API only provide a list of AWS services found in your environment.”
The company also highlighted smart problem notification and root cause analysis as a benefit. The company stated that alerts often don’t give enough information, such as the importance of an alert. Ruxit wants to provide more information such as the number affected users and how their experience was affected.
Ruxit is not the only monitoring/analytics offering on AWS. Cloudability Pro, CloudCheckr and Cloudlytics are also listed on the AWS site.
According to Ruxit, a self-starter package with up to 10 hosts and 2,000,000 user visits is available for a free one-month trial. Standard pricing kicks in afterward. You can also get a portfolio package with a 2-month trial. CloudWatch comes with a free basic monitoring tier and per-usage fees if you use the service beyond the free tier limits.
The entry lists provide performance metrics for Java and Node.js. Ruby support is also available.
