Insight
Insight enables you to:
Understand the interdependencies of complex networks that change frequently.
Identify and isolate the root cause of problems quickly, preventing them from spreading and rippling through the network.
Predict and prepare for the impact of planned changes.
An Insight Agent runs continuously on application servers such as Integration Servers that host web services. The agent collects data and run-time statistics about service traffic from the application servers, detects incoming and outgoing web service calls, and reports the data to Insight Server. The agent can also publish the run-time statistics to CentraSite. Insight Agents do not affect the runtime flow; clients and servers are unaware that they exist.
Insight Server is a central engine that receives data from the Insight Agents and analyzes it to determine the information below.
The logical thread. Because the agents examine each call,
Insight Serveridentifies logical threads accurately and unambiguously. Across application platforms,
Insight Server tracks service calls and correlates them into a complete transaction view.
The root cause of service failures. A failure at one node usually depends on the upstream path of service calls.
Throughput bottlenecks. The amount of time a message spends, the amount of data transmitted, and what errors, if any, are returned from each node are data that help detect blockages.
Insight Server makes this information available to the network administrator.