Rookout,
the modern debugging platform, today announced it will bring server
performance metrics directly into the debugging workflow for the first
time. Traditionally, telemetry related to CPU spikes, memory leaks, and
disks filling up were prioritized solely by IT Operations teams using
traditional monitoring and APM tools. However, with the shift-left
DevOps movement, it's critical that software developers understand how
their code is impacting production and that they care about metrics such
as uptime.
"Over the past decade software developers have
become more and more invested in the server metrics underneath their
code," said Liran Haimovitch, CTO and co-founder of Rookout.
"Traditional debugging is painful enough -- let alone having to context
switch between your debugger and an APM tool. This is why we've decided
to bring relevant server health metrics directly into the debugging
workflow, so developers can see their application code alongside
infrastructure health, in one place, to understand the full picture."
The
idea for a more seamless debugging workflow came back in February, at
the AppDynamics global event Transform 2020. It was there that Rookout
announced a formal integration with AppDynamics called Deep Code Insights,
which allowed IT Operations teams to notice a performance issue, such
as a CPU spike or memory leak, and then leverage Rookout's technology to
click directly into the application code, in order to pinpoint and
diagnose the root cause.
Today, that workflow can be inverted
for organizations interested in shifting left, due to Rookout's native
ability to surface performance metrics inside the tool where the
developer already lives. "We want to make it easier for developers to
understand their software," said Shahar Fogel, CEO of Rookout. "This
will drastically improve enterprise velocity and agility, as it becomes
much simpler to correlate code innovation to its impact on performance."
According to the analyst firm Digital Enterprise Journal,
61% of organizations report the "time spent trying to identify the root
cause" and the "lack of actionable context from monitoring data" as key
challenges for ensuring optimal performance in production. "Rookout
created a developer-centric software which short-circuits complexities
in production debugging, increases developer efficiency, and reduces the
friction which exists between IT Ops and developers," said Rob
Salvagno, VP of Cisco Global Corporate Development and Cisco
Investments.