Apica Systems announced enhanced capabilities to
help customers reduce friction as they look toward a Web 3.0 world. Apica's
product team has developed a forward-looking strategy to help align all product
development to a Web 3.0 vision. This began late last year with the load
testing and synthetic monitoring capabilities being combined into the Apica
platform now named Apica Ascent. These new improvements help reduce
friction in dashboarding to help customers consume the data they want when and
where they want it.
"We
work with some of the largest forward-thinking companies globally - from
finance and manufacturing to entertainment - who need to test and monitor
mission-critical applications and their end user's journey," said Jason
Haworth, CPO at Apica. "We have made it a priority to listen to and even
anticipate our customers' needs while delivering the best-in-class digital
performance monitoring platform. Our plan is to make monitoring easier for any
organization looking toward Web 3.0 and beyond."
Apica's
Ascent platform's new capabilities include:
Scripted
Checks:
Apica's
new Scripted Checks capabilities allow organizations to run as a monitor
anything they can code. Now they can observe any complex problem or system that
can be monitored through any type of coded interface. This means organizations
can replace self-managed on-premises software with powerful scripting engines
that handle the most complex workflows. DevOps and monitoring teams can now
develop scripts through the most popular scripting languages and any home-grown
languages. The result is the ability to monitor anything that can be reached by
code including systems that are not traditionally monitorable.
Lambda
Checks:
Organizations
that are fully cloud-based can now run as a monitor anything they can code,
natively inside their AWS environment. With the ability to monitor resources
that are inside private AWS Virtual Private Clouds, organizations can have
visibility into secured application components without the need to create
security exceptions for external agents while ensuring all monitoring runs with
appropriate permissions.
Grafana
Integration
The Grafana
Plugin enables integration of Apica's platform with customers' on-site
deployment of Grafana to provide customizable views of their application
monitoring for business owners and operations teams, to identify availability
and performance issues before they impact users. The Apica Panels, conveniently
integrated directly into Apica Synthetic Monitoring (ASM), eliminate the need
to deploy a Grafana server and enable Single Sign-On so customers can get the
data quickly.
SSO
for ALT
Current customers
of ASM have enjoyed the simplified user administration afforded by Single
Sign-On (SSO), which allows organizations to manage access through their
existing centralized Enterprise User Management system. The same SSO
capabilities are now included in Apica's Load Testing (ALT), bringing the same
simplicity and operational savings. With the enhanced SSO feature,
organizations can now integrate both ASM and ALT with their Enterprise User
Management system using industry-standard SAML 2.0 for identity federation.