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Reining in the 4 D’s of SpiralingReining in the 4 D s of Spiraling Application Support CostsMarie Hoch, Director of APM Solutions, SL Corporation
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The 4 D’s of Spiraling App Support Costs
• Disparate data
• Dysfunctional systems
• Demanding processesDemanding processes
• Divined planning
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Disparate Data
• Financial services organizations have multiple layers of information– Infrastructure– Middleware– Application performance
• Various application support teams are creating their own monitoring solutions or using their own tools
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Disparate Data Case Study: Large U.S. Investment Bank
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Disparate Data Case Study: Large U.S. Investment Bank
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Disparate Data Case Study: Large U.S. Investment Bank
• Eliminated Sev 1 application performance outages, quickly detecting root cause of the application problem to meet 15 minute SLAsroot cause of the application problem to meet 15 minute SLAs
• Implemented summary and in-depth dashboard views to monitor:– Cuts across monitoring silos for more than 100 apps across different
b i itbusiness units– every layer in their IT landscape– proactively detect problems
• Business & technical users:Business metrics
App Performance
Infrastructure Performance
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Dysfunctional Systems
• Increasing reliance on experts• Junior support engineers need greater visibility in order
t b ff tito be effective• Systems are not able to provide the necessary
information for early notification, analysis and resolutioninformation for early notification, analysis and resolution of issues
• Inability to reduce the noise and focus on issues that i h b iimpact the business
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Dysfunctional Systems Case Study: Another Large U.S. Investment Bank
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Demanding (and Repetitive) Processes
Takes an inordinate amount of time for app support team members to go out of the monitoring environment to do the manual checks or reparative actions when errors are discovered.
There are costs associated with initial and ongoing training to understand how these checks and fixes should be performed.
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How to Rein in Cost of Demanding Processes
Automate manual processes such as:• Health checksHealth checks• Digging through log files
Implement command & control functions such as:• starting and stopping processes
t UNIX h ll d• system or UNIX shell commands
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How to Rein in Cost of Demanding Processes
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Divined Planning
• Inability to understand state of transactions and utilization off of command line administrative utility
• Too many data points to extrapolate meaningful information and make good decisions – “Crystal Ball”
• Lack of historical trends• Lack of historical trends
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Divined Planning
31,500 Data points for 1 hour – Too much!
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How to Rein in Cost of Divined Planning
• Get historical metrics over a period of time to understand usage
• Gain meaningful, correlated views without having to go to the operations teams
• Leverage trend graphs• Leverage trend graphs
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How to Rein in Cost of Divined Planning
How many orders are in the queue?
How many exceptions are in the queue?
How many orders are in the retry queue?
How fast are orders flowing out of the queue?
How fast are orders coming into the queue?
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How to Rein in Cost of Divined Planning
Are we there yet?
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