VMware announced the End of Availability of VMware vFabric Application Performance Manager, effective 06/01/2013.
The vFabric Hyperic component will continue to be available as a standalone product or through the vCenter Ops Advanced or Enterprise edition.
vFabric Hyperic monitors operating systems, middleware and applications running in physical, virtual and cloud environments:
Fast and Easy Web Infrastructure Monitoring
- Auto-discover over 120 middleware and applications, complete with pre-configured best practice collection for key performance indicators (KPIs) to accelerate monitoring setup.
- run-book deployment automation, including the ability to copy and reuse monitoring configurations and alert policies to quickly bring resources under management.
- Comprehensive monitoring for performance, configuration and security changes correlated in an easy to read user interface to enable quick root cause analysis (RCA).
- Advanced alerting and escalation workflows to reduce alert duplication, irrelevant alerts, and false alarms by setting alert condition definitions on a wide range of performance metrics.
- Administrative actions such as restarting servers or running garbage collection can be scheduled or run in response to an alert condition, or manually performed via Hyperics web interface.
- Role-based alerting to assign problems to appropriate owners; Role-based security
- AJAX dashboard
- Manage applications across physical and cloud-based infrastructures
- Extended analysis tools include advanced dashboard charting, capacity planning, base lining and built-in reporting
- Enterprise-level scalability and high-availability deployment options
- Universally extensible, vFabric Hyperic API aggregates all subsystem-specific functionality
- Hyperics Management Plugin Framework lets you build your own plugins to support ny unsupported device, HQU Plugin framework lets you create custom user interfaces to present performance data