Software produced by Symphoniq records which infrastructure element is responsible for any performance problems. The startup has just unveiled a .NET Diagnostics addition to its TrueView End-to-End Web Performance Management Suite at the Microsoft Management Summit, which ties any performance problems back to specific tiers, servers, or machines, tracking all the way from the Internet Explorer browser through IIS and the .NEt application framework, to SQL Server 2005.
It is intended to help IT shops understand how each component contributes to the overall end-user response time, and pinpoint where problems are sited. The system, which will also tackle J2EE problems, is said to monitor the real user experience as measured at the actual user’s browser. It records how long each web page takes to load at the web browser of every user, and pinpoints those users, web pages, or business groups that are affected.
The software traces slowdowns to specific IP addresses, servers, method calls, and SQL queries, and uses a series of JavaScript-based web server probes to instrument each outgoing page of the application being monitored.
Symphoniq, which was set up by Hon Wong, Ching-Fa Hwang, and Her-daw Che, the people behind NetIQ, has already picked up $6m in venture capital funds from InterWest Partners and Greylock, and is said to be in the process of taking on a second round.
