'App mapping' gives enterprises improved visibility into systems

The shift to containers and as-a-service delivery models introduces blind spots for many enterprises as they struggle to see the whole picture and can't determine the health of their apps and APIs.

Netsil, a new startup, is launching an innovative solution to this problem in the form of its Application Operations Center (AOC), a universal observation and monitoring platform for modern cloud applications.

It uses an 'app mapping' technique to allow DevOps teams to gain complete visibility into all their services and their dependencies, with no code changes required. It automatically discovers every Docker container, Kubernetes pod, host and service endpoint, along with all the interactions among them. The maps also capture key service health metrics like latency, throughput and error rates for API calls, database queries, DNS lookups and other service interactions.

Armed with this information DevOps teams can cut downtime by quickly identifying the root cause of problems using dependencies on the map, ensure safer deployments, and deliver on service level objectives.

No code changes are needed as AOC works by listening -- Netsil is listen backwards -- to service interactions and conducting a real-time analysis of packets to obtain deep application insights. Because it's using the network as a vantage point, AOC can observe and monitor across generations of applications.

"When you consider the chaos in application space with new programming languages, abstractions and frameworks, the network emerges as a natural, stable vantage point to observe and monitor modern cloud applications," says Netsil, CEO and co-founder, Harjot Gill. "Netsil's network-centric approach is future-proof across generations of applications. So, whether it is Kubernetes and Docker today or Lambda functions tomorrow, the Netsil AOC will observe and monitor them without requiring any code changes."

You can learn more and sign up for a 15-day free trial on the Netsil website.

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