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title: " AppFormix: Helping Enterprises Operationalize Kubernetes "
date: 2016-03-29
slug: appformix-helping-enterprises
url: /blog/2016/03/Appformix-Helping-Enterprises
author: >
Sumeet Singh (AppFormix)
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If you run clouds for a living, you’re well aware that the tools we've used since the client/server era for monitoring, analytics and optimization just don’t cut it when applied to the agile, dynamic and rapidly changing world of modern cloud infrastructure.
And, if you’re an operator of enterprise clouds, you know that implementing containers and container cluster management is all about giving your application developers a more agile, responsive and efficient cloud infrastructure. Applications are being rewritten and new ones developed – not for legacy environments where relatively static workloads are the norm, but for dynamic, scalable cloud environments. The dynamic nature of cloud native applications coupled with the shift to continuous deployment means that the demands placed by the applications on the infrastructure are constantly changing.
This shift necessitates infrastructure transparency and real-time monitoring and analytics. Without these key pieces, neither applications nor their underlying plumbing can deliver the low-latency user experience end users have come to expect.
**AppFormix Architectural Review**
From an operational standpoint, it is necessary to understand how applications are consuming infrastructure resources in order to maximize ROI and guarantee SLAs. AppFormix software empowers operators and developers to monitor, visualize, and control how physical resources are utilized by cloud workloads.
At the center of the software, the AppFormix Data Platform provides a distributed analysis engine that performs configurable, real-time evaluation of in-depth, high-resolution metrics. On each host, the resource-efficient AppFormix Agent collects and evaluates multi-layer metrics from the hardware, virtualization layer, and up to the application. Intelligent agents offer sub-second response times that make it possible to detect and solve problems before they start to impact applications and users. The raw data is associated with the elements that comprise a cloud-native environment: applications, virtual machines, containers, hosts. The AppFormix Agent then publishes metrics and events to a Data Manager that stores and forwards the data to Analytics modules. Events are based on predefined or dynamic conditions set by users or infrastructure operators to make sure that SLAs and policies are being met.
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