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Description

Improving business outcomes involves making it easier to spot and address high-priority incidents. The WatchTower Platform serves as a comprehensive observability tool that streamlines incident resolution specifically within mainframe environments by effectively integrating and correlating events, data flows, and metrics across various IT silos. It provides a cohesive and intuitive interface for operations teams, allowing them to optimize their workflows. Leveraging established AIOps solutions, WatchTower is adept at detecting potential problems at an early stage, which aids in proactive mitigation. Additionally, it utilizes OpenTelemetry to transmit mainframe data and insights to observability tools, allowing enterprise SREs to pinpoint bottlenecks and improve operational effectiveness. By enhancing alerts with relevant context, WatchTower eliminates the necessity for logging into multiple tools to gather essential information. Its workflows expedite the processes of problem identification, investigation, and incident resolution, while also simplifying the handover and escalation of issues. With such capabilities, WatchTower not only enhances incident management but also empowers teams to proactively maintain high service availability.

Description

Gain comprehensive insight into your cloud-native and distributed applications, encompassing everything from microservices to serverless setups, allowing for swift identification and resolution of underlying issues. Effortlessly integrate Application Performance Management (APM) to automatically detect anomalies, visualize service dependencies, and streamline the investigation of outliers and unusual behaviors. Enhance your application code with robust support for widely-used programming languages, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing methodologies. Recognize performance bottlenecks through automated, curated visual representations of all dependencies, which include cloud services, messaging systems, data storage, and third-party services along with their performance metrics. Investigate anomalies in detail, diving into transaction specifics and various metrics for a more profound analysis of your application’s performance. By employing these strategies, you can ensure that your services run optimally and deliver a superior user experience.

API Access

Has API Yes 

API Access

Has API No 

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Integrations

OpenTelemetry Yes 
.NET No 
AWS Lambda No 
Amazon Web Services (AWS) No 
Ansible No 
C No 
C++ No 
Elastic Cloud No 
Go No 
Google Cloud Platform No 
Java No 
Jenkins No 
Maven No 
Microsoft Azure No 
Node.js No 
PHP No 
Python No 
Ruby No 
SYSVIEW Performance Management Yes 

Integrations

OpenTelemetry Yes 
.NET Yes 
AWS Lambda Yes 
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Yes 
Ansible Yes 
C Yes 
C++ Yes 
Elastic Cloud Yes 
Go Yes 
Google Cloud Platform Yes 
Java Yes 
Jenkins Yes 
Maven Yes 
Microsoft Azure Yes 
Node.js Yes 
PHP Yes 
Python Yes 
Ruby Yes 
SYSVIEW Performance Management No 

Pricing Details

No price information available.
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Pricing Details

$95 per month
Free Trial Yes 
Free Version No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours Yes 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars Yes 
Live Training (Online) Yes 
In Person Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

Broadcom

Country

United States

Website

www.broadcom.com/products/mainframe/watchtower-observability

Vendor Details

Company Name

Elastic

Country

United States

Website

www.elastic.co/observability/application-performance-monitoring

Product Features

Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Baseline Manager No 
Diagnostic Tools No 
Full Transaction Diagnostics No 
Performance Control No 
Resource Management No 
Root-Cause Diagnosis No 
Server Performance No 
Trace Individual Transactions No 

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