Precise, a company specializing in an application performance monitoring solution for transactions, has added new capabilities to its Precise version 9.0 for monitoring Java clusters.

The newly added function will now allow application owners, Java administrators and experts to quickly and easily find the root cause of problems in clustered applications and fix them.

“When you are using clusters in your application, traditional JVM monitoring is not relevant anymore,” Assaf Sagi, product manager for Composite Applications at Precise said in a statement. “By analyzing the entire cluster end-to-end, and recommending tuning opportunities, Precise helps customers scale their Java applications in the cloud.”

Precise 9.0 manages cloud, hybrid, and physical application performance from the business user all the way down to the storage, to improve QoS.

Key features added in Precise 9.0 for Java include automatic analyses of load balancing patterns, pinpointing JVMs that are over or under-utilized; automatic information of the best tuning opportunities to improve application performance in the cluster, including CPU metrics, Java garbage collection time, and external resources such as databases and storage; and automatic detection of new JVMs that are added to the cluster and decommissioned JVMs that are removed, eliminating management overhead.

Precise believes clustered enterprise applications, performance and availability are much harder to analyze when things go wrong. Virtual and cloud environments add yet another layer of complexity, as JVMs are constantly added and removed from clusters, making it harder to retrace transaction paths later.

“Many of today’s mission critical enterprise Java applications use JVM clustering to ensure high availability," says Julie Craig, research director, Application Management with Enterprise Management Associates.

Precise has introduced functionality that segments performance data by cluster and specific JVM. This key capability enables companies running JVM clusters essential information on how to resolve issues and restore application service quickly.

Recently, Precise announced a sales partnership with leading Northern European IT Services Company, Tieto. The collaboration comes shortly after the announcement of Precise 9.0, adding quality of service management for applications before, during and after migration to cloud infrastructures.

About Precise

Precise helps over 1500 customers worldwide manage Quality of Service (QoS) of their mission critical applications. With innovative Transaction Performance Management (TPM) products and managed services, Precise TPM supports all major packaged applications, custom applications, databases and storage devices – running on physical, virtual and Cloud infrastructure. For more information about Precise, visit www.precise.com.