Technical Focus : instrumentation standards

Alaloop portals are open to the integration of market instrumentation (standard or proprietary). This article reports on the different standards and approaches to instrumentation used for measuring performance of infrastructure and / or applications.

Instrumentation for IT performance is based, in order of importance, on the 3 following metrics:

1. performance measurement of services delivered: this metric is expressed in time units (min, sec, ms). These measures are intended to validate that the services delivered meet the performance targets generally included in a Service Level Agreement (SLA). We distinguish the SLA for infrastructures (network & hosting) and global SLA (End User & Applications);

2. workload of sensitive resources : the metric should be expressed as a percentage of the nominal load. The aim of these measures is to validate the IT resources capacity to ensure an optimal performance at an optimal cost;

3. traffic analysis: the objective of this metric is to identify an origin of traffic (IP address, application, etc..). The goal is to control the use of facilities by users, application or any other analysis.

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The 10 Alaloop commitments

1 - measuring IT performance in SaaS mode to reduce cost of ownership

2 - delivering only appropriate measures in relation to needs;

3 - maintaining a continuous innovation to sustain the solution;

4 - developping a portal open to the instrumentation standards;

5 - contributing to the development of the Open Souce model;

6 - maintaining its independence towards the IT market players;

7 - avoiding the proliferation of non necessary measurement products;

8 - using webmeeting to reduce the carbon footprint of travel ;

9 - ensuring the follow-up of our customers through our measurement expertise;

10 - promoting local employment and employee involvement.