Brokerage firms are constantly under pressure to stay ahead of the competition. They need to make sure that they are using the latest technology and techniques to provide their clients with the best possible service. With constant advancements of technologies and integrations used by these brokerage systems, technical issues do arise.

Microservices are being used every where and for good reasons. They do provide you with many benefits especially improved focus and cutting the time to market. Microservices do bring complexities too. Monitoring microservices is complex because of simply the number of them. Monitoring a user transaction requires monitoring many microservices. Correlating the data from them to identify the root cause manually is a nightmare especially in a complex environment with 100s or 1000s of microservices.

Applicare 9 is a release focused on ease of use – SingleAgent, easy agent deployment and remote administration. Applicare 9 SingleAgent includes infrastructure monitoring, web servers monitoring, java app servers monitoring, databases monitoring and logs monitoring.

We are often asked this question – we are monitoring our systems and able to keep their uptime high. Isn’t that enough? Unfortunately that only provides one side of the story. Yes, they are up and resource utilization on them may be well within the limits. But it doesn’t tell us In fact, low resource utilization is very misleading because low utilization also happens when things are stuck waiting on external services response and nothing is processing.