FireScope Releases Ajax Capable Web Monitoring Software

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The performance of a website should be monitored as much as possible. In a successful website, millions of users will access and use the website extensively, not to mention hackers who just happens to do it just for fun. Since Ajax is now popular in some websites, monitoring is even more important since information will be trafficked both ways with the server having the entire burden of directing that traffic.

With that traffic and burden in the server, anything could happen in anytime. Monitoring should be implemented in this type of website as much as possible. You can’t just leave a million dollar website to go out for nothing. Precautions have to be made. FireScope, a California based software company has released FireScope Web Monitoring. This software will monitor the websites general performance in terms security and its ability to handle traffic. This software’s edge is its ability to handle Ajax based websites. The VP for Development for FireScope, Mark Ponthier, explains the importance of their ability to handle Ajax based websites. "Emerging technologies such as service oriented architecture, mashups and AJAX make monitoring and performance tuning web applications a much more complex task than in the past. It's no longer enough to simply test the front-end web server. What businesses need, and what FireScope delivers, is comprehensive monitoring and testing from the user's experience as well as every underlying component." Aside from testing and monitoring the performance of a website, FireScope Web Monitoring is able to the real time flow of a specific transaction. This will give the web developers and testers the idea how the website actually works from the consumers’ perspective. They can pinpoint a specific transaction and create metrics on how did the transaction went through. Any bugs or deficiency in coding that slows the process can be pointed out by this software. All of this can be done in real time. Looking at the website from the consumers’ perspective is usually forgotten since the company is already comfortable after a series of testing. Besides large companies don’t just hire programmers, they hire highly competent programmers who can create powerful and secure websites. But amidst all of these it’s always possible that something is wrong with the website. It’s not that it’s slow but its ability to be user friendly is not at all considered. Websites from the owners’ perspective are always good but consumers will always see something different. The software also comes with the ability to collaborate with other users. At the same time, other Ajax based operations are integrated with their tool such as Google Maps and Gadgets. Utilizing JavaScript, it has a drag and drop feature so that reports will be customized. With this software, companies will eventually have more metrics to consider. The user experience of the website is clearly laid out and at the same time, the technological advantage of using Ajax makes monitoring of a website in real time is possible. The president of FireScope, Mark Lynd simply puts it this way, “"Businesses can no longer afford to see IT operations purely from the technology point of view. By tightly integrating the underlying technology metrics with the business metrics that result, FireScope enables IT leaders to base their strategic decisions on how it will positively impact business objectives.”