November 2005

StarBase partner Mercury are offering a free trial of its Diagnostic Profiler for you to preview the features and capabilities of the tool.

• Are you a JAVA developer under pressure to resolve performance problems earlier in the application lifecycle?

• Do your responsibilities include the configuration and management of J2EE application server environments in testing and production?

This free trial of Mercury Diagnostics ProfilerTM previews the features and capabilities most sought after by application owners in solving tough application problems. Unlike existing tools for developers, Diagnostics Profiler integrates into the lifecycle of load testing and problem isolation in production by sharing the same lifecycle probe as Mercury Diagnostics™ – The Mercury diagnostics solution for monitoring, triaging, and diagnosing application performance problems in testing and production environments. It provides a single-vendor lifecycle solution that eliminates the need to use several different tools to analyze and diagnose application development problems.

 

Mercury Diagnostics Profiler enables you to:

• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks during the development lifecycle

• Quickly isolate and resolve complex application problems in development environments

• Reduce application outages by testing your applications with minimal overhead unlike traditional developer tools

Features and Benefits

Feature Description	Benefit
Summary & hotspots	Identify top performance hotspots in applications
Server request breakdown	Identify where time is spent
Layer breakdown	Identify which J2EE layer is slow
Slowest roots	Identify slowest server request or application entry points for non-web fronted applications
Top 3 slowest instances	Identify outliers for intermittent problems
VM heap usage	Identify memory problems/GC
Collection memory leak diagnostics	Identify fastest growing & largest size JAVA collections, including the caller and the exact line number where collection was allocated
Heap breakdown with class & size information	Identify leaking object, growth trends, instance count & byte size for objects
SQL diagnostics (slowest SQL)	Identify slowest SQL query with query information
Synchronization diagnostics	Identify locks with hold times
Exception diagnostics (including exception traces & count)	Identify exception counts & trace information that often might go undetected

This technology preview is available free. After your evaluation is complete, Mercury hope you will consider moving to Mercury Diagnostics, their complete lifecycle solution.