[LINK] Outage Analyzer

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

"Mapping Internet Outages in Realtime"

 http://www.outageanalyzer.com


Technology performance monitoring firm Compuware announced on Wednesday 
that it has launched Outage Analyzer, a new performance analytics service.

Outage Analyzer provides real-time visualizations and alerts of outages 
of third-party web services worldwide.

The Outage Analyzer is available for free online, and shows outages and 
their impact by hosting location on a map. (mouse-over the red dots)

Outage Analyzer uses big data technology from Flume and Hadoop and a 
proprietary anomaly detection engine to correlate more than eight billion 
data points per day.

It collects live data from the entire Gomez customer base and Gomez 
Benchmark tests of more than 150,000 test locations.

Incident visualization displays information on the current status impact 
based on severity, geography and duration, as well as the probable cause 
of the outage. The playback feature shows its impact over time.

Outage Analyzer allows users to automatically view the most recent 
outages, and search for outages in specific IPs, IP ranges or service 
domains. This gives users the ability to search for outages in services 
that potentially impact their own applications. Users can receive alerts 
via RSS and Twitter feeds.

“Since Outage Analyzer has been up and running, we’ve seen an average of 
about 200 third-party web service outages a day,” Steve Tack, VP product 
management, Compuware APM business unit said in a statement. 

“Outage Analyzer is just the beginning. Our big data platform, propriety 
correlation and anomaly detection algorithms, and intuitive 
visualizations of issues with cloud and third-party web services are key 
building-blocks to delivering a new generation of answer-centric APM.”

Recent outages like Go Daddy, and Windows Azure, illustrate that 
communication is one of the biggest issues surrounding outages. Free 
services like Outage Analyzer can give businesses with multiple 
applications hosted on several different infrastructures one place to 
monitor applications.
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Cheers,
Stephen