By jspirko on 5/20/2008 12:54 PM

Well, it’s been a while since my last post but we’ve been working hard on our Ajax project and I think I can share some of the challenges we will be tackling along the way.  Here is a summary of the challenges with a brief explanation of each.
 

1. When analyzing traffic flowing into an Ajax application you generally see some page request and then you see a series of Ajax calls with the page as the referrer some time later.  So the unit of work that used to be a page is no longer very useful for these app types.
2. When you see an Ajax hit you don’t know what was done by the user to initiate the call so if there is an error, performance problem, or general need to understand the context of the hit you can’t do it.  This was very straight forward when the web was synchronous.
3. In order to get the full picture for Ajax or o ... Read More »

By jspirko on 4/24/2008 1:07 PM

This week I would like to open a topic on something I have been getting many questions about lately; how Quest is addressing Ajax in the Foglight End User monitoring cartridge.  To start with I will do my best to explain why Ajax is a bit of a curve ball for end user monitoring in general and then offer some insight on both long and short term initiatives that Quest is working on to addre Read More »

By jspirko on 4/3/2008 11:27 AM

Hi and welcome to the blog written about managing end users and the services delivered to them. Hopefully, as users of applications yourselves, and managers of applications that service end users, you'll find a lot of value in what we talk about.

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