Heroix Longitude

Heroix Longitude is a monitoring and reporting software designed to monitor and manage IT infrastructure, including databases, virtualization environments, servers, applications, and cloud resources. According to the vendor, it provides real-time visibility into the performance and availability of these components, allowing IT teams to proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact end-users. Heroix Longitude is said to be suitable for organizations of all sizes, ranging from small businesses to large enterprises. It is used by various professions and industries, including IT administrators and managers, system administrators, network administrators, database administrators, cloud administrators, IT operations teams, managed service providers, healthcare industry, financial services industry, education sector, and government organizations.

Key Features

Database Monitoring: Heroix Longitude offers comprehensive agentless monitoring for SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL databases. It proactively monitors key performance and availability metrics and generates alerts for both database and IT infrastructure components. Additionally, it generates comprehensive reports to showcase database utilization and capacity issues, according to the vendor.

Virtualization Monitoring: According to the vendor, Heroix Longitude provides easy-to-use VMware and Hyper-V monitoring and reporting capabilities. It agentlessly monitors key physical and virtual performance metrics and offers built-in knowledge base alerts for potential performance and availability problems. The software also offers capacity planning to address virtual machine sprawl and resource utilization challenges.

Server Monitoring: Heroix Longitude agentlessly monitors heterogeneous environments, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX, according to the vendor. It proactively watches for resource depletion issues, server log errors, and hardware failures. The software provides pre-configured reports and graphs to display resource utilization and server availability. It also monitors server logs and generates alerts for potential issues.

Application Monitoring: Heroix Longitude assesses and alerts on the performance of multi-tiered applications and business services through Service Level Agreements (SLAs), according to the vendor. It correlates user experience metrics with the underlying IT infrastructure and application components, offering SLA dashboards and reports for quick investigation of compliance shortfalls. This feature aims to improve end-user experience and troubleshoot performance problems.

Cloud Monitoring: According to the vendor, Heroix Longitude automatically collects key performance and availability metrics from on-premises and cloud infrastructures. It identifies availability and performance issues that affect cloud services and provides dashboards and reports for a holistic view of application performance across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. This feature aims to help IT teams manage cloud environments more effectively.

Messaging Monitoring: Heroix Longitude offers comprehensive agentless monitoring for Exchange Servers, according to the vendor. It alerts to performance and availability issues related to Exchange, server, network, and virtualization resources. The software provides pre-configured reports and graphs to pinpoint problem areas, ensuring maximum availability of critical email resources.

Network Monitoring: Heroix Longitude provides out-of-the-box monitoring for network devices, NetFlow, and DHCP, according to the vendor. It proactively monitors key metrics and alerts to any network problems. The software's dashboards, reports, and graphs offer insights into network utilization and availability. Additionally, Longitude SNMP Studio extends network performance monitoring coverage to any SNMP device.