Shortfacts - September 2015

Dynamic tools for end-to-end application monitoring

With Sakuli, Consol has now developed a new tool that efficiently supports IT managers with end-to-end application monitoring. Sakuli combines the open source monitoring tools Sahi and Sikuli in a new, universal test framework and checks applications for both content-related and functional faults and errors.

Sakuli can be used, for example, to ensure the company-wide performance of enterprise applications such as Citrix. For this purpose, Sakuli logs in continuously at all locations and reports when the defined response times are exceeded.

In online stores, Sakuli acts as a "test shopper" and can check the order process from item search to shopping cart to payment for smooth functioning. Sakuli can also independently retrieve reports (e.g. from SAP BI) and monitor their execution time as well as the timeliness of their contents.