TrueView Express™

IT departments implement Application Delivery Controllers (like F5's BIG-IP) to increase application performance. While these solutions undoubtedly improve the end user experience, they also create systems management challenges by hiding the root cause of performance problems from IT, and masking opportunities to further maximize server and application performance.

TrueView Express is a lightweight version of The Real User Experience monitoring aspect of TrueView. An industry first, TrueView Express tightly integrates with F5's powerful iRules and iControl platform to migrate the management burden off of the web tier and on to your existing BIG-IP appliance. This simplifies management system implementation by removing the need for agents to be installed anywhere in your infrastructure.

In addition to gathering and presenting detailed performance information from the user's browser, additional F5-specific metrics are extracted and presented from the BIG-IP appliance itself. The information, presented via a management console that is easily downloaded and installed on practically any Windows machine, has the depth of more traditional 'sniffer' based products, and can begin helping you optimize your BIG-IP configuration in hours - not days or weeks. The data is made more useful by being shown in contrast to the Real User Experience for every transaction being monitored.

• Response times for 100% of your users, as measured in the browser
• Visibility into F5 virtual servers and server pools
• Rich reporting and trending on any F5 statistic, including
  • Server side bytes out
  • Client side bytes in
  • Time to first/last packet
  • Number/Length of client connections

This unprecedented visibility into F5 performance metrics, correlated automatically to the response time as experienced by your real end-users, gives you the visibility you need to optimize your BIG-IP configuration.