Web and API Monitoring

We have a history of modernising development and operational processes to capitalise on the leading edge of technology and have ingrained DevOps principles into our service delivery model. We can help advise on and implement these solutions, from configuration management and orchestration, to monitoring and management solutions, to Continuous Integration and delivery and beyond.

The ORQA platform allows even non-developers to automate user scenarios through recording of user interactions, whether on websites or desktop applications. These can be uploaded to the OCTANE Cloud platform which can execute these tests distributed across nodes of any type, including the ability to test against different browser types, browser versions, screen sizes, devices and operating systems.

The rich analytics dashboard allows teams to get a consolidated view of behaviour and customise tools according to their specific environment. Metrics and monitoring that may be implemented include: checking disk space, CPU and memory usage; response times to HTTP requests; page load times; correctness of display in different browsers, versions, devices, screen sizes and operating system; responsiveness of site under load; business transaction simulations.

ORQA's record and playback functions allow any user to record scenarios for websites and desktop applications and use these as metrics for complex business interactions. For example, one may record the process for signing up a new user, creating and running a customised search, and downloading the results to a PC. Such a process can be recorded once, parameterised to change data over time if required and uploaded to OCTANE Cloud to be run on a scheduled basis, providing a full history of real performance observed by the users of your service.

With ORQA automation you can even record recovery or response actions to take place when certain situations are observed, which further expands the abilities of your system to recover from abnormal situations. For example, we may wish to archive certain log files should free disk space be getting low.

Utilising the web-based dashboard for monitoring and management, and the ORQA automation platform for development and execution of complex web, API and application UI scenarios, IB Boost can design and implement a system to provide continuous feedback and alerts to your operations teams and management, both in production and test environments.

OCTANE Cloud allows organisations to monitor the health and performance of their websites and APIs to provide 'continuous assurance' that business processes are running as expected.

The OCTANE Cloud platform can be implemented on-premise, in private or hybrid cloud or on any cloud IaaS vendor platform, including Azure, AWS, GCP, and UK Cloud. Our consultants can work with you to design private implementations and to determine appropriate cloud platform choices, or you may wish to utilise our public cloud instances for out of the box solutions without requiring any consultancy, working on a pure licence basis.

A powerful alerting and notification system allows all such monitoring metrics to be handled as you wish with email alerts, social media integration, web service API and dashboard graphical notifications to ensure service levels are met, 24 hours a day.

Integrations with issue and defect tracking systems are also possible with ORQA, ensuring that observations in production are always appropriately tracked in the development organisation with the relevant details.