Newvem’s Amazon Cloud Heat Map Tool Shows Trouble

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

Newvem, the Israeli and San Francisco cloud-monitoring startup, has brought a graphic way of viewing workloads in the Amazon cloud into quick focus. Its recently released Utilization Heat Map service can show utilization levels of an individual server, a group of servers or aggregated workloads in a color-coded map.

Amazon Web Services’ CloudWatch service also shows utilization levels, particularly if a customer plugs certain data from Amazon’s own monitoring system into the CloudWatch dashboard or chooses to chart parts of it. But Newvem has organized the flow of data on a server’s operation into a Cloud Capacity Utilization Heat Map that analyzes it and comes up with a projection of what servers, or group of servers, are being heavily, moderately or lightly utilized…

Unlike Amazon’s CloudWatch, which deals with only the most recent 14 days of data, the Newvem heat map can show data from a 30-day period. Newvem’s system stores it for historical use, although the Utilization Heat Map is currently able to work with only 30 days of data. In its next release — before mid-year — the heat map will be able to perform historical analysis on both the current 30-day period and the one that preceded it…

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