Know an issue’s cause and effect with root cause analysis

Automatically detect and identify the root causes of application slowdowns or failures

Take the fast lane to the root cause for quicker issue resolution.

The heart of any root cause analysis starts with a visual roadmap illustrating the complex interactions among components within your environment.
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  • Identify and display service dependencies, including automatically tracked resource changes

  • Monitor performance and view interdependencies that may not be immediately apparent

  • Integrate system health information to minimize downtime and improve overall system reliability 

  • Proactively anticipate potential problems and implement preventive measures

  • Prioritize improvements based on the severity and importance of affected components

  • Get detailed insights into individual components' health and performance with integrated metric, log, event, and trace data 

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You can’t fix what you’re not aware is broken

Alerts and notifications form the cornerstone of maintaining smooth IT operations.

StackState's alert and notification system — which includes detailed analytics and a direct link to the incident — empowers organizations to address IT challenges through faster and more effective root cause analysis. For engineers, precise, actionable insights help to expedite technical issue resolution. For operations, alerts are used as evidence for enhanced performance and optimization opportunities.

With StackState automatically converting data into precise and actionable insights, business stakeholders can immediately assign tasks for resolution and more quickly ensure uninterrupted operations.

See the inner workings of your entire environment

Drill down to the origin of the obstacles affecting peak performance. 

After being alerted that an issue exists, you'll want to call on StackState's dynamic dependency maps to find the root cause. DevOps teams use these single-screen blueprints to gain immediate insight into service interactions, dependencies, infrastructure, and performance metrics. With our dependency maps, even newly onboarded staff quickly grasp the intricacies of your applications. 

Navigating these service and infrastructure dependency maps is a breeze with real-time updates that display component connections. By leveraging dependency maps, engineers can take advantage of improved troubleshooting capabilities, streamline the end-to-end processes, independently resolve issues, and proactively identify related problems — all while avoiding unnecessary disruptions across the organization.

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Pre-built guidance for typical problems. 

Remediation guides are valued tools by team members of any skill level.

Upon detecting an issue, StackState supplies out-of-the-box remediation guides for the most common cases. Over 30 guides provide clear insights into an issue's significance, offer step-by-step instructions for the quickest and most effective resolution, and even feature code snippets as remediation suggestions. Each guide can be customized to tackle common programming errors or software bugs. 

Our out-of-the-box guides not only offer a comprehensive approach to troubleshooting, which has traditionally been a manual and tedious process, but they are also incredibly user-friendly and accessible even to those with minimal technical expertise.

Find issues and fix them fast with immediate root case analysis

StackState's Root Cause Analysis quick-starts troubleshooting, enabling more confident issue resolution on the first attempt. First, alerts and notifications are precise and immediate. Then, an easy-to-follow topology map unveils the full impact. Finally, user-friendly remediation guides get you back to square one fast, so your teams spend more time innovating and less time doing root case detective work.

So, seriously, is your approach faster than StackState's?