.. _`Introduction`:

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Introduction
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About Vortex Insight
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Vortex Insight provides users with operational and situational awareness
throughout the development, provisioning and deployment of a
Vortex-based system. Connecting to a DDS system, Vortex Cloud or Vortex Fog system
with Vortex Insight enables users to examine the entities making up the
system and quickly identify problems.


Key Benefits
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-  Reduce the time to identify the cause of problems in both systems
   under development and deployed systems
-  Reduce the need to send technical support engineers on site to
   identify problems in a deployed system
-  Monitor and manage a system from any location and on any device (with
   appropriate web browser support)
-  Monitor 'non-functional' properties, such as memory and CPU usage, of
   the system in order to optimize its performance and isolate problems
-  Provide real-time operational intelligence and visibility in a
   deployed system through detailed statistics and alerts

Key Features
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-  Runtime view of a Vortex system, including statistics associated with
   each system element
-  Configurable dashboard for monitoring, including graphs and charts of
   statistics and resource usage
-  Graphical representation of system-wide connectivity

Monitor
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-  The operational state, resource usage and key statistics of a Vortex
   system
-  Logical, physical and data-centric views of a system
-  View topics published and subscribed to by a participant
-  View readers and writers for each topic
-  View structure and connections between entities in a system
-  Real-time analysis of resource usage

   -  Alerts triggered under user-defined conditions
   -  Isolate participants, readers and writers that trigger conditions
      and visually drill down for detailed resource usage breakdown

Detect
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-  Graphical display of connectivity between readers and writers
-  Graphical display of QoS policies used for matching a data reader and
   writer
-  Enables users to quickly identify and isolate QoS mismatches

Integrate
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-  Open architecture tooling framework with documented REST API enables
   users to create custom supervisory tools and applications
-  Thin client Web-based GUI tool that runs on leading web browsers:
   Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer
   
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