1. Introduction

1.1. About Vortex Insight

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.

1.1.1. Key Benefits

  • 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

1.1.2. Key Features

  • 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

1.1.3. Monitor

  • 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

1.1.4. Detect

  • 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

1.1.5. Integrate

  • 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