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Precision Instrumentation

TipOff is a real time middleware analysis and passive latency monitoring appliance that delivers Precision Instrumentation across all standards based and vendor proprietary middleware stacks.  

Precision Instrumentation has become critically important to enterprises whose business processes rely on the timeliness and integrity of complex middleware infrastructures.

Passive Latency Monitoring

TipOff supports passive latency monitoring of market data and transaction flows.  By decoding packet streams in real time through all layers from network up to application message content, TipOff can monitor both packet and message latency, accounting for retransmission latency in the reliability layer.  A single multi-hop flow may comprise several different middleware stacks or protocols.  TipOff supports flows that undergo transformations through order aggregation, trading engines and execution venues.

Latency Root Cause Analysis

TipOff supports latency root cause analysis by leveraging its thorough analysis of the middleware stacks that comprise each hop in a data flow.  The most significant source of latency is retransmission latency resulting from lost packets.  TipOff monitors the internal operation of reliability layers within protocols such as TCP, RV, LBM and RRCP, providing protocol specific statistics and early warnings of operational conditions that result in increased latency.

Multidimensional Middleware Analysis

TipOff captures all observed middleware traffic, categorising statistics according to source, destination, namespace and layer.  This data can be drilled down in multiple dimensions.  Metrics can be used for middleware tuning, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and proportional chargeback of shared infrastructure usage.

Application Behaviour Validation

TipOff tracks message streams published by applications, monitoring the quality of the data for signature signs of application code that has been poorly optimized for bandwidth minimization.  Such applications are often the greatest source of operational issues within complex middleware infrastructures.

TipOff Latency Feed

TipOff is able to republish latency and other middleware statistics as a real time meta-data feed enabling trading applications to share a common view of data latency by leveraging their existing market data API connection.  TipOff supports a range of both push and pull API for integration with other monitoring tools and products.