Business value

BMC Performance Manager for Infrastructure as a Service (BMC Performance Manager for IaaS) provides PATROL for Amazon EC2, a Knowledge Module (KM) that enables you to discover and monitor resources hosted in the Amazon public cloud environment. This product enables you to monitor the performance of the cloud environment and optimize the service level by using the following capabilities:

• In-depth monitoring capabilities:
  With PATROL for Amazon EC2 you can configure multiple accounts provided by Amazon Web Services and collect performance data by leveraging the data collection and monitoring capabilities of the PATROL Agent. You can monitor the following services:
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
  • Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  • Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
  • Amazon Route 53
  • Amazon AutoScaling
  • Amazon ElastiCache

• Improved visualization through automatic creation and maintenance of Amazon Web Services topology construct views.