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Introduction
How is eValid Rich Internet Applciation Monitoring different from other types of monitors?

• Actual User Simulation
  eValid monitoring is an actual user activity simulation with the instrumented eValid browser test engine. This is not an HTTP/S "simulated transaction," a low-level ping or traceroute execution -- tests that confirm your hardware is alive and responding but don't tell you anything about whether customers are being well served.

  »   Your Benefit: This means you get the real deal, the real application -- no fakes and approximation. You have confidence that your customers are getting the right level of service.

• Session Context Maintained
  Your test session context established and maintained Each copy of eValid runs and remembers exact context of session.

  »   Your Benefit: eValid's tests can handle the most-complex kind of customer authentication and order processing possible. If a customer can do it from a browser, eValid can do your application exactly the same way. You server won't know it's a robot driving the browser.

• True "Last-Mile" Test
  Runs from "last mile" over a DSL connection similar to real customers. Not from a LINUX box in a data center with a T1 connection. eValid tests are run from a standard consumer-type DSL line.

  »   Your Benefit: The response time and download size measurement data you get are 100% real -- there's no estimation or complex calculation involved.

• Great Diagnostics
  In case there is a problem you have great diagnostic and forensic data available in the eValid EventLog file that shows the complete transaction history.

  »   Your Benefit: When there is a problem you can pinpoint exactly what the problem is quickly -- and fix it immediately.

• You Server Doesn't Know
  Your server cannot tell it is not being used by a real user. eValid is a complete browser, and your transaction includes every part of your rich internet application.

  »   Your Benefit: The data processing load imposed by an eValid test is identical to that of a real user. So you can see how well your servers respond during peak usage time by measuring how long your robot-driven eValid user session takes at the same time.

• Realistic User Waits and Pauses.
  You can even make the recording yourself and confirm its operation.

  »   Your Benefit: Many monitoring systems don't even know about user think time, but eValid tests have that built in. A recording made by eValid of what a user actually does -- including think time -- plays back with complete accuracy and reproducibility.

• Three-Tier Rich Internet Application Reality
  Three-tier rich internet applications are 100% realistic. Not faking it, as some services do with "transaction monitoring" that actually is a sequence of HTTP/S puts and gets.

  »   Your Benefit: If you really want to know what your customers experience in terms of response time you have to have a 100% real user simulation. eValid gives this to you.

• Total Flexibility
  eValid monitors your website application capability by actually playing back realistic sessions emulate user actions of all kinds, e.g. file download, email, etc. You can monitor essential features of your web application -- or other parts of your business process.

  »   Your Benefit: No other service offers this kind of reality. If you can do it from a browser, eValid can record it and play it back 100%. Every time.