Hyperic Gives hi5 What it Needs to Succeed

In February of 2006, after reading about Hyperic on a simple Google
search, the hi5 team signed up for an enterprise trial. They downloaded
Hyperic HQ directly from Hyperic’s site, and within minutes were using
the software to inventory hardware, software and services in the hi5
infrastructure.
Immediately the team recognized that Hyperic provided far more
coverage then its predecessors. The HQ product monitored both Resin
and PostgreSQL natively – two key technologies that Big Brother did
not recognize. Additionally, the team could now see the performance
heuristics of their infrastructure over time, which was critical to being
able to pinpoint the genesis of a problem. Since HQ was designed to be
extensible, the team was able to write additional metric collectors that
layered feature usage and business metrics on top of the performance
data. The hi5 website serves up a variety of media fi les including photos,
music and video – and the addition of these metrics enable the company
to correlate performance with a spike in not just user traffi c, but fi le
downloads of the hottest new tunes or raciest new video.