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🚀 Introduction

AppControl is a modern, lightweight monitoring solution designed to keep your business-critical applications running smoothly with minimal downtime. Unlike traditional tools that focus on infrastructure, AppControl takes an application-centric approach to monitoring.

AppControl supports both legacy and cloud-native applications, making it a flexible and powerful solution without the complexity of traditional tools.

Try AppControl Now and discover how it can streamline your application monitoring.

🌟 Why AppControl?

Traditional monitoring tools like Centreon, Zabbix, and Nagios can feel outdated, bloated, and overly complex in today's distributed cloud environments. They were built for monolithic applications running on a few servers, but modern applications are distributed, built on microservices, and hosted in hybrid environments.

AppControl offers a fresh approach:

  • Application-Centric Monitoring: Focus on your applications, not just the infrastructure they run on.
  • Simple and Scalable: Ideal for small to medium-sized businesses, but scalable for more complex environments.
  • Re-use Existing Monitoring Scripts: You don’t have to start from scratch. AppControl can incorporate your existing monitoring scripts from other tools like Centreon or Zabbix.

🎯 Key Features

  • Unified Dashboard: Get a real-time view of your applications with status indicators for running, stopped, degraded, or error states.
  • Automation: Automate recovery actions to reduce manual intervention and prevent downtime.
  • Custom Actions: Perform on-demand diagnostic actions for detailed insights.
  • Notifications: Receive alerts via SMS, Teams, or email as soon as incidents occur.
  • Extensibility: Use custom scripts and checks to extend AppControl’s capabilities.

🔧 Solving Critical Problems for Your Applications

AppControl addresses key challenges businesses face when managing applications:

  1. Application Downtime and Slow Incident Response Unplanned downtime can severely impact operations. AppControl’s real-time monitoring and automated recovery help minimize downtime and accelerate incident response.

  2. Complexity of Managing Hybrid Applications Managing both legacy and cloud-native applications can be complicated. AppControl provides unified monitoring for all your applications, removing the need for multiple tools.

  3. Difficulty in Monitoring Critical Business Applications Most monitoring tools focus on infrastructure metrics, missing key application-level insights. AppControl prioritizes the health and performance of your business applications.

  4. Lack of Visibility into Application Availability AppControl tracks and reports application availability, providing the metrics you need to ensure optimal performance and uptime.

  5. Challenges in Application Scaling and Maintenance As businesses grow, so do the challenges of scaling applications. AppControl's flexible architecture and cross-platform agents make scaling simple, even in complex environments.

AppControl Feature Gallery

AppControl Dashboard

Real-time Dashboard

AppControl Notifications

Instant Notifications

AppControl History

Map View

AppControl Automation

Automation Tools

AppControl History

Actions History

💡 Use Cases

  1. Critical Business Applications: Ensure uptime and performance for mission-critical applications like CRM or ERP systems with AppControl’s automated monitoring and recovery.
  2. Hybrid Cloud Applications: Monitor applications hosted across cloud and on-prem environments, with automatic management of dependencies.
  3. Legacy Infrastructure Modernization: Modernizing infrastructure can be challenging. AppControl supports legacy systems and allows the re-use of existing scripts, easing the transition to modern infrastructure.

💻 Getting Started

Getting started with AppControl is straightforward:

  1. Sign up and deploy cross-platform agents (Windows/Linux) in your infrastructure.
  2. Configure your applications using YAML-based files to define components.
  3. Reuse existing scripts from tools like Centreon or Zabbix for additional checks.
  4. Monitor and manage your applications from AppControl’s intuitive dashboard.

Find detailed instructions in our documentation.

🛠 How It Works

AppControl operates with a flexible, cross-platform architecture:

  • Agents: Lightweight agents gather application metrics from your infrastructure.
  • Gateway: Connects your infrastructure to AppControl’s SaaS platform securely.
  • Applications & Components: Applications are described in YAML, outlining their structure and dependencies for easy management.
  • Actionable Insights: Perform diagnostics and set up automated recovery processes to minimize downtime.

📖 Documentation

You can find full documentation, including installation, configuration, and best practices, on our GitHub Pages.

💬 Join the Community

Need assistance or have questions? Reach out through:

🙌 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Submit pull requests, open issues, or provide feedback via GitHub.

📄 License

AppControl is licensed under the Apache License. See the LICENSE file for details.


Make application downtime a thing of the past. Start using AppControl today!