X-Ray

To use idle capacity well, you have to know how each machine behaves. X-Ray shows it, and points out what to do about it.

Live

• What the machine is using now: processor, memory, disk and network.
• What is running on it, process by process, with the ones that matter most to the company marked, such as a database.

Over time

• The usage history for the last 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days, with the average and the highest point of each stretch.

• The peaks: when the machine ran close to its limit, and what was using it most at that moment.
• The bottlenecks: how many hours the processor or the memory spent above 90%, and how fast the disk is filling up.
• The work it did: how many hours of work the machine delivered to services in the period.

What you find out with it

• When each machine is really free. A finance machine busy from 8 to 6, with a peak at lunchtime when the closing database and the antivirus run together, and the whole night to spare: that is where heavy work fits.
• Who competes with whom. When an important program, like a database, shares the machine with service work, X-Ray says so, and the limit for that machine is one click away.

• What is about to go wrong. A disk that, at this pace, fills up in three weeks shows up before it stops anyone.
• What to buy, and what not to. Memory that sits above 90% for hours says more memory helps that machine. A processor that is idle at night says no new server is needed for night work.

The list of processes over time is available on Windows machines. On the other systems, X-Ray shows the live view and the history of processor and memory.