AppFirst picks up $4 million from Javelin

Ronny Kerr · September 6, 2011 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/1e95

App problem resolution technology to cure headaches in the IT and DevOps departments

AppFirst, an SaaS-based provider of an application problem resolution system, announced Tuesday that it has raised a $4 million Series A funding round led by Javelin Venture Partners, with participation from original backers FirstMark Capital and First Round Capital.

As part of the agreement, Javelin managing director Noah Doyle will join the company’s board of directors.



With its patent-pending “Miss Nothing Data” technology,” AppFirst enables application architects and development-operations teams to offer customers the most reliable and best performing applications, no matter how many servers IT has to deal with.

This includes problem resolution for finding and fixing problems faster, file search and visualizations, customizable alerts and much more. For some good use cases of AppFirst, check out this page, which explains it all clearly.

“Our company has recognized phenomenal adoption with over 2,000 applications monitored and over 40,000 hours of product usage in less than a year,” said David Roth, CEO of AppFirst. “Partnering with Javelin, and expanding our existing relationship with FirstMark and First Round, will give us the fuel to expand our team and continue to scale operations to support ongoing growth.”

Testimonials from some current clients of AppFirst can be found on the company’s home page; some names listed there include AdBuyer, Baynote, Burgiss Group, CloudSigma, Dell Boomi (a part of Dell since November 2010), Isotop AB, IT Passion, MapleTime, Sbemco and SocialSci.

Additionally, the company is partnered with Amazon, Couchbase, Engine Yard, OpSource, SoftLayer and others.

Interested parties can try out AppFirst under its free 14-day trial, after which they can switch to two pricing plans. For .75 cents per server per hour, the “Standard” plan includes cloud provider management, API access and other basic AppFirst features. For 2.5 cents per server per hour, the “Professional” plan also throws in more advanced features for resolving issues and correlating data from multiple sources.

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AppFirst is a SaaS-based application monitoring tool that provides complete visibility of an application, helping companies proactively identify and address potential performance issues, plan for future growth, and gain understanding of their application's execution. At AppFirst we work hard to remove the limitations due to incomplete information, we: 

*Provide information in such a way as to represent complete details of all app components for all language runtime environments without impacting your production systems. We call this “miss nothing” data collection. 
*Utilize information gathered from plugins, log files and OS interfaces to correlate with “miss nothing” data in order to provide views in a specific context. We call this polled data since the information is gathered on intervals. 
*Present data clearly and simply to help you easily identify problems and patterns.

The combination of a complete data set representing all elements of all of your applications, regardless of component type or language, along with the means to correlate that data within a specific context is the most powerful and effective monitoring solution available anywhere. The limitations have been removed. 

Our Values 
-Customer-centric 
-Transparency 
-People first 
-Fun 
-Give Back

Specialties

Server Monitoring, Neweorking Infrastructure Solution, Cloud Computing, Software/Application Evaluation