The Application Sunburst widget is used to identify poor performing applications.

It Shows application activity and performance impact for the selected location in a sunburst.

When you select a location, the widget shows the applications in a sunburst presentation indicating "if" and "how much" an application is affected with different colors. The sunburst provides an intuitive way of determining if only a single application in the location is affected or if all applications are affected.

The user can identify where the problem lies within the organization by looking at affected applications(s) in the selected time frame. You can expand or collapse the root node of the tree as well as children nodes in order to identify the specific application.

The sunburst presentation is based on the activity for the selected location. The size of the Applications in each ring is determined by the number of computers accessing the application, known as 'online computers'. The applications are colored based on how many computers experience degraded performance on the application:

• Green: Less than 10% of the online computers are affected
• Yellow: 10-20% of the online computers are affected
• Orange: 20-30% of the online computers are affected
• Red: More than 30% of the online computers are affected

You can view the number of affected applications and impact details such as how big the threshold violation was by placing your cursor over a specific application.

Set Up the Widget

Select what You Want to View

Your PerformanceGuard administrator has typically set up the widget to view the affected applications.

When that's the case, you can simply use the Location menu in the top part of the dashboard to view the number of affected computers for selected Time Period.