Keeping with tradition from previous years, CloudPhysics Inc. is debuting a major new iteration of its monitoring service at VMworld 2015 this morning that promises to help virtualization administrators become a lot more proactive in their work. That means catching risky configuration settings and stopping emerging problems before they have a chance to spread.

CloudPhysics, the brainchild of former senior VMware Inc. executives, facilitates that through a web-based monitoring console that provides insights into the operation of virtual environments. The individual metrics with which that’s tracked can now be manually correlated to identify links between changes to the infrastructure and outages, both future and present.

Coupled with filtering options that make it possible to take the unnecessary details that are the bane of such troubleshooting efforts out of the equation, that functionality allows administrators to trace failures back to the root cause in order to avoid repeating the same mistake in the future. That’s a potentially much more effective approach than simply combating problems as they surface.

The ability to drill down into problems that way is useful not only for preventing major outages but also ironing out everyday issues like performance hiccups that can potentially prove even more difficult to fully understand. CloudPhysics lets administrators double down on the specific period sin which an application exhibits undesired behavior and examine how different parts of their infrastructure behave during those time frames in search for the problem.

For organizations that don’t want to spend the person-hours needed to perform that digging, if for no other reason than to reduce the time their end-users spend waiting after an outage, the startup is launching 20 new pre-packaged analytics functions. The lineup covers everything from checking infrastructure health to preempting operational hazards.

The analytic apps can be downloaded from CloudPhysics’ online app store, which also features tools developed by partners. All of the capabilities of are available immediately except the correlation functionality, which is currently in limited trials and will roll out sometime later this year.

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