Plumbr was an Estonian software product company founded in late 2011[2] that developed performance monitoring[3] software. The Plumbr product was built on top of a proprietary algorithm that automatically detected the root causes of performance issues by interpreting application performance data.[4] In October 2020, Plumbr was acquired by Splunk.[5]
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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Application Performance Monitoring tools |
Founded | 2011 |
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Defunct | 2020 |
Fate | acquired by Splunk |
Headquarters | |
Products | Plumbr Browser Agent, Plumbr Java Agent |
Number of employees | 17[1] |
Website | plumbr |
Products
editPlumbr monitored customers' JVM applications for memory leaks, garbage collection pauses and locked threads.[6] Plumbr problem detection algorithms were based on analysis of performance data of thousands of applications.[7]
Plumbr consisted of an agent and a portal. Plumbr Agent was attached to application runtime and sent memory usage and garbage collection information to Plumbr Portal.[8] On Plumbr Portal one could see information such as heap and permgen memory usage, garbage collection pauses' and lock contention duration. Clients that were not able to send data to third parties could order a self-hosted portal and have a full solution in-house.[9]
In case of performance incidents Plumbr provided its users with information on problem severity and problem's root cause location in source code or runtime configuration, and listed the steps needed to take to remediate the problem.
Clients included NASA, NATO, Dell, HBO, Experian, EMC Corporation.[10]
References
edit- ^ Nõlvak, Lilian (16 February 2015). "Plumbr story: from a research lab to the global market". estonian world. Retrieved Feb 24, 2015.
- ^ O'Hear, Steve (12 November 2013). "Estonian Startup Plumbr Raises $1M To Make Memory Leaks A Thing Of The Past". Techcrunch. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- ^ "Plumbr transitions from app troubleshooting to app monitoring". SD Times. 28 October 2014. Retrieved Nov 10, 2014.
- ^ O'Hear, Steve (18 February 2015). "Plumbr, The Java Performance Monitoring Startup, Picks Up Backing From Skype Co-Founder Jaan Tallinn". Techcrunch. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ^ Lardinois, Frederic (20 October 2020). "Splunk acquires Plumbr and Rigor to build out its observability platform". Techcrunch. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ^ "Locks - Plumbr". Retrieved Nov 6, 2014.
- ^ "Estonia's Plumbr Gets Serious as a SaaS Memory Leak Solution". ArcticStartup. Archived from the original on 2014-11-11. Retrieved Nov 11, 2014.
- ^ "What data is monitored? – Plumbr". Retrieved Feb 24, 2015.
- ^ "Hosted Plumbr - Plumbr". Retrieved Nov 6, 2014.
- ^ "Plumbr - Java Performance Monitoring". Retrieved Nov 6, 2014.