Compose IT has officially released Self Monitoring 3.0 (SM3) – a major upgrade to its intelligent monitoring platform for COP (Compose Operation Platform) environments. This latest version brings a cleaner interface, deeper insights, and smarter automation to help the monitoring team maintain control, improve uptime, and simplify day-to-day operations.
A Unified Dashboard for Complete System Awareness
At the heart of SM3 is a redesigned Home Page that provides an instant, real-time overview of system health.
The status bar now summarizes all active alarms, nodes, monitors, and rules at a glance. Each element is fully interactive — allowing users to click through to detailed views or configuration pages.
The Active Monitors section highlights the performance and current state of all connected monitors. Meanwhile, an interactive Heat Map visually tracks alarm activity across the past week, using color gradients to quickly indicate which node groups have experienced the most issues.
At the bottom of the dashboard, administrators can review status per node, including weekly alarm statistics, CPU and memory usage, and disk or load metrics — all accessible through a few clicks.
Detailed Insights at Every Level
SM3 makes troubleshooting faster and more intuitive with improved detail views.
Users can now drill down from a system overview to individual node metrics, historical alarms, and even software inventory with ease.
Key views include:
- Status Page – Filter, search, and manage alarms in real time. A simple right-click allows acknowledging, unacknowledging, or deleting alarms.
- Topology View – See your full infrastructure layout, organized by role and node group. Active alarms are listed alongside each component.
- History Page – Explore historical status changes for any source, with flexible date and time filters.
- Software Inventory – View all installed applications across your environment.
- Metrics View – Compare performance data across multiple nodes and time periods.
Together, these features turn SM3 into a single pane of glass for both real-time monitoring and historical analysis.
Smarter “Call Home” and Multi-Source Monitoring
One of the standout enhancements in SM3 is the Call Home function.
This feature aggregates data from multiple environments or customers and displays their overall health in a color-coded status and environment matrix.
Each status indicator is clickable, revealing detailed alarm information for the selected source. Administrators can also filter by environment or focus only on active or critical alerts, making remote monitoring more efficient and proactive than ever.
Enhanced Configuration and Automation Tools
Version 3.0 introduces a powerful and flexible Settings section that gives administrators full control over how monitoring is performed.
Here you can configure:
- Nodes – Automatically registered when an SM3 Agent is installed, with default monitors and rules applied.
- Monitors – Define the checks performed by the SM3 Agent and how often they run.
- Alarm Rules – Determine how results are evaluated and when alerts are triggered or sent to external systems like Omnibus or Call Home servers.
- Metric Rules – Specify which numeric results should be saved and displayed as performance metrics.
- Definitions – Establish monitor logic, role mappings, and expected JSON outputs.
- Credentials, Users, Node Groups, and Sources – Manage access, structure, and connectivity securely.
Every setting page supports sorting, searching, and inline editing, ensuring smooth and efficient configuration even in large environments.
Precision Monitoring with JSON-Based Rules
SM3’s rule engine has also been refined for greater precision and flexibility.
Both Alarm Rules and Metric Rules evaluate monitor results using JSON keys and support a range of logical operators, including equality, inequality, comparison, and regular expressions.
This structure allows administrators to define thresholds with pinpoint accuracy — for example, triggering alerts when CPU usage exceeds a certain percentage or when a service’s response time deviates from normal values.
All thresholds, messages, and event IDs can be customized, ensuring alerts are meaningful and actionable.
Designed for COP Operations
With its balance of automation, visualization, and configurability, SM3 is built to monitor and manage COP environments.
It helps operations teams stay ahead of incidents, maintain performance visibility, and standardize monitoring across all COP systems — local and remote.
By combining smart dashboards, detailed metrics, and flexible rules, SM3 continues to evolve as a reliable platform for the Compose Operations Platform.
