Beeks Analytics is a suite of products that records and analyses latencies at network and application level, delivering exceptional, real-time insight into performance so that our clients can build, maintain, and deliver a trading environment that gives their customers the best trading experience, or edge.

Beeks Analytics provides unrivalled visibility that enables you to track and analyse the real-time performance of every single message traversing business critical processes. Identify outliers and bottlenecks, understand capacity issues, verify new system roll-out performance, and ultimately ensure delivery of a consistent and high-quality trading environment.

Some example use cases that are solved by Beeks Analytics:

  • Do I have performance problems with any of my trading counterparties?

  • Is the problem inside my infrastructure or outside my infrastructure?

  • I need an overview of the flows going across my network to assist with troubleshooting and capacity.

  • I need to maintain Service Level Agreements within my trading system for my customers.

  • I need to exactly reproduce a period of sub-par performance in my trading system to try some possible solutions.

Beeks offers different flavours of Beeks Analytics, which are each designed to serve the needs of different organisations. These are:

  • Beeks Analytics for Markets

  • Beeks Analytics Enterprise

The typical deployment for most clients is Beeks Analytics for Markets. See below for key features of Beeks Analytics for Markets.

Key Features

  • Quick-to-configure templated deployment of Beeks Analytics system.

  • Focuses on monitoring network communication at the edge and performance of trading venues that you connect to.

  • Supports monitoring of multiple Visibility Points.

  • Monitors all network traffic with dedicated dashboards for TCP, UDP, Market Data, and Order Entry. These dashboards provide visibility of:

    • Bandwidth

    • Packet loss

    • Multiple granularities of microburst measurement

    • Wiretime

    • Feed comparison

  • Tracks and alerts on discrepancies between claimed and actual PTP-synchronised message receipt times.

  • Identify outliers and drill into order lifecycle and individual transaction details to resolve performance issues.

  • Full market data and orders packet capture with user configurable queries via VMX-Explorer and the VMX-Prism API.

Key Benefits

  • Rapid Templated Deployment

    • Uses a template of abstracted higher-level configuration concepts to drive the creation of the lower-level configuration of the VMX-Capture and VMX-Analysis components, ensuring a rapid, robust and scalable deployment.

  • Detailed Analysis

    • Decodes trading protocols and normalises messages for consistent storage, enabling comparative performance reviews.

  • Performance Alerts

    • Allows for setting performance thresholds and alerts to ensure a fast, reliable trading environment.

  • High-Quality Data Assurance

    • Ensures incoming market data quality, quantifies bandwidth usage, and helps with future growth planning by analysing market data burstiness and volume trends.