We are happy to announce that Ridgecrest is releasing QxLink in March 2009. QxLink is a total product solution with consists of FIXAdaptor, FIXMonitor and FIX Log Viewer.
Here we discuss the features of the product FIXMonitor.
About FIXMonitor
FIXMonitor is a solution for all the FIX users to capture the FIX traffic of a network and to view it with advanced filtering features. It will non-intrusively monitor your FIX infrastructure and gives you a real-time display of all FIX messages while simultaneously persisting all messages to a database.

You can run FIXMonitor in both Windows and Unix environments. The web based GUI allows you to view FIX traffic in any major browser. And the configuration can be done through the config files including the network you need to capture.
Database Supportability
We provide the facility to persist the FIX traffic to a database. The database can be configured in Oracle, PostgreSQL or in MySQL and the implementation supports DB2 and Sybase though we haven't tested on them yet.
We provide couple of views for the user to view the FIX traffic.
- Current View
- Archive View
- Log View
Current View
The current view displays the real time FIX traffic and allows you to filter the traffic. The current view is limited to 150 messages.
Features available in the current view
- Filters according to message types
- Hide heartbeats
- Filters according to session
- Filters according to originated IP address
- Provides the user defined alerts for price and quantities
- Provides a search option for messages
- Hides message header and tailor
- Search within the FIX messages
- Orders messages accordingly to received time
- Supports for custom filters
Archive View
In archive view you can select a session which u need to view the relevant archived FIX traffic.
Features available in the archive view
- Quick view of the archived messages with easy navigation buttons
- Filter messages according to message types
- Hide heartbeats
- Display messages according to selected session
- Provides a search option for messages
- Filter messages according to a date or date range
- Support custom filters
- Hides message header and tailor
- Order messages accordingly message received time
- Search inside a FIX message
- Allow to generate reports for the FIX traffic
Log View
In log view we provide the facility to view the FIX standard log files with the features of current view.
Integration with FIXAdaptor
As FIXMonitor comes under QxLink with FIXAdaptor, you can generate a configuration file for FIXAdaptor for message transforming. FIXAdaptor allows you to transform messages for the defined rules for a session.
You will be able to download QxLink by March 2009 and if you have any comments or suggestions about QxLink please let us know. It will help us to improve our product further.
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