Network Infrastructure Monitoring
Improve service and reduce downtime with fault, performance, and availability monitoring
Network infrastructure monitoring is critical to ensure business service delivery. Using multi-vendor IT infrastructure monitoring software can help reduce downtime, increase employee productivity, and improve ROI. SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM) offers monitoring for fault, performance, and availability using features like cross-stack network data correlation, hop-by-hop network path analysis, and much more. By leveraging these powerful network infrastructure monitoring tools, you can more effectively manage your network performance and act before service goes out.
Troubleshoot quickly and effectively using cross-stack network data correlation
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor infrastructure monitoring tools can allow you to expedite the troubleshooting process, leaving you with more time to focus on your business rather than network firefighting. You can use network troubleshooting tools to detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance issues quicker by automatically discovering and mapping devices, viewing real-time performance metrics, and more. With network troubleshooting tools, you can more easily fix performance issues and save your business from network outages.
Gain deeper visibility into network devices
Networks today often contain a combination of on-premises and cloud-based devices often not well covered by standard infrastructure monitoring tools. The Network Insight™ feature included in SolarWinds NPM can help simplify the management of complex network devices and infrastructures by providing actionable information for each device's unique role in the network. Network Insight for Cisco ASA and F5 BIG-IP can also help reduce visibility gaps into critical network switches, firewalls, and load balancers.
Monitor network infrastructure components to detect issues in real time
When your network infrastructure incorporates multiple different devices, you need an easy-to-understand, bird’s-eye view of your network. NPM is built to allow network admins to monitor performance metrics for each component in your network combined with hop-by-hop network analysis to enable more streamlined troubleshooting.
NPM is built to offer monitoring for your most important infrastructure components, including:
- Routers
- Switches
- Firewalls
- Load balancers
NPM is designed to provide the tools you need to quickly identify network performance issues by allowing you to leverage actionable insights, such as hardware health and capacity metrics, from devices with customizable network alerts.
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What is network infrastructure monitoring?
Network infrastructure monitoring allows network admins to troubleshoot performance issues more efficiently and effectively.
The process of network infrastructure monitoring often begins with the comprehensive discovery of your network devices. To successfully troubleshoot performance issues, you should monitor the availability of each component connected to your network.
Network infrastructure monitoring can track a variety of on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure components, such as monitoring Cisco devices like Nexus and ASA to help you better understand and ensure network connectivity. You can also monitor a mixture of cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure like load balancers, firewalls, and hardware.
How do network infrastructure monitoring tools work?
With network infrastructure monitoring tools, network admins can more easily identify the root cause of performance issues within network infrastructures. To detect performance issues, a monitoring solution can help you more easily track device availability, performance metrics, and faults within your infrastructure.
IT infrastructure monitoring tools should allow you to manage on-premises network components alongside cloud services to provide a more holistic view of network performance.
Automated alerts are also a key component of an effective IT infrastructure monitoring solution. To prevent a massive influx of alerts, your monitoring software should allow you to customize alert thresholds to trigger alerts to focus on the issues important to you, such as problems that can lead to poor end-user performance. These real-time alerts can allow you to troubleshoot infrastructure performance issues as soon as they arise.
What are the features of network infrastructure monitoring tools?
For network admins, IT infrastructure monitoring tools should provide a comprehensive view of your network devices and their relationships with one another.
A common way to view network infrastructure is by using a network map. However, traditional network maps often lack critical information to help put performance slowdowns in context with network pathing. IT infrastructure monitoring views like NetPath™ can allow you to more easily understand the performance, traffic, and configuration details of devices in your network to more easily identify network issues and resolve slowdowns. Auto-generated network visualizations and interactive displays of devices, applications, networks, and vendors can also help you more quickly understand the network processes that contribute to connectivity issues to the services your end users care about.
What are the benefits of using a network infrastructure monitoring tool?
A network infrastructure monitoring tool can allow you to prevent downtime and improve the end-user experience more easily by providing you with enhanced visibility of your environment and the relationships between devices.
Other advantages of network infrastructure monitoring tools include:
- Identifying performance issues faster: Determining network issues is a fundamental step in optimizing performance. Network infrastructure tools for monitoring are designed to provide real-time alerts to identify network performance issues and help you perform root cause analysis.
- Streamline troubleshooting: To effectively troubleshoot network infrastructure issues, you need a comprehensive understanding of how your network devices interact with one another. Network infrastructure monitoring software can offer intuitive charts and data visualizations layered with in-depth performance metrics to help you gain deeper visibility of on-premises and cloud-based devices.
- Reduce downtime: When systems are down, profits can also suffer. By better ensuring availability and spending fewer hours trying to identify and resolve performance issues, businesses help maximize their cash flow.
- Improved end-user experience: For network admins, providing a flawless end-user experience is the ultimate hallmark of success. Network infrastructure monitoring can allow you to more easily identify and troubleshoot network device issues before they affect end-user experience.
With such an extensive list of services that can help save time and money, an investment in network infrastructure monitoring software can help you provide better services that can result in bigger savings down the line.
How does network infrastructure monitoring work in NPM?
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) offers a useful bird’s-eye view thanks to its included network infrastructure monitoring tools and features, such as:
- Advanced device monitoring: NPM provides multi-vendor network device monitoring, including specially-designed Network Insight for Cisco ASA, Cisco Nexus, Palo Alto firewalls, and F5 BIG-IP load balancers.
- Detailed infrastructure monitoring: NPM provides monitoring tools for your on-premises devices and cloud environments for a more comprehensive view of network infrastructure.
- Maps and visualizations: NPM data visualizations can allow network admins to better understand network map and device functions at-a-glance, so you can identify issues quickly and have better control over your network.
SolarWinds NPM offers a detail-oriented approach to network infrastructure monitoring and is built to be easy to use with intuitive displays, fast configurations, and a wide range of device monitors to allow you to minimize downtime and optimize network performance more easily.
What is network infrastructure monitoring?
Network infrastructure monitoring allows network admins to troubleshoot performance issues more efficiently and effectively.
The process of network infrastructure monitoring often begins with the comprehensive discovery of your network devices. To successfully troubleshoot performance issues, you should monitor the availability of each component connected to your network.
Network infrastructure monitoring can track a variety of on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure components, such as monitoring Cisco devices like Nexus and ASA to help you better understand and ensure network connectivity. You can also monitor a mixture of cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure like load balancers, firewalls, and hardware.
Real-time insights for network infrastructure monitoring
Network Performance Monitor
- Comprehensive fault monitoring and performance management for your network.
- Get to the root cause quicker with intelligent, dependency and topology-aware network alerts.
- Hop-by-hop analysis of cloud or on-prem applications or services.
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NPM, an Orion module, is built on the SolarWinds Platform
