AppNeta vs. Azure Network Watcher

AppNeta is awesome for getting site-to-site statistics or trying to find out why at 3 am every night, this server loses connectivity to another server in a different data center. But we have found the multiple bugs in the hardware hard to deal with when the devices are a 4-hour plane ride away and require someone to console into the device.

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Azure Network Watcher is well suited to monitor or diagnose logs for azure virtual network, managing connection/relationship between virtual networks. Diagnose network traffic, network traffic etc. Overall, it is appropriate to use in monitoring, diagnostic and logging activities for resources in azure virtual network. It is mainly used in infrastructure as a service component.

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• AppNeta provides detailed application availability & uptime.
• AppNeta provides great longitudinal data regarding how the applications perform including an overall grade or "AppDex."
• AppNeta sends notifications of service downtime that aids in technical dispatch.

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• View resources and theri relationship
• Diagnose network routing problems
• View security rules for a network interface

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• Hardware has a lot of bugs.
• Auto-updates cannot be turned off on the hardware, causing blips in monitoring.

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• More granular visualization through the Azure Network. Ex. Seeing NSG Flow through each Hop.
• Allow for more capabilities to view Connectivity through On-Premise Networks.

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Timely support is one of AppNeta's strong suits. But the ability to develop permeant fixes for issues within there product is where they lack.

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We currently use Nagios/GroundWork and Cacti to perform network monitoring. AppNeta's UI is far superior.

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Azure Network Watcher can help with resources in the Cloud if this device is able to send traffic. We are using Azure Network Watcher in cases Solarwinds can't cover easily like API to load balancers & additional testing.

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• A reduction in network outages and length of network outages.
• More detailed post outage investigation available.

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• Positive impact as it helps in setting up critical alerts
• Monitoring network, hardware
• Customizable reports can be set which helps in business objective

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