Network Monitoring Tools
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Atera is a platform that enables IT professionals to gain access, visibility, and control over all their networks and devices from anywhere. Users can manage their IT operation from patch management, IT automations, advanced reporting, alerts, helpdesk, ticketing, and it features…
ScienceLogic is a system and application monitoring and performance management platform. ScienceLogic collects and aggregates data across and IT ecosystems and contextualizes it for actionable insights with the SL1 product offering.
Catchpoint is an Internet Resilience solution offering services for retailers, Global2000, CDNs, cloud service providers, and xSPs that help increase their resilience by catching any issues in the Intenet Stack before they impact their business. Catchpoint's Internet Performance…
Cisco Catalyst Center (formerly Cisco DNA Center) is a network management system that leverages AI to connect, secure, and automate customer’s network operations. It harnesses the Catalyst family of switching and wireless through AI-enabled automation that simplifies the IT experience…
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OpenText Network Node Manager i is a network management platform acquired by Micro Focus from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and now supported by OpenText.
OpenNMS Meridian is a scalable open source network management platform with network traffic analysis, network discovery, alerting, and monitoring. It's presented as a solution to monitor enterprise network performance and ensure the availability and performance of critical network…
TeleMate is a platform that enables users to see their entire UC&C environment in a single dashboard so they can proactively monitor, troubleshoot and analyze. The vendor states they have been providing vendor-agnostic full-stack UC&C visibility and monitoring for 35 years.…
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SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability aims to provide a comprehensive, integrated, and full-stack solution designed to optimize performance, improve availability, and reduce remediation time by correlating data from across the IT ecosystem, including networks, servers, applications,…
LiveAction’s LiveNX is a network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It supports packet-level, network-wide visibility and proactive alerts. It can be deployed on-premise, virtually, or in the cloud.
Cisco DNA Analytics and Assurance is a network management and monitoring product providing increased network visibility and simplified management.
DX Spectrum (formerly CA Spectrum) is network fault management software, from Broadcom company CA Technologies.
NetVizura NetFlow Analyzer, from Soneco, is designed to help network admins with network traffic monitoring, analysis and reporting. The vendor says their solution enables users to do the following: Monitor network bandwidth on routers and interfacesMonitor custom traffic on IP…
SolarWinds Network Automation Manager is designed to scale to environments of all sizes while providing comprehensive performance, traffic, WAN, and switch port monitoring, automated change and configuration, and IP address management in a single, unified software solution. Key…
PacketTrap was network monitoring software acquired by Dell but discontinued in 2013.
Indeni aims to make it easy to manage the infrastructure of digital businesses. With Indeni Knowledge and Indeni Crowd companies can create an infrastructure that is adaptable to change. The product offers a deep set of integrations to critical devices, built-in automation, and…
SysKit, in Zagreb, offers SPDocKit as the Ultimate SharePoint On-Premises Administration Tool, used to automate routine administrators’ tasks such as document configuration and exploration of SharePoint structure.
Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Unicenter NSM) reached end of life (EOL) in 2015.
AIOps from Broadcom is a solution designed to enable IT teams to converge full-stack monitoring across the digital environment with intelligence and automation. With AIOps, teams establish proactive, automated remediation capabilities to drive user experiences, while improving operational…
Selector employs machine learning and NLP-driven, self-serve analytics to provide access to actionable insights. Selector Analytics uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to conduct three essential functions and provide actionable insights to network, cloud, and application…
Netcool Network Management integrates the IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus and Netcool Configuration Manager products into a unified solution that consolidates the management of networks.
Constellix aims to make the Internet faster and more reliable through multi-cloud and multi-CDN management powered by intelligent traffic routing services. Constellix is a subsidiary of Tiggee, the creators of DNS Made Easy , and the provider of IP Anycast enterprise DNS services.…
Colasoft Capsa is a network performance monitoring and protocol analyzing tool. Capsa provides core monitoring features, as well as automated diagnostics and packet decoding. Colasoft offers a limited free version of the software.
ManageEngine's EventLog Analyzer provides log management, auditing, and IT compliance management. It can be downloaded for Windows or Linux.
Pandora FMS is a flexible monitoring solution. It is presented as ideal for medium and big-sized environments with at least 100 devices. Users can monitor any device, infrastructure, application, IT as well as business processes and services. It allows business users to obtain information…
The Aviatrix cloud network platform aims to bring multi-cloud networking, security, and operational visibility capabilities that enterprises customers require. Aviatrix software leverages public cloud provider APIs to interact with and directly program native cloud networking constructs,…
BlueCat Gateway is an enterprise automation platform that turns business logic into automated DDI workflows, and integrates with adjacent systems & technologies.
OP5 offers server monitoring solutions that are designed to help IT staff gain control over their operations and deliver more effective IT services for better business. The vendor’s value proposition is that their solution is designed to monitor anything and everything - whether…
FortiMonitor is a comprehensive, SaaS-based digital experience monitoring (DEM) platform that helps organizations modernize their performance-monitoring tools. It provides visibility into endpoint application performance and digital experience—no matter where the user resides or…
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What are Network Monitoring Tools?
Network Monitoring Tools are the activities, methods, procedures, and tools utilized in the operation, administration, maintenance, and provisioning of networked systems.
Network monitoring tools continuously monitor a network for problems such as slow or failing components (caused by overloaded and/or crashed servers, network connections or other devices), and will alert the network administrator in case of severe slowdowns or outages. Commonly measured metrics include response time, availability and uptime, consistency and reliability.
Network monitoring systems are typically employed on large scale corporate IT networks. Additionally, some tools also work alongside network monitoring tools to supplement the data collected by providing additional network context to improve the depth, accuracy, and quality of the data these tools collect and analyze.
Network Management Systems
Network monitoring tools often share features with network management systems (NMS). The primary difference is that NMS products let administrators configure and control networks.
Network monitoring tools give IT teams visibility into network status, health, and usage. A product strictly designed for network monitoring likely won’t include administrative features like resource provisioning, access management, and network configuration.
Components of Network Monitoring
- Network Operation keeps the network running. It monitors the network to find and identify any problems as soon as possible, and ideally before users are even aware or affected by those problems.
- Network Administration is a broad area of network management that tracks and assigns resources within the network.
- Network Maintenance involves monitoring, repairing and upgrading the hardware and software that make up a network.
- Network Provisioning activities ensure certain services are supported within the network, monitors access rights and privileges for security, and configures network resources to support various services (usually related to telecommunication protocols and devices).
Network Monitoring Tools Comparison
To compare network monitoring options, you should consider the following factors:
Network Managment Features: Many products and services include both network monitoring and network management in one product or platform. If you only want network monitoring features, don't pay extra for a product that has network management features. Conversely, if all-in-one monitoring and management is your goal, don't choose a product tightly focused on monitoring alone.
Real-Time Visibility: Many network monitoring tools provide real-time insight into network infrastructure, while others focus on after-the-fact analytics. Businesses looking for constant visibility into their network should be sure they are considering options with real-time visibility.
Automation Features: Some network monitoring tools provide automation features to determine thresholds and identify network devices without a need for human labor. If you are looking to reduce human labor as much as possible, be sure to choose a network monitoring tool with a robust set of automation features.
Infrastructure Analytics: Some network monitoring tools also provide analytics on network applications and software usage. If your business is looking for an all-in-one analytics tool, consider a network monitoring tool that provides additional support for infrastructure analysis.
Pricing Information
There is a very broad range of options available, from low end, free or open-source systems, to higher end enterprise platforms that can be quite expensive. Many higher-end systems are close to $10,000 for the first year of use, and some are considerably more.
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What do network monitoring tools monitor?
What are the best network monitoring tools?
The highest rated network monitoring tools are as follows: