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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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…
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.
Checkmk is a solution for IT Monitoring of servers, applications, networks, cloud infrastructures (public, private, hybrid), containers, storage, databases and environment sensors. It can be deployed under all major Linux distributions or users can run it as Docker container…
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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…
Great Bay Software was an IoT security and operational efficiency provider offering visibility and control over endpoints on the network so organizations can secure data, preserve customer trust and protect revenue. Their flagship solution, now branded the Plixer Network Intelligence…
Juniper Mist Wired Assurance brings cloud management and Mist AI to campus fabrics. It provides network management by moving campus deployments toward AI-driven operations, which helps deliver better experiences to connected devices. The Juniper Mist Cloud streamlines deployment…
Gluware provides code-free Intelligent Network Automation. Gluware Config Model Editor provides Intent-Based configuration management for large-scale enterprise networks. Users can automatically detect configuration drift and run config audits across a multi-vendor network.
NEXOG is a provider of network management and orchestration (MANO) solutions that are specially designed for managing and monitoring multi-vendor wireless, satellite, broadcast, IoT, and smart-city networks. Available as SaaS or hosted on-premises, the NEXOG Platform has been deployed…
Noction Flow Analyzer (NFA) is a flow-based monitoring and reporting software that collects, stores, and presents both real-time and historic traffic data across an entire network. It helps to analyze and understand a network’s traffic patterns, bandwidth utilization, hosts and…
Polaris is a monitoring platform, from Arisant. The vendor states ordinary monitoring products offer a variety of out-of-the-box metrics and alerts, but most of the time, IT staff has already developed custom scripts that are tailored for monitoring custom applications and databases.…
The NETSCOUT ISNG Platform available as software or in an appliance (InfiniStreamNG) consolidates data from a variety of specialized analytics tools and provides service assurance, application performance management, cybersecurity and business intelligence. NETSCOUT's next-generation…
Infinera, headquartered in Sunnyvale, offers the Transcend Network Management System (NMS), supplying a network operating system and supporting network planning with graphical modeling and configuration. The suite consists of the Infinera Graphical Node Manager (GNM), Infinera Digital…
Syncsort Network Management provides network performance data and network management tools, now from Precisely.
LiveAction's LiveSP is a network performance monitoring and reporting software for global service providers (GSP) and managed service providers (MSP). The solution provides visibility, monitoring, and reporting for multi-tenant networks to help MSPs provide best-in-class service…
Cyber Monitor is a network management software to monitor the network traffic and performance, manage the bandwidth and operation of the network, receive the early notification and warning for the abnormalities, automatically get the inventory of devices in the network and some…
Exoprise delivers visibility at the intersection of cloud apps, users, and networks. This is to enable organizations to continuously improve user experience and increase productivity. Exoprise helps to proactively detect problems before users are affected, isolate the root cause,…
Bleemeo is a Cloud Monitoring Platform that allows DevOps and IT teams to monitor their infrastructure from the servers to the applications. Bleemeo aims to give a complete live picture of the user's infrastructure, in 30 seconds: - agent discovers services and creates checks and…
Haystack from Plume Design is a back-end software suite for superior subscriber experience management. The solution aims to elevate personalization and performance over basic connectivity to meet the needs of ever-evolving smart homes. It provides end-to-end visibility of a provider'…
IPTV, OTT, DVB quality monitoring software. Boro provides effective control of content delivery networks and ensures localization of common violations. Boro probes can be distributed across the entire network: at head-end station, at input streams monitoring points and after transcoding,…
Netmon is an all-in-one network monitoring appliance solution featuring real-time packet sniffing technology, device performance monitoring, syslog & event log monitoring and custom alerting in a centralized platform. With this solution, users can monitor their entire network…
CDNify is a website optimization platform. Its key features include real-time statistics, custom SSL, and and SSD optimized network.
DX Virtual Network Assurance (formerly CA Virtual Network Assurance) is a next-generation network monitoring tool enabling management of software-defined network (SDN) architectures along with traditional infrastructure, from Broadcom company CA Technologies.
Ziften in Austin offers ZFlow, a network monitoring device designed to eliminate blind spots in NetFlow data, available for Mac and Linux as well as Windows.
TruePath's Line Monitoring Software (LMS) is a cloud-based platform comprising: - Easy to use monitoring software - Customer centric graphs and reports (with data warehousing) - Built-in web portal for end customers
EMCO Remote Shutdown is a network management application, from Icelandic company EMCO Software.
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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: