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The Ultimate Network Monitoring Checklist

This document provides a checklist for an effective network monitoring solution. It lists key capabilities the solution should have, including monitoring all applications from any location, integrating passive and active data sources, monitoring network changes in real-time, establishing performance baselines, measuring true user experience, relating performance to business goals, allowing data sharing between solutions, and scaling with business growth. The ideal solution would be able to check all boxes, such as AppNeta through its unique approach combining network path data, packet capture, web synthetics, and flow insights.

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The Ultimate Network Monitoring Checklist

This document provides a checklist for an effective network monitoring solution. It lists key capabilities the solution should have, including monitoring all applications from any location, integrating passive and active data sources, monitoring network changes in real-time, establishing performance baselines, measuring true user experience, relating performance to business goals, allowing data sharing between solutions, and scaling with business growth. The ideal solution would be able to check all boxes, such as AppNeta through its unique approach combining network path data, packet capture, web synthetics, and flow insights.

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CHECKLIST

The Ultimate
Network Monitoring Checklist

Your network spans multiple cloud providers, third-party services, and an always-growing web of remote locations.
Does your team have the comprehensive visibility to tie it all together?

Here’s a quick checklist you can reference to ensure that you have all the data and insights you need to manage your
network effectively.

You’ll want a solution that can...

MONITOR DIGITAL EXPERIENCE OF EVERY APP


There shouldn’t be a barrier to what you can see. Bring your whole network into view with a platform that
looks at the big picture while giving you a microscope into any and all issues.

By knowing both the apps using network capacity and the users themselves, IT can make decisions regarding
routing or bandwidth allocation based on behavior. Solutions should be able to cover SaaS, web, mobile or
legacy systems. A full picture will help inform policies and buying decisions going forward, but a gap in visibility
could result in unintended network resource constraints.

INTEGRATE PASSIVE DATA SOURCES


Integrating flow data with deep packet inspection helps identify what apps are affected by issues and helps
find the entire footprint of the incident. When it’s all integrated, you can take action.

Pairing insight from raw telemetry data through packets, flows, and SNMP to active data sources results in a
solution that can provide hop-by-hop detail across the entire app delivery path -- without putting additional
“weight” on the network -- to see where issues might arise, or already have.

ACTIVELY MONITOR NETWORK CHANGES


The underlying networks we use every day change constantly. So if data isn’t collected when an issue occurs IT
can be left guessing as to what changed and when.

Dynamic networks change so frequently that identifying conditions even minutes after an issue is reported by
a user can sometimes be impossible. Active, continuous monitoring fixes this by being always-on and ready to
identify issues in real-time, alerting IT to trends adversely affecting users

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BASELINE PERFORMANCE FOR PROACTIVE ALERTING
Getting an understanding of what users expect for performance and meeting those standards is essential. Get
the insights you need to identify issues before they impact performance.

By baselining performance of the network and apps, teams can get ahead of potential performance roadblocks
before they reverberate across the business. This allows teams to establish standards for performance that can
be measured throughout the organization.

OFFER TRUE USER EXPERIENCE MEASUREMENT


When experience is impacted, users want answers. You need to alert users to changes on the network as soon
as they occur so teams can take action in real time, and users retain confidence in IT.

By measuring end-user experience from where users are located -- whether in a remote location or at
headquarters -- IT can meet their marching orders while enhancing end-user experience. Go beyond simple
availability checks and use synthetic transactions to emulate actual user workflows.

TIE PERFORMANCE VISIBILITY TO BUSINESS GOALS


Achieve a wide-ranging view of network performance of applications and networks so that executive
stakeholders are never left in the dark.

Whether you are holding a network vendor to an SLA or monitoring capacity changes of an ISP, monitoring
should help your team put all of the pieces together by seeing our solution in action. Monitoring should align
with business goals and help IT make decisions, not distract from them.

INTEROPERATE WITH OTHER SOLUTIONS


Data can no longer live in silos. When necessary, active or passive monitoring data must be accessible by other
solutions for applications like NOC views.

Complexity in networking combined with the sheer amount of data from IT systems that is available today means
that monitoring solutions must be able to provide their data for correlation of issues across the business.

SCALE WITH YOU AS YOU GROW


Enterprises are never at a standstill so when your business grows your monitoring tools have to be ready to
adapt and be flexible enough to keep up.

Whether you’re starting your monitoring journey or simply looking for an upgrade, you need to prepare for scale.
Monitoring is best when it is consistent and complete. Scaling your business only to realize your monitoring
solution can’t keep pace means gaps in visibility that can haunt you down the road.

AppNeta is the only network performance monitoring solution that can check all of these boxes, thanks
to our unique 4-Dimensional approach to monitoring that collects data on network paths, packet capture,
web synthetics and flow insights. By combining these four data sets into a single visualization of network
performance, AppNeta gives teams the context and analysis they need to tackle issues before they impact
end users.

ABOUT APPNETA
AppNeta is the only network performance monitoring solution that delivers deep, actionable, end-to-end network performance data from the end-user perspective.
With AppNeta’s SaaS-based solution, IT and Network Ops teams at large, distributed enterprises can quickly pinpoint issues that affect network and business-critical
cloud application performance, regardless of where they occur. AppNeta is trusted by some of the biggest Fortune 1000 companies, including 3 out of the 5 largest
corporations in the world, as well as 4 out of the 5 largest cloud providers. For more information, visit www.appneta.com
1.800.508.5233 | [email protected] | APPNETA.COM

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