Network Observability and Visibility Matters
As technology has evolved, the complexity of network configurations and architectures have grown exponentially. Nowadays, it is even more crucial to acquire insight into the internal state of networks in order to properly manage software applications, infrastructure performance, user experience as well as overall reliability. This level of observability enables organizations to remain ahead in terms of productivity and stability – making sure that impacts from changes are positively managed before any issues arise for users or customers.
Network observability is extremely important to IT network operations teams in order to keep the network up. Without it, they would be unable to monitor or detect any potential issues in their network. Network observability also provides visibility into how different parts of the network are performing and communicating with each other, giving operators a better understanding of how the overall system is functioning. This can help to identify any weak points in the network and allow them to take corrective action to improve performance and reliability. Additionally, network observability helps network operations maintain compliance with industry standards and regulations by providing the necessary data needed for audits and certification processes. Finally, network observability allows operations to more quickly troubleshoot any issues that may arise in their networks, improving response times and reducing overall costs associated with solving technical problems.
Network observability also allows operations to more effectively monitor network security threats and quickly respond to any suspicious activity. Network visibility at the packet data level provides insight into malicious traffic, allowing operators to detect potential threats before they can cause significant damage. This enables organizations to better protect their networks and customer data from malicious actors. Additionally, this ability to rapidly identify and respond to threats can help minimize the risk of a security breach. In today’s hybrid-cloud environment, companies need complete visibility into network traffic across multiple areas: on-premises, in the data center, and in the cloud or hyper-cloud. This requires a comprehensive solution that incorporates network observability into the overall network architecture. Network observability enables operations to gain greater insight into their networks and ensure they are consistently meeting performance, reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency goals. By leveraging a single source of truth across multiple cloud environments, organizations can quickly identify issues before they impact customer experience or performance.
Network Packets are Essential
Network observability is key to keeping businesses running smoothly. With the right platform, it’s possible to gain unprecedented visibility into your network without sacrificing performance or risking packet drops. Unfortunately, many network observability tools today can drop packets when the network is overloaded or having traffic spikes. Network packet drops can be detrimental to network observability platform, and it can be very costly to the business. Today’s network administrators need the right network observability tools that can capture all the packets without drops in order to monitor and analyze their network and application performance properly. The single source of truth across all the networks is all the network packets which are seen and analyzed by the observability tool. As these packets travel across the network, they provide insight into performance indicators such as application performance, latency, packet loss, and retransmissions helping operators to identify problems quickly and resolve them before they cause disruptions or impact customer experience. Network observability is essential for businesses to get a clear view of their networks. Network packets provide an invaluable source of information that can be used to identify and address issues with network performance, security threats, or overall network health. That’s why it’s so important for organizations to capture all the network packets received on their systems.
Packet Drops Can Be Costly
Network observability is a cost-effective way to reduce downtime, improve efficiency and ensure that operations are running smoothly. With it, operators are able to stay ahead of any potential network overload issues and maintain the highest levels of performance.
With network traffic growing at an exponential rate, traditional network observability tools are no longer enough to maintain visibility and control of your networks. These tools can’t keep up with the growth in traffic, often dropping packets or missing issues that could cause problems down the line.
Network packet drops can be a costly problem for many organizations. Network downtime, data losses and poor customer service are all potential risks when network packets are dropped. According to Information Technology Intelligence Consulting (ITIC), 40% of enterprises said a single hour of downtime can cost between $1 million and over $5 million – exclusive of any penalties, fines, or legal fees. In a Gartner survey, 98% of companies stated the cost of IT downtime ranged from $100,000 to $540,000 per hour. If packets are dropped due to network spikes or inadequate bandwidth, then network observability Platforms can become ineffective as they lose important data. Network packet drops can result in inaccurate, delayed, and incomplete network insights as it drastically reduces the amount of available data points necessary to detect anomalies and problems within your IT infrastructure. This makes it difficult to quickly identify sources of a potential network issue or malicious attack, resulting in longer mean time-to-resolution (MTTR) to get back to normal operations. Network drops can also lead to loss of service, revenue and customer trust.
Hypercharge Network Observability Platform
For the network observability platform to be effective, you need proper tools that can capture all the packets on the networks without packet losses. First, you need non-intrusive network taps that can passively mirror network packets without causing unnecessary overheads like many monitoring probes. Second, you need packet brokers that can properly filter out irrelevant packets while sending only relevant packets to your monitoring and security tools. This can save companies money since many of these tools charge by the total amount of packets sent to them regardless if they are relevant or not. By filtering out irrelevant packets, packet brokers can protect network monitoring and security tools from being overwhelmed during network traffic spikes. Third, you need packet capturing and storage products that can properly store all the network packets across your networks, whether it is on-premises, in the data center, in the cloud, or across hybrid-cloud. cPacket Networks provides all the necessary tools to empower the network observability platform (see diagram A). cPacket’s cTap product line can passively and transparently mirror network packets where it is needed. Packet Networks’ cVu packet broker observability nodes can smartly filter out irrelevant network packets while only sending relevant network traffic to the proper network monitoring and security tools. cPacket’s cStor packet capturing solution observability nodes can capture packets at wire speed in real time while avoiding packet drops. cPacket’s cClear’s customizable dashboards provide interactive drilldown into unbiased traffic details and KPIs from real-time and historical data from our packet brokers and recorders. At the same time, cPacket platform can interface with many third-party network observability tools by smartly filter network packets for these tools through APIs so these tools will only analyze packets that are relevant. Will all the packets be properly captured, stored, and filtered based on customer requirements, network operators have the proper data to analyze and diagnose application and network issues. cPacket’s cStor packet capturing solution combined with cPacket’s cVu packet brokering solution provides network operators complete view of the Network traffic, Network performance, application performance, and network packet drops.
With cPacket’s hybrid observability solution, network operations are able to effectively monitor network data, detect network packet drops, identify network issues and provide a rapid response time for troubleshooting purposes. Contact cPacket today and enjoy a more reliable network experience.
