No one likes it when the network is down. We have come to rely so heavily on the network for data sharing, remote access, communication and collaboration, when it’s down work can quickly grind to a halt. It’s not great for business, slowing down teams, stopping sales and impacting customers. Effectively managing network performance issues is critical to maintaining this productivity.
Here are a few ways that greater network visibility can help to find and fix network performance issues before they impact business.
Proactive Monitoring for Network Performance Issues
Proactive monitoring: Network visibility tools allow businesses to continuously monitor the network infrastructure, collecting data on network performance, traffic patterns and device behaviour. This proactive monitoring helps detect anomalies, bottlenecks or unusual activity that may indicate a network issue before it escalates into a major problem.
Real-time troubleshooting: With network visibility, IT teams can access real-time data and insights into network traffic, device status and performance metrics. This allows them to quickly pinpoint the root cause of network performance issues, such as network congestion, faulty devices or misconfigurations, allowing them to take immediate action to resolve the problem.
Traffic analysis: Detailed traffic analysis, including protocols, bandwidth usage and traffic patterns are possible with network visibility tools. This helps in identifying abnormal traffic behaviour, unauthorised access attempts or network security threats. By analysing traffic patterns, network managers can quickly identify and mitigate potential network performance issues or security breaches.
Managing Device-Specific Network Performance Issues
Device monitoring and management: With comprehensive monitoring of network devices including routers, switches, firewalls and servers, IT teams can monitor device health, performance metrics and configurations to identify any device-specific issues that might impact network connectivity or performance. Timely detection and resolution of device-related issues can minimise network downtime and improve overall network reliability.
Troubleshooting collaboration: Network visibility tools facilitate collaboration among IT teams by providing a centralised platform for sharing network data, logs and analysis. When troubleshooting complex network performance issues, different team members can access the same set of network visibility data, allowing for efficient collaboration and faster problem resolution.
Better network visibility with ThousandEyes
ThousandEyes is an enterprise-class solution that delivers unprecedented visibility by combining network and application synthetics, end user monitoring, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route visualisations and network and application outage detection. This visibility helps to identify the source of a network issue in real time, so businesses can diagnose and fix problems quickly.
Orro leverages ThousandEyes in network architecture to speed up troubleshooting and provide unparalleled visibility and insights into the digital experiences of users. With an end-to-end view and ability to simulate transactions, VOIP calls and other activity on the network, businesses can understand and improve the digital experiences of every employee and customer. ThousandEyes can also help check network status before and after any migration, and when used in conjunction with our unique One Touch Control (OTC) network management platform, delivers clear evidence of any network performance issues.
According to the Australian Cyber Security Centre, visibility is a pillar of security. Networks play a crucial role in helping businesses with better communication, collaboration, data sharing, resource utilisation and overall efficiency. To keep the network running smoothly, network visibility is critical for quickly identifying and resolving any network performance issues.
With real-time monitoring, traffic analysis, device management and collaborative troubleshooting, network visibility is the ultimate tool for IT teams. By leveraging these insights, businesses can quickly identify and resolve network performance issues, reduce downtime, optimise performance and ensure a more reliable and efficient network infrastructure.
Fix Network Performance Issues with Orro
Gain better visibility of your network infrastructure for greater performance, resilience and efficiencies with an Orro secure network and ThousandEyes.
