Network and Application Performance Monitoring
Enterprise networks always grow, always change and always increase in complexity. For example, emerging technologies such as Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) may solve some of the cost-benefit issues facing businesses, but they also add significantly to the burdens facing IT administrators seeking to monitor exactly what is happening on their network. This lack of real-time insight severely limits administrators' ability to spot and correct service interruptions before they become serious threats to overall network performance.
Lancope's StealthWatch enterprise architecture addresses these concerns. StealthWatch is the first and only flow-based solution designed to integrate network optimization and security within a single unified enterprise architecture. As such, StealthWatch is an ideal solution for organizations seeking to gain real-time visibility into all aspects of network operations and to minimize service interruptions due to security events or unexpected network usage demands. By taking a more comprehensive approach to network performance, StealthWatch enables faster response to any incident that affects overall network integrity.
By having both real-time and historical network data readily available, including source and destination address/port, Round Trip Time (RTT), Server Response Time (SRT), Quality of Service (QoS), top talkers, User IDs and bandwidth utilization, just to name a few, network administrators can more quickly and efficiently determine the root cause of performance issues and bottlenecks – network, server or application. Issues can also be traced all the way down to the exact application and user responsible, greatly reducing mean time to know (MTTK) and minimizing downtime. StealthWatch eliminates the manual analysis and time-consuming management associated with conventional network monitoring technologies, allowing network teams to do more with less.
The StealthWatch Advantage for Network Operations:
- Provides a unique, integrated, real-time overview of network usage, network performance and host integrity – with information easily customized for each administrators' individual responsibilities
- Utilizes existing NetFlow, IPFIX and sFlow routers and switches as well as native capture flow information to provide a truly comprehensive and cost-effective approach to network security and optimization, also integrates external monitoring for even greater contextual awareness
- Dramatically reduces the time necessary to diagnose and separate security and network events from each other, and then to generate an appropriate response
- Supports highly segmented, high speed internal networks and fully meshed network environments without requiring complex, expensive infrastructure upgrades
- Documents historical information and trend analysis that accelerate network performance capacity planning and advanced resource management
