The following is a listing of network observability tools, along with a brief description of their offerings.

Featured Provider

Kentik: The Kentik AI platform helps simplify the process of troubleshooting complex networks for engineers, operators, architects, and developers. The company this year has introduced a modern, AI-assisted Network Monitoring System (Kentik NMS), which modernizes network monitoring by integrating traffic flow data with real-time, custom, and streaming device metrics on a single extensible SaaS platform. This enables engineers to correlate diverse telemetry from distributed infrastructure easily, enhancing their ability to rapidly identify and resolve network problems. The company has also introduced Kentik Query Assistant, which utilizes an LLM infused with network-specific context. This tool allows users to ask questions about their network in natural language, enabling Kentik to provide insights and answers by tapping into its extensive data repository. In addition to the Query Assistant, Kentik has rolled out Kentik Journeys, an AI-assisted troubleshooting workflow designed to streamline the process of addressing complex network issues. It enables a more efficient investigation by allowing engineers to drill deeper into problems with each query, based on a comprehensive understanding of the user’s network. Kentik NMS, on the other hand, modernizes network monitoring by integrating traffic flow data with real-time, custom, and streaming device metrics on a single extensible SaaS platform. This enables engineers to correlate diverse telemetry from distributed infrastructure easily, enhancing their ability to rapidly identify and resolve network problems.

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Other Providers

Broadcom: NetOps by Broadcom offers a robust set of network observability and management capabilities at scale, providing multi-vendor coverage and advanced analytics for network issues, performance, network resource optimization and user experience in a unified solution.

Cisco AppDynamics helps organizations plan, execute, and quickly address any technical and performance issues with an end-to-end view of every application, hybrid cloud infrastructure element, or network function that your business depends on.

Catchpoint helps optimize performance, availability, reliability, and reachability from where it matters most: where your users are. The company’s global observability network has over 2,600 vantage points inside your network, inside wireless carriers, at routing points, and on core Internet infrastructure across the world.

Datadog offers complete visibility into any dynamic environment. Unify and correlate data from disparate sources, rapidly resolve performance issues, and secure your cloud environment in real-time.

Dynatrace provides complete observability across PaaS and container technologies, process detection and resource utilization, network usage and performance, log monitoring, even incorporating third-party data and events into our full stack view.

LogicMonitor goes beyond basic metrics and ties all your supporting systems into one view for true hybrid observability. Universally predict and optimize costs, enhance application performance, get the metrics you need to make decisions about the health of your multi-cloud or hybrid stack.

ScienceLogic provides the SL1 unified IT operations platform for actionable insights across your entire network infrastructure—WAN, LAN, SDN, routers, switches, firewalls, and more. Monitor availability, network traffic, performance, configuration, utilization, and capacity for any network technology.

SolarWinds PerfStack dashboards visually correlate data from network interface utilization, application performance counters, or VM host memory utilization to compare these data types side by side on a common timeline. 

Splunk (a Cisco company)  Act before infrastructure performance affects end-user experience. Instantly detect and accurately alert on dynamic thresholds, multiple conditions and complex rules to eliminate alert storms and dramatically reduce MTTD/MTTR.

SumoLogic Get a complete view of your cloud infrastructure, on-prem and hybrid environments with Sumo Logic Infrastructure Monitoring. Make smarter decisions, throttle and optimize capacity, reduce unplanned outages and resolve application performance issues before they impact users.