How to Enhance Your Network Monitoring with Progress Flowmon

A good application experience for end-users is essential to keep staff productive and customers happy. Making sure that applications and the networks that deliver them are performing as they should is challenging and can be a full-time task if not supported with intelligent and easy-to-use monitoring tools. Data from analyst firm ZX Research shows that 90% of an IT team’s issue troubleshooting time disappears figuring out where a problem lies. Additionally, the Network Management Megatrends 2018 study by Enterprise Management Associates reports that 35% of ALL network management time goes on reactive troubleshooting after an issue surfaces.

These figures are not surprising. We’ve all encountered the scenario where an application user reports that “the system is slow”. No more data is forthcoming, and it’s then up to the IT team to figure out where the problem is and who needs to fix it. Often this leads to the classic ping-pong between developers, server system admins, and the network team, who all say that it’s not their problem and point to the other teams. And troubleshooting time drains away.

There Has to Be a Better Way!

Many organisations have a network visibility gap, leading to the extended times needed to locate issues reported by end-users. IT teams need tools to continuously monitor the network, establish a baseline, and pinpoint precisely where problems lie. And these monitoring tools should alert you about issues before they impact users and lead to imprecise helpdesk support calls!

Progress Flowmon plugs the network visibility gap. It monitors hybrid cloud-based networks and applications via a machine learning backed expert system that can discover, analyse, and provide remediation advice using industry-standard frameworks such as the Mitre ATT&CK Framework.

How Progress Flowmon Plugs the Visibility Gap

Flowmon captures and analyses multiple types of network traffic and telemetry information in real-time. Flowmon highlights issues by examining the data and comparing trends against known configuration issues and cyberattack vectors. An easy-to-read dashboard presents an overview of the network status, as shown in the sample screenshot below.

The machine learning backed analyser in Flowmon provides:

• A single screen on which to visualise the network state across the whole environment, backed by comprehensive alerting.
• Quickly highlight any issues causing performance degradation.
• Reveal bottlenecks, analyse errors, and automate the detection of abnormal behaviours.
• Pinpoint precisely where a problem is and avoid the back and forth that often accompanies reported application performance issues.

The Benefits of Deploying Progress Flowmon

Organisations obtain many benefits after deploying Flowmon to monitor their network. The benefits include:

• Top expert experience- the built-in knowledge in Progress Flowmon provides industry network and cybersecurity expertise that goes well beyond that contained within a typical organisation. Plus, it delivers expert suggestions for remedial actions.
• Reduce business impactby detecting issues, capturing data, determining the root cause, getting suggested fixes in real-time, and preventing hours or days of poor performance or downtime.
• Consolidate network tools- get monitoring of availability, capacity, compliance, forensics, and troubleshooting from one expert system and an easy-to-use dashboard.
• Automating analytics- autonomous investigation of the root cause of any issues.
• Build an audit trail- build a troubleshooting audit trail, but at the same time only record and store the data needed for post-event analysis to reduce the resources required to store audit information.

Connect with Progress Flowmon Experts at Cyber Expo

Experts from Progress Flowmon will be attending Cyber Expo & Conference Ireland 2022. They will be present in the Expo Hall, where you can chat with them about their platform. They will also be part of the expert presentations and panel discussions within the OT Security Stream. The Cyber Expo & Conference Ireland is on the 28th of April 2022 in The Leopardstown Pavilion at Leopardstown Racecourse, and you can register to attend via this Eventbrite page.

If you would like to chat with an expert about Progress Flowmon outside of the Cyber Expo & Conference, then contact Renaissance.