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Top 5 Network Monitoring Tools Of 2022
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The blackout started in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, spreading to North America on 12th October. It affected millions of BlackBerry customers and left them without e-mail, BlackBerry Messenger and other essential Internet-based services. The cause of the disruption was attributed to the company's failure to test the transition to a backup switch on the network connecting their global data centers.
Could you imagine anything like that happening today? Absolutely not! That is because most companies have learned (from BlackBerry's mistakes) to deploy robust tools that constantly monitor the health of their network resources. Such a tool would have immediately alerted the administrator that the backup switch was not correctly configured in the above case. Moreover, they monitor other aspects of a network, such as traffic, bandwidth utilization, uptime, etc. and provide status updates on other elements that comprise the network.
Enough build-up! Let's talk about them - presenting the top Network Monitoring Tools of 2021!
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Imagine it's the Black Friday sale on Amazon. You're all excited to buy the latest iPhone, which is surprisingly available at half price to the first 100 users as a launch offer. Too good to be true? We know! That's why we started with IMAGINE.
The sale goes live. You add the iPhone to your cart and as soon as you proceed for payment, the Amazon app crashes. Don't be so disappointed – it was a hypothetical sale, anyway! So, what happened? The Amazon folks were so busy marketing the offer to lure customers and boost sales that they failed to prepare for a situation where the campaign worked and millions of users jumped on the app simultaneously. Their network could not cope with the number of buyers on the app - and the app server eventually crashed.
Coming out of our hypothetical picture, you'd think such a scenario might not happen IRL. However, during a six-day outage, Bank of America customers (about 29 million at the time) were unable to access their account information. The reason? Simply, higher-than-anticipated traffic!
So, join us as we look at the top 5 Network Monitoring Tools of 2022 that can save you from a no-so-hypothetical nightmare!
Top 5 Network Monitoring Tools Of 2022
Networking Monitoring Software allow real-time comprehensive monitoring of every possible component of your IT network in an automated manner. Each of these tools will give you these capabilities – and more. Dive right in to find our top five picks – the best in their game.
Also, just like the Harry Potter movies (we love them all!), we can’t rank these – so we’re going with a random play here
Solar Winds Network Performance Manager![]() |
Paessler PRTG Network Monitor |
Datadog Network Performance Monitoring![]() |
Progress WhatsUp Gold![]() |
LogicMonitor |
Tool 1: SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor
You’d find SolarWinds being mentioned in almost every conversation around IT management software. With over 20 years in the industry, SolarWinds boasts of the highest market share in Network Management Software, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). Additionally, it also has the second highest market share in Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (NPMD) arena.
The company’s Network Performance Monitor is unmatched at detecting changes in configuration (one of the most common reasons for network security issues to arise) and that too in real-time. That’s not all, using critical path mapping and intelligent visualization, it makes tracking errors to the source quick and easy.
Along with an amazing vulnerability scanner, it tracks compliance policies and alerts you when you are defying any bandwidth or traffic regulations. The best part about SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is that it is every easy to install and work with – thanks to its intuitive UI!
Tool 2: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor
As a part of the IT infrastructure monitoring industry for nearly 25 years now, Paessler has earned the trust of over 300,000 companies across the globe. An industry leader in providing monitoring solutions, Paessler was recognized April 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools. In 2008, the company had launched the PRTG Network Monitor by converting its existing products PRTG Traffic Grapher 6 and IPCheck Server Monitor into a single solution.
The tool is known for its ease of use, irrespective of the size of company. It is an agentless, scalable solution that can practically monitor any IT assets in your network. Every router, every printer, every website and every firewall that’s connected to your business network will be tracked by the software. That’s not all, you can monitor up to 100 of such assets at no cost with PRTG Network Monitor. No kidding!
We haven’t gotten to the best part yet. The tool allows ‘agentless monitoring’- so you can monitor assets without have to install a software agent of them. If the PRTG server can access the system, you can do every possible check on it.
Tool 3: Datadog Network Performance Monitoring
A comparatively younger ship in the sea, Datadog is all about monitoring with modern tools and practices. A little over 10 years old, Data has been earned several laurels in the past, including the InfoWorld’s 2020 Technology of the Year Award - and for good reason. The company has leveraged Cloud capabilities, Machine Learning and Data Analytics to take monitoring beyond bug tracking and log file parsing to deliver a global view of every system, network, application and service.
Datadog’s Network Performance Monitoring tool takes care of infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management on cloud servers, without having to install any physical infrastructure. Imagine the costs saved! With these cloud capabilities, it has an APM (application performance management) with distributed tracing, with no sampling. That means it considers all traces of issues in your network and analyzes them instead of trying to find the issue using a previous sample issue.
That’s not it. The reason we call Datadog the modern Network Monitoring Tool is that it has a very graphical customizable dashboard with which you can search and drilldown on CPU metrics and get code level insights. Why do you need that? Well, how else would you get to the root cause of a bug in a jiffy? There’s more - you can integrate Slack into your Datadog dashboard and collaborate and fix issues in real time.
Tool 4: Progress WhatsUp Gold
They say ‘old is gold.’ Well, that’s quite literally the case here. Progress has been providing software products to businesses for over 40 years now. As a trusted choice of 100,000 enterprise customers, a three-million-strong developer community and more than 1,700 software vendors, Progress is known for finding simple software solutions to complex business challenges. Their Network Monitoring Tool, WhatsUp Gold is one of them.
For those just starting out with a networking monitoring solution, WhatsUp Gold could be a good choice. Even though it’s quite powerful and comprehensive yet equally easy to use. #NoComplications! Thanks to its intuitive and non-messy user interface. In a world where DevOps, Uptime and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) tools are often considered too technical to handle – WhatsUp Gold can make you believe otherwise.
So far, we’ve given you agentless tools and the traditional software agent driven. WhatsUp Gold brings you the best of both worlds. That means you could deploy the software agents on known accessible IT assets and go agentless on those you wish to monitor remotely.
Tool 5: LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor is also new-age company revolutionizing monitoring technology. Within 13 years, the company has gained the trust of over 25,000 users and bagged the title of a market leader in G2’s Spring 2021 report for five categories including Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring and Network Monitoring.
The platform’s Networking Monitoring solution can monitor every physical, virtual and cloud-based network in your business and track their performance in real-time. It has simple yet in-depth visualizations of the system and its assets to give a complete view of how each asset is connected. Since it’s an integrated platform, you get several other capabilities including Cloud monitoring, Server monitoring, Database monitoring and Configuration monitoring along with Network Monitoring.
Our favorite feature is that it lets you customize your alerting system such that specific employees are notified directly about an issue depending on the type of the issues in real-time. So, you can get the right team fixing a bug instead of losing valuable time communicating the issue across verticals until it reaches the concerned people.
Why Take The Pains?
It won’t happen to us or we can manage just fine, can be a good excuse but if you’re looking to grow, you’ve to got to invest in customer experiences. Believe us, nothing annoys a customer more than a website that takes forever to load.
Network Monitoring Tools were not very high up the priority ladder for businesses a few years back – but that’s changing now and for good reason. Let’s take the example of Amazon. It records sales worth $4,722 every second. That amounts to $283,000 in a minute. So if their network faces disruption for a single minute, the business loses about two hundred thousand dollars!
Clearly, the cost of dealing with a network outage would be much higher than the cost of a Network Monitoring Tool. So, don’t hesitate to invest in one!
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