The Network Monitor

Active Directory (AD) is in many ways the lifeblood of your network, especially in terms of user and identity management. AD has become the core directory service for most enterprises, keeping track of users and IT assets, allowing all these to be identified and manipulated.

Quality of service can be viewed as measuring the performance of a network or telephone service, thereby providing an indication of its quality.

A network key performance indicator (KPI) is a measurement and benchmark for achieving optimal network performance goals. To support these goals, measuring actual performance against the KPI goals helps the network team make decisions to improve and sustain network performance and service levels.

A Domain Name System (DNS) helps convert your domain names into accessible IP addresses, and it is crucial to understand how to monitor activity on a DNS server.

Have network problems pinpointed for you.

Network downtime is no fun for anyone. End users (tied to their computing devices) don’t know what to do, customers and partners can’t do business with you and IT pulls out more hair than a barber shop floor.

Any IT pro worth their salt knows all about adopting cloud computing and its benefits, from faster innovation cycles to flexible deployment.

WhatsUp Gold release 2023.1 includes several exciting updates meant to close gaps in Network Visibility.

Zero Trust is ever more vital as enterprises move to the cloud and the workforce becomes more remote.

Public sector organizations including federal, state and local government, military, education, law enforcement, transit, public health care and myriad others, have needs very different from their commercial counterparts.

IT teams within enterprise companies must monitor multiple infrastructure components and use syslogs to assist with their day-to-day jobs.

Gartner published an official Market Guide for Infrastructure and Operations leaders who are looking to upgrade their infrastructure tech stack.

Server monitoring is necessary for any IT department in companies of any size. Learn why server monitoring is crucial and how to improve your own server monitoring practices.

Several server monitoring tools are on the market for enterprise-level companies and early-stage startups. But which one is going to work best for your organization's infrastructure?

What is application performance management (APM) and how can it help your digital products?

Since disagreement exists on what the term network observability actually means.

Understanding a network’s performance across multiple devices can make or break an application’s performance—which in turn affects the application experience.

Meeting internal SLAs and managing vendor SLAs are critical IT mandates.

Network traffic analysis is a process utilized to monitor incoming network traffic for overall performance, security and assorted maintenance issues. Learn more about the ins and outs of network traffic analysis (NTA), the benefits and more.

What is J-Flow, NetFlow, sFlow and the other protocols? This question, along with learning what sets each of these network protocols apart, will be answered.