Monitoring

Everyone is working from home... and they're all using the VPN. Here are three ways you can help reduce the load on your VPN and ensure uptime.

In this article, I’ll give you a general overview of AWS CloudWatch, show you how to build an informational dashboard, and then show you how to set up AWS CloudWatch performance monitors in WhatsUp Gold.

In this post, we’ll discuss how WhatsUp Gold (WUG) can help you monitor VoIP performance, and demonstrate how to set up performance monitoring for VoIP devices.

To understand the differences between active and passive, and which one is best for you, this article provides a quick rundown of both methodologies.

If customers complain your web applications are slow, or if internal end-users keep calling the help desk because it takes too long to retrieve database files, you just might have a problem with your load balancers.

In this article, you’ll learn what packet sniffing is as well as practical use cases you, as a network admin, can expect to run into.

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) sure does pack a punch for something with “Simple” in its name.

Two key tools that network admins use for monitoring are NetFlow and sFlow. In this article, we'll compare both, and see if they can work together.

It’s been predicted for years that most computers will run in the cloud and your screen will be the only connection between you and the cloud. Does that mean the business infrastructures will matter anymore, and what does that mean for the future of network monitoring?

Everyone and everything in our modern connected world uses bandwidth. The pipes are now far bigger than the old 56kbps dial-up speeds most of the world endured once upon a time, so bandwidth is usually not seen as an issue by the vast majority of network users. Well, not until there’s a problem, that is.

Company bandwidth usage has, for reasons other than expected growth, increased dramatically and continues to do so every year. Over time this usage is going to increase beyond your workforce's limitations, which poses an important challenge for IT teams.

Monitoring bandwidth usage is a vital aspect of any network management strategy. Bandwidth monitors collect, monitor and analyze network traffic volume by end-point (user), port, interface and protocol (application). This information enables IT Admins to:

There are so many types of log data to monitor and manage, but what are the most important logs to track? These are the top four types of log data that every IT team should be holding on to just in case.

As a former cubicle-based drone, I can readily identify with the bandwidth problems faced by users, with slowdowns and interruptions suffered for a variety of reasons, whether it is essential backups best run after-hours, problems with new security patches or updates, failing hardware or streaming video addicts.

A new feature in Ipswitch's WhatsUp Gold network monitoring product is the ability to monitor Azure Virtual Machines. In this video from Ipswitch contributor Adam Betram, we'll cover how to add an Azure credential to WhatsUp Gold and how to set up an initial discovery to discover all Azure Virtual Machines in a subscription.

A lot can change in a decade. In so many ways, we’re living in a completely different landscape than we were just ten years ago, and workplace technology is no exception. We’ve moved workloads to the cloud, introduced BYOD policies, and now rely on workplace wi-fi way for all corporate provisioned devices. All of this network activity puts enormous stress on enterprise networks, and IT teams need to be able to keep track of it to keep things humming. That’s where enterprise network bandwidth monitoring tools come into play.

In a complex network environment, traditional methods for application monitoring can be cumbersome, complicated, or even inefficient.

Just what is network flow monitoring? To put it simply, network flow monitoring is a way of looking into the actual traffic flowing across a network.

Monitoring traffic and bandwidth usage across LAN links is an essential part of ensuring optimal network performance.

It doesn’t take a ninja to know that Simple Network Management Protocol allows administrators to monitor network-attached devices. That said, you might actually need to be a ninja to enable and configure SNMP on Windows, Linux/Unix, Cisco, and ESXi.