Network Monitoring Software
Infrastructure, Performance and Traffic Monitoring
Progress® WhatsUp® Gold network monitoring provides complete infrastructure monitoring, performance and root cause analysis to ensure maximum uptime, faster troubleshooting and optimized network performance.
Simplify Network Monitoring with Powerful, Customizable Tools
- A network management system that easily gives you visibility into network, device performance and network availability, driving operational efficiency and business continuity.
- Fully customizable dashboards provide actionable insights into all systems in your organization.
- An easy-to-use network monitoring tool that quickly resolves network and server issues, helping teams do more with fewer staff and limited security resources.
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Monitor and Optimize Network Servers, Applications and Devices in the Cloud or On-Premises
Use the WhatsUp Gold solution to monitor servers, devices and applications, network traffic and performance in the cloud or on-premises.
- Find and fix network problems before end users are impacted
- Maintain, audit and restore device configurations to greatly reduce downtime
- Get complete visibility and quickly find root cause of network issues
- Analyze historical trends and plan for future capacity utilisation
Actionable Insights at a Glance
Improve network performance and uptime with a single, intuitive dashboard that puts everything you need in one place. The WhatsUp Gold solution makes monitoring simple and proactive.
Key Highlights:
- Preconfigured and Custom Dashboards: Discover and map your entire infrastructure, then tailor views to your SLAs.
- Real-Time Visibility: See, predict and detect network issues before they impact users.
- Dynamic Network Mapping: Understand interconnections and dependencies for faster troubleshooting.
- Configurable NOC Viewer: Cycle through multiple data screens for end-to-end visibility.
- Accelerated Root Cause Analysis: Use automated detection, predictive analytics and actionable recommendations to resolve issues quickly.
Complete Visibility From Day One
WhatsUp Gold monitoring automatically discovers all systems on your network and maps how they connect, giving you instant clarity and control.
Key Highlights:
- Powerful Layer 2/3 Discovery: Scan your network to identify every device and its relationships.
- Comprehensive Inventory Data: Collect details like device type, vendor, serial number, firmware and installed modules.
- Hardware & Server Monitoring: Use SNMP and Redfish for full visibility, plus BMC support for iDRAC, iLO and more.
- Proactive Health Monitoring: Maintain server health and prevent outages with continuous checks.
- Dynamic Topology Maps: Automatically generate detailed maps for faster troubleshooting and planning.
Visualize Your Network Your Way
Turn messy wiring closets into clear, interactive maps that make network management simple and easy to interpret. The WhatsUp Gold solution gives you full control over how you view and manage your infrastructure.
Key Highlights:
- Interactive Network Maps: Visualize your network in real time with customizable layouts.
- Dependency Overlays: See system relationships, wireless, virtual and application infrastructure at a glance.
- Device Dependency Mapping: Quickly identify problem points and understand how issues can spread.
- Flexible Visualization: Organize and interpret your network the way you want for faster troubleshooting.
Stay Ahead of Issues with Instant Notifications
The WhatsUp Gold Alert Center consolidates all network and server performance alerts into one modern dashboard, helping teams respond faster and avoid missed issues.
Key Highlights:
- Centralized Alert Management: View all alerts in one place for complete visibility and faster action.
- Active and Performance Monitors: Instantly flag state changes and trigger alerts when thresholds are exceeded.
- Customizable Notifications: Configure alerts for anything that could impact performance or availability.
- Smart Prioritization: Send the right alerts to the right people automatically for quick resolution.
- Powerful Automations and Integrations: Fix problems faster with automated workflows and integrations.
Monitor Anything with an IP Address
Modern network monitoring goes beyond simple device checks, it delivers deep visibility and actionable insights across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments. The WhatsUp Gold solution enables you to monitor virtually any IP-based device using standard protocols such as Ping, SNMP, WMI for Windows and SSH for Unix/Linux. The WhatsUp Gold solution offers unmatched flexibility with built-in support for PowerShell and SQL queries, making it easy to customize and extend monitoring for unique environments.
- Active Monitors:Proactively poll devices to verify availability and status.
- Performance Monitors:Track real-time metrics like CPU load, memory utilization, bandwidth consumption and respond when thresholds are exceeded.
- Passive Monitors:Collect event-driven data such as SNMP traps, Syslog messages or Windows Events.
Wireless Networks
Gain clear visibility into wired and wireless dependencies with dynamic maps showing clients, access points, SSIDs and controllers. Historical reports on signal strength, hardware health and usage support capacity planning and auditing, while tracking client-to-access-point connections, maintain compliance and troubleshooting efficiency.
Hardware Health
Prevent costly failures by monitoring critical environmental and hardware conditions across your infrastructure. WhatsUp Gold tracks server room temperature, fan status, power supply health and battery capacity. With Redfish BMC support, it extends visibility to memory (RAM), storage disk health, CPU status and chassis status, helping teams detect issues early and avoid downtime.
Files and Folders
Monitor critical files and folders for changes in size or content to maintain compliance with regulations like SOX, PCI, GDPR, HIPAA, FISMA, ISO 27001 and SOC 2. Automated alerts and reports provide documented proof of compliance for audits.
Why WhatsUp Gold Network Monitoring?
The WhatsUp Gold solution complements these capabilities with flow-based monitoring (NetFlow/IPFIX) for unparalleled visibility into network traffic and application performance. It enables:
End-to-End Insight
Monitor bandwidth, latency and user experience across hybrid environments.
Proactive Troubleshooting
Identify root causes of performance degradation with drill-down analytics.
Capacity Planning
Use historical trends to forecast future needs.
Scalability & Flexibility
Deploy on physical, virtual or cloud infrastructure and scale easily with distributed deployments. WhatsUp Gold supports all major flow formats, including NetFlow, IPFIX, jflow, sFlow and more, so you can monitor complex, multi-site environments without limitations. With WhatsUp Gold software, you move from reactive monitoring to predictive operations — preventing downtime and delivering consistent service quality across your entire digital infrastructure.
With WhatsUp Gold software, you move from reactive monitoring to predictive operations — preventing downtime and delivering consistent service quality across your entire digital infrastructure.
Intelligent IT Infrastructure Monitoring
WhatsUp Gold network monitoring provides in-depth visibility into your IT environment from servers and applications to cloud resources and wireless networks. Monitor availability, performance and dependencies in real time with dynamic maps and customizable dashboards. Proactive alerts and automated workflows help you resolve issues before they impact users, maintaining smooth operations and maximum uptime.
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Proactive Network Performance Monitoring
The WhatsUp Gold solution delivers deep insight into network traffic and performance across hybrid environments. Analyze all network communications, track bandwidth usage and identify latency or congestion before they affect critical services. With advanced analytics and capacity planning tools, you can optimize resources, troubleshoot faster and maintain a resilient, high-performing network.
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Flexible licensing options to suit your organization's needs.
Delivers real-time visibility into device health, application performance, and traffic flows so IT teams can ensure uptime, optimize capacity and help prevent service disruptions. Helps reduce operational costs, accelerate troubleshooting and maintain a consistent user experience.
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Learn more about network monitoring.
What is network monitoring?
Network Monitoring is the process of discovering, mapping and monitoring a computer network to maintain availability and performance and alert network admins when a service is slow or failing. The only way to know if everything on your network is operating as it should be is to monitor it continuously.
Which tool is best for network monitoring?
Award-winning WhatsUp Gold is the go-to answer for thousands of top enterprises and SMBs. Through a powerful combination of out-of-the-box functionality, intuitive workflows and system integrations WhatsUp Gold lets you discover and then monitor more of your network and thus find and fix network infrastructure problems fast, whether on-premises, in the cloud or both. Easy customization is a primary focus for the product.
WhatsUp Gold can help you prove the value of IT and network operations through shareable and customizable drag and drop dashboards, scheduled reporting, historical trend analysis and asset inventories to assist with mandatory compliance audits.
Why monitor a network?
For something as mission-critical as your network, it’s important to have the right information at the right time. Of primary importance is to capture status information about current network devices (e.g., routers and switches) and critical network servers. A network administrator also needs to know that essential services (e.g., email, website, and file transfer services) are consistently available.
What is the goal of network monitoring
Track and boost performance of all aspects of the network and applications, effective troubleshooting, support strong SLAs and keep employees, customers and partners impressed with network performance.
What makes a good network monitoring tool?
Network monitoring solutions should have automated discovery, deep and easy configuration and extensibility, intuitive dashboards with customizable views, out-of-the box features to make the solution effective on day one and a track record of proven success.
Set policies for alerts and integrate with tools like service desks, Teams, and Slack to speed response and avoid missed issues.
Monitor the physical condition of network equipment using industry standards and protocols, triggering alerts when poor conditions threaten performance or uptime.
Ping is a basic network monitoring command that checks connectivity and response time, alerting teams when latency or packet loss signals potential issues.
Monitoring network devices is essential for maintaining availability, but when a device becomes unavailable, it can lead to service disruptions, security risks, and operational delays.
Comprehensive system reporting, including network and server insights, is an essential tool for administrators to maintain performance and reliability.