Auvik Blog

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How I Strategically Tune Auvik Alerts to Reduce Noise and Optimize Monitoring

Auvik is pre-configured to alert on a list of standard metrics at industry best-practice thresholds. If the thresholds are too low for your client sites, the…

Insider Risk: The Call is Coming from Inside the House

[BONUS POINTS IF YOU CAN NAME THE MOVIES THESE GIFS COME FROM IN THE COMMENTS] In IT, we tend to think of threats as external. Hackers, scammers, bots, and DDoS…

10 Best Network Monitoring Tools in 2024

There are plenty of options for network monitoring tools today, and that can make it hard to pick the right one for you. Here, we’ll help you sort through your…

3 Minor Network Alerts You Shouldn’t Ignore

It’s obvious you need to deal with emergency and critical network alerts. But what about simple warning alerts? Your first impulse may be to ignore them. But…

What is IT Service Management (ITSM)? Everything You Need to Know

At its core, ITSM aims to align IT services with business objectives and coordinate all the moving parts required to keep operations running smoothly. But as IT…

What is MTTR in Networking?

When a critical system goes down, every second counts. That’s why IT and network professionals need to get comfortable with tracking incident response metrics…

3 Switch Features You Should Never Change

In a handful of recent incidents, I helped clients troubleshoot network problems. The errors turned out to be switch features that were changed from their…

What is Network Security?

Network security is a variety of different resources, behaviors, software, hardware components, and policies. The priorities and elements of network security…

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