Network performance monitoring
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Key use cases of our network performance monitoring tool
Network performance monitoring provides you with real-time visibility into your network’s behavior, allowing you to address issues proactively and make informed decisions about capacity and configuration. Here are key ways you can use Auvik’s tool to solve common challenges in your network environment.
Investigating network performance issues behind slowness or connectivity complaints
Pinpointing the cause of complaints about slow applications or unreliable connections can often feel like an overwhelming task, leading to hours of troubleshooting and frustrated users. Auvik’s network performance monitoring software helps streamline this process by providing real-time visibility into interface utilization and bandwidth consumption across your entire network.
As soon as Auvik is deployed, it begins tracking data from all network devices, identifying where congestion is occurring. By correlating utilization metrics with latency and packet loss measurements, you can quickly pinpoint the specific network segments causing issues. Auvik’s intuitive dashboard provides clear, color-coded status indicators for switches, routers, and connections. This enables you to drill down from high-level overviews to detailed interface statistics, ensuring you can isolate and address the root cause of performance problems swiftly and effectively, leading to improved network reliability and user satisfaction.
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Monitoring and maintaining VoIP call quality with network performance metrics
VoIP calls depend on consistent network performance, but troubleshooting call quality issues typically involves checking multiple metrics across different network segments — often after users have already experienced poor call quality. Auvik’s network performance monitoring simplifies this by continuously tracking key VoIP metrics such as latency, jitter, and packet loss across your entire network infrastructure.
With Auvik, you can set customized alerts for performance issues specifically impacting VoIP, such as when latency or jitter exceeds predefined thresholds. Our software automatically collects and displays these critical metrics in real-time on a unified dashboard, helping you quickly spot issues. Auvik also records historical data, enabling you to pinpoint exactly when performance degraded and which network components were involved. By correlating these VoIP metrics with other network events, you can identify how changes in traffic patterns or device performance are impacting call quality, allowing you to address problems before they affect users. This proactive monitoring helps maintain high-quality VoIP calls and improves overall user satisfaction.
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Managing network performance across remote sites or branch offices
Maintaining consistent network performance across geographically dispersed locations presents unique challenges, as remote offices often have limited on-site IT support and less visibility than headquarters. Auvik provides centralized visibility into all of your remote sites from a single dashboard, eliminating the need for separate monitoring tools at each location.
Our platform creates a unified view of all sites, allowing you to track bandwidth utilization, latency, packet loss, and other critical metrics across every remote office. It allows you to compare performance across different locations, helping you identify sites experiencing issues or requiring additional capacity.
Auvik’s threshold-based alerting system also notifies you of performance degradation at any remote site, allowing you to proactively address issues before users report them. Our solution’s historical performance data lets you analyze trends specific to each location as well, supporting targeted infrastructure investments based on the unique needs and growth patterns of individual offices.
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Identifying bandwidth hogs and performance degradation with flow data
Network slowdowns are often caused by unexpected traffic spikes, but without proper visibility, these issues can go unnoticed, leading to wasted time investigating the wrong applications or devices. Auvik’s network performance monitoring solves this by capturing detailed flow data from your network devices, giving you full visibility into traffic patterns across your infrastructure.
Once you enable flow monitoring in Auvik, the software automatically collects NetFlow, sFlow, and IPFIX data from compatible devices, presenting this information in easy-to-understand visual charts. Auvik then processes this flow data to identify high-bandwidth consumers, top talkers, and traffic patterns that may be causing performance issues.
You can set customized alerts for when bandwidth usage exceeds predefined thresholds, allowing you to take action before performance is affected. Auvik also enables you to filter and drill down into specific time periods, IP addresses, or applications to isolate unusual traffic spikes. With a historical record of this data, you can compare it against baseline performance to pinpoint exactly when and where excessive bandwidth consumption began. Our proactive monitoring and alerting system ensures you can address bandwidth hogs before they degrade network performance, helping to maintain a stable and efficient network.
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Troubleshooting intermittent network outages or performance degradation
Intermittent network slowdowns and brief outages can be incredibly frustrating to troubleshoot. By the time you investigate, the issue has often vanished. However, Auvik’s network performance monitoring software catches these transient problems as they emerge.
Our solution actively tracks granular performance metrics across your infrastructure, alerting you to abnormal events such as latency spikes, utilization surges, and packet loss. In addition, intuitive dashboards spotlight problem interfaces turning red to signal developing issues. By correlating active alerts with real-time traffic analysis, you can rapidly pinpoint whether congestion, hardware failures, or misconfigurations are the culprit, even for problems that are intermittent or short-lived.
With Auvik, sporadic slowdowns and micro-outages no longer remain mysteries after the fact. Instead, our platform arms you with immediate visibility and actionable insights to identify root causes on the spot. That’s why IT teams can address potential problems, including configuration limitations, capacity bottlenecks, and faulty components, before intermittent issues ever impact users, while maintaining optimal network performance for everyone.
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Supporting network capacity planning and upgrades with performance trends
Planning for network upgrades without reliable long-term data often leads to guesswork or overprovisioning. But gathering that data manually from dozens to hundreds of devices is time-consuming and prone to gaps. Auvik automatically collects and stores performance metrics across your entire infrastructure, giving you continuous visibility into how network usage evolves over time.
When it’s time to assess capacity needs, Auvik generates customizable reports that show bandwidth consumption trends over days, weeks, months, or even years. You can view peak, average, and 95th percentile utilization on each link to understand true demand and spot which segments are nearing capacity. With this insight, you can plan upgrades based on real usage patterns — avoiding bottlenecks before they happen and investing only where it’s necessary.
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Learn more about network performance monitoring at Auvik
What is network performance monitoring?
Network performance monitoring is the continuous measurement and analysis of network hardware, traffic, and connectivity to ensure optimal functioning of your digital infrastructure. It provides real-time visibility into metrics like bandwidth utilization, latency, packet loss, and jitter so you can detect and resolve issues before they impact users.
How do you assess network performance?
You assess network performance by collecting and analyzing key metrics such as bandwidth utilization, latency, packet loss, and interface errors across all network devices and connections. Auvik automates this process by continuously polling your network devices, collecting flow data, and presenting actionable metrics through real-time dashboards and historical trend analysis.
What are the benefits of using a network performance monitoring tool?
Network performance monitoring tools provide immediate visibility into issues affecting user experience, allowing you to resolve problems faster and minimize downtime. They also deliver historical data for capacity planning, help you identify bandwidth hogs and security anomalies, and establish performance baselines that make it easier to spot deviations from normal network behavior.
What performance metrics does Auvik monitor?
Auvik monitors essential network metrics, including bandwidth utilization, latency, packet loss, jitter, CPU usage, memory consumption, and interface errors across your entire infrastructure. The monitoring platform also collects detailed flow data to identify which applications, users, and conversations are consuming network resources.
Can Auvik alert me to network performance issues?
Auvik provides over 50 pre-configured alerts that notify you when performance metrics exceed thresholds that could affect network operations or user experience. You can customize these alert thresholds based on your specific requirements and integrate them with other IT service management tools to streamline your incident response workflow.
How does Auvik identify the root cause of performance issues?
Auvik’s network performance monitor brings together performance data from device metrics, interface statistics, syslog messages, and flow data, providing the context and visualization tools you need to pinpoint the root cause of network problems. The platform’s interactive network map and path visualization features help you trace connectivity issues and identify which devices or connections are causing performance degradation.
Does Auvik store historical performance data? For how long?
Auvik stores detailed historical performance data for all monitored metrics, allowing you to analyze trends and investigate past issues. The platform retains high-resolution data for recent periods (typically 30 days) and automatically aggregates older data for long-term trend analysis, with retention periods that can extend to a year or more depending on your subscription level.