Real-time network monitoring with Auvik
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How you can use Auvik’s real-time network monitoring tool
Auvik’s real-time network monitoring helps you stay ahead of issues and keep networks running smoothly. Here are a few ways you can use it to troubleshoot problems faster, reduce downtime, and improve visibility across client or internal environments.
Immediate detection of device or service failures
Network device failures create immediate business disruptions that demand swift attention. Auvik’s real-time network monitoring tool continuously polls your network devices, providing instant notification when something goes offline or a service becomes unavailable.
Auvik’s live network monitoring system displays alerts directly on your interactive network map with affected devices clearly highlighted for immediate attention. The Northstar path visualization feature lets you trace connectivity between any device and the internet, revealing each hop along the path to precisely identify failure points. All syslog data from your network devices is centralized in one searchable interface, providing essential context for efficient troubleshooting. The real-time monitoring interface automatically refreshes device statuses to show service recovery or emerging issues without requiring manual device checks, significantly reducing your mean time to resolution.
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Live traffic and bandwidth monitoring
Network slowdowns are often the result of unexpected bandwidth consumption that requires immediate identification. Auvik’s real-time network performance monitoring tool collects flow data directly from your devices to deliver complete visibility into traffic patterns across your entire infrastructure.
Our tool ingests NetFlow, J-Flow, IPFIX, or sFlow data from compatible devices and transforms it into actionable insights through TrafficInsights. Interactive charts immediately reveal bandwidth consumers by displaying top source addresses, destination addresses, conversations, and ports. Traffic appears geographically on an intuitive world map, showing precise data flow destinations beyond your network perimeter. For deeper investigations, you can examine specific flow records from a single interface that updates continuously as traffic patterns evolve, enabling swift resolution of bandwidth issues before critical services experience disruption.
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Real-time VPN tunnel and remote access monitoring
Remote workforce connectivity depends on a reliable VPN infrastructure, but these systems often fail quietly until users start experiencing issues. Auvik’s real-time network monitoring tool gives you continuous visibility into the health of your VPN tunnels and remote access systems by actively tracking their status.
It integrates with firewalls and VPN concentrators using vendor-specific protocols, enabling comprehensive monitoring of both site-to-site and remote access VPNs. SSL VPN monitoring displays current session counts alongside license limits directly in the firewall dashboard, making capacity planning easier. By polling your VPN infrastructure continuously, the system precisely detects tunnel disconnections and nearing capacity thresholds. With real-time VPN status alerts, your team can proactively address connectivity issues — often before users even notice a disruption or need to file a report.
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Immediate configuration change capture
Configuration changes can often cause unexpected outages or security vulnerabilities that are difficult to diagnose. Auvik scans your devices every 60 minutes to detect and document configuration modifications as they take place across your infrastructure.
When it detects changes, our system automatically archives the new configuration while preserving previous versions for comparison and compliance purposes. The intuitive configuration comparison interface uses color-coding to highlight additions, modifications, and deletions with exceptional clarity. Your team can review precisely what changed, when it changed, and correlate these modifications with any subsequent network issues. This comprehensive change tracking maintains a complete audit trail of all network modifications, allowing swift identification of unauthorized changes and efficient troubleshooting of configuration-related problems.
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Real-time detection of network anomalies
Network anomalies can be a sign of potential problems or security threats that remain invisible without continuous monitoring. With Auvik, you can constantly analyze traffic patterns and device metrics to identify unusual behavior that deviates from established operational baselines.
Our real-time network monitoring software collects performance data using multiple protocols optimized for each device type, constructing detailed profiles of normal network behavior over time. Advanced threshold-based analysis examines metrics, such as bandwidth utilization, error rates, and connection counts, generating alerts when variations exceed normal parameters, while TrafficInsights enables thorough investigation of anomalies through detailed examination of communication flows and unexpected external connections.
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What is real-time network monitoring?
Real-time network monitoring is the continuous observation of network infrastructure, traffic, and performance metrics as they occur rather than through periodic sampling. Auvik’s real-time monitoring provides immediate visibility into network status, allowing you to detect and address issues the moment they emerge rather than discovering problems after they’ve impacted users.
Why do I need a real-time monitoring system?
Real-time monitoring dramatically reduces mean time to detection and resolution by alerting you to issues as they happen rather than after periodic checks. This immediate awareness prevents minor issues from escalating into major outages, reduces downtime costs, and ensures critical business services remain available to users without interruption.
What are the best tools for real-time network monitoring?
The best tools for real-time network monitoring combine comprehensive visibility, intuitive interfaces, and proactive alerting, without requiring complex setup. Auvik is a leading option, offering automated device discovery, visual network mapping, bandwidth analysis, and configuration tracking in a single, easy-to-deploy platform that delivers immediate insight and control.
How quickly does Auvik detect issues in real time?
Auvik detects device availability issues within seconds by continuously polling devices as frequently as every 60 seconds. It scans for configuration changes every 60 minutes, while TrafficInsights delivers near-instant visibility into bandwidth usage and evolving traffic patterns in real time.
Will Auvik monitor my entire network in real time, including cloud infrastructure?
Auvik provides comprehensive real-time monitoring of on-premises network infrastructure including routers, switches, firewalls, and endpoints with detailed visibility into traffic flows. While Auvik focuses primarily on network infrastructure monitoring, it integrates with other tools in your technology stack to provide a complete view of your environment including connections to cloud services.
How does Auvik’s real-time monitoring compare to traditional monitoring tools?
Traditional monitoring tools often rely on scheduled polling that can miss brief outages and typically require extensive manual configuration and maintenance. Auvik automatically discovers and monitors your network in real time with minimal setup, provides visual network mapping, and delivers actionable alerts without the complexity associated with legacy monitoring platforms.
How does Auvik ensure that real-time monitoring won’t overwhelm my team with too many alerts?
Auvik comes with over 50 pre-configured alerts, but allows complete customization of alert thresholds, severity levels, and notification methods. Our system offers filtering capabilities to focus on business-critical issues and includes intelligent alert grouping to prevent alert storms during widespread outages, ensuring your team receives meaningful notifications without unnecessary noise.
What types of networks or devices can Auvik monitor in real time?
Auvik can monitor virtually any network device that supports standard protocols like SNMP, SSH, or API access, including routers, switches, firewalls, wireless controllers, and more from over 700 vendors. The platform is vendor-agnostic and supports heterogeneous environments, making it ideal for complex networks with diverse equipment regardless of manufacturer or age.