Application Performance Metrics: Best Practices and Insights
Application performance has a large impact on the efficiency and success of an organization. Users expect fast, seamless, and reliable experiences, and even a...
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Network Operations
Opportunity Cost and the Inflexible Network
At a former job of mine, there was a tool that most of the company used but nobody liked. It was a database, much...
Why We Hate Direct Exporter-Collector Configurations
Odds are you have a lot of devices on your network that export data somewhere—whether that’s to a traffic analyzer, security tool, some sort...
Understanding MTTR (Mean Time to Respond) and How to Reduce It
Because system downtime can have serious financial and operational consequences, NetOps teams often find it useful to track MTTR (Mean Time to Respond). Although...
Uncover Network Blind Spots with Plixer One
In Part 2, we examined how network blind spots arise in today’s increasingly complex IT environments. Now, in this final part, we’ll discuss how...
Uncovering Network Blind Spots: How to Achieve Total Network Visibility with Plixer
In today’s digital-first world, enterprise networks are more distributed and complex than ever. As companies rely increasingly on cloud-based services, remote work, and interconnected...
Adding Endpoint Analytics to Flow Data
When we think about the world of Network Flow data, we usually think within Layers 3, 4, and 5. Typically IP addresses are as...
The changing needs of network performance monitoring
Recently, I was asked by one of our long-time customers whether Plixer had abandoned its traditional Network Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics (NPMD) and Network...
Client and server reports in Plixer Scrutinizer
In our new release of Scrutinizer version 19.1.0, we have included a handful of new reports that help to provide more information on the...
Searching NetFlow for a private host behind a NAT router
Inbound traffic that is captured and exported as NetFlow by your NAT router only shows that the destination of the inbound internet traffic is...