Network Operations Posts

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NDR

How Network Anomaly Detection Works (And Why It Matters)

By Paul Piccard, CTO & SVP of Engineering at Plixer  Network anomaly detection identifies deviations from normal network behavior,

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Network Troubleshooting: How To Diagnose Network Outages Faster

By Paul Piccard, CTO & SVP of Engineering at Plixer  Most network outages are diagnosed after the damage is

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Network Operations

Why Most Performance Investigations Start in the Wrong Place

When users report that “the network is slow,” most investigations begin where frustration is loudest. That may be, for

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Network Operations

Five Questions to Ask Before Escalating a Network Issue

When performance drops or users report that “the network is slow,” escalation often feels like the safest move. But

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Network Operations

When One Packet Stream Needs to Feed Five Tools

In most environments today, one packet stream rarely serves a single purpose. Let’s say a SPAN or ERSPAN session

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Network Operations

Scaling Visibility Across Sites Without Deploying Probes Everywhere

As networks grow, visibility often scales the wrong way. New branch offices, cloud regions, and remote environments bring new

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Network Operations

Replacing Five Dashboards With One Path View

Most teams don’t set out to build a five-dashboard workflow. Maybe you start with a network view, but it

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Network Operations

From User Complaint to Root Cause: Tracing a Slow App Across WAN and Cloud

Let’s say a user reports that an application feels slow. It’s not completely down, but just sluggish enough to

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Network Operations

Why Root Cause Is Often Found Outside the Alert That Fired

Often, an alert feels definitive. A threshold was crossed; something measurable went wrong at a specific place and time.

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Network Operations

Understanding the Impact of Unmonitored Cloud Egress

While cloud environments make it easy to scale applications and distribute services, many teams end up losing visibility into

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