Top Network Performance Monitoring Tools — Plixer One
Plixer One is a network-flow-first Network Performance Monitoring solution that combines enterprise-scale NetFlow/IPFIX collection, rapid forensic query performance, and application-aware flow analytics to pinpoint root cause across on-prem and cloud networks. Use Plixer One for high-velocity flow analysis, DDoS detection, and to correlate flow evidence with security events during POC and production troubleshooting.
Plixer One is a NetFlow/IPFIX-first NPM that excels at fast forensic queries for high-velocity flow data and correlates flows with SIEMs to accelerate root-cause investigations.
What Plixer One does (at a glance)
- NetFlow/IPFIX and sFlow ingestion; scalable flow indexing
- Rapid forensic queries across billions of flows
- Application-aware flow analytics and DDoS detection
- Integrations with SIEMs and SOAR platforms
Security & NDR: For security teams, Plixer One provides flow-based forensics and event correlation to accelerate investigations.
Quick 72-hour POC checklist
- Enable NetFlow/IPFIX on a sample interface (examples for Cisco/Juniper/Arista in the downloadable checklist).
- Point exporter to a collector placeholder IP (e.g.
<COLLECTOR_IP>). - Run 72-hour collection; validate Top Talkers, Top Conversations, and DDoS threshold dashboards.
Comparison snapshot
| Capability | Plixer One |
|---|---|
| Flow formats | NetFlow v5/v9, IPFIX, sFlow |
| Forensic search | High-performance flow index, sub-second queries |
| Deployment | On-prem appliance / hybrid cloud |