What is network monitoring?

Network monitoring provides the real-time information needed to determine the overall performance of a computer network. These solutions proactively detect and provide solutions for problems in a network by comparing live performance against an expected performance baseline.

How does network monitoring work?

Networks can be monitored by discovering devices within a network and correlating that information with the data those devices on the network are outputting.

Why is network monitoring important?

Monitoring your network is crucial for businesses to ensure uptime within your network, to troubleshoot issues, and to proactively plan for the future.

Which network monitoring tool is the best?

LogicMonitor's cloud-based observability platform is a leader for network monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and beyond.

Why Should you monitor your network?

Networks need to be monitored to maintain uptime. Monitoring specific devices within each network can show what resources are being allocated where, and what devices are using the most bandwidth.

Is LogicMonitor Network Monitoring Agent based or agentless?

LogicMonitor's network monitoring is agentless, so no physical devices need to be installed to start monitoring your entire network.

What is network performance monitoring?

Network performance monitoring measures the real-time health of your entire network of connected devices, to ensure reliability and uptime.

What is network topology mapping?

Network topology mapping is the process of graphing network-connected devices and the data collected within devices together to form a map of where network data streams through and how.

What’s the difference between network monitoring and network performance monitoring?

Network monitoring measures all of the devices within a network, while network performance monitoring measures the overall health of that network. The two terms are similar, and in most functional instances can be used interchangeably.

Network Monitoring

Monitor the health and performance of your entire network infrastructure alongside your entire stack with one unified platform. LM Envision helps you visualize your network to troubleshoot issues faster, with autodiscovery and advanced coverage for any network.

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What is Networking Monitoring with LM Envision?

Network monitoring provides the real-time information needed to determine the overall performance of a computer network. Network monitoring is the process of discovering, mapping, and measuring the data and performance within a computer network. LM Envision proactively detects and provides solutions for problems in a network by comparing live performance against an expected performance baseline.

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Comprehensive visibility into your entire network

Auto-discover network devices

2500+ out-of-the box integrations for top brands like Cisco, Juniper, Meraki and more allows for autodiscovery of any device on any network.

Visualize your network

Dynamic topology maps allow you to contextualize network traffic and alerts in real-time.

Troubleshoot network issues faster

End-to-end visibility into your network and intelligent alerting thresholds solve network issues at lightning speed. Learn more

Smarter coverage for every network:

Monitoring via SNMP, API, jFlow, NetFlow, sFlow, WMI, NBAR2, and/or IPFIX
Monitoring for firewalls, routers, switches, wireless devices, load balancers, and more
Support for SD-WAN and cloud-based networks
Network topology mapping, root cause analysis, and intelligent alerting
Automated setup and configuration with dynamic discovery of new network devices

Network monitoring that deploys in minutes, not weeks

LogicMonitor utilizes a lightweight, agentless collector that automatically discovers everything you need to know about your network.

Set up monitoring within minutes by entering a hostname or an IP address to access monitoring, alerting, and graphing you need to maintain and optimize network infrastructure. Get the coverage you need for the most complex networks – whether resources are on-premises, spread across multiple data centers, or in the cloud.

Improve network health and optimize performance

LM Envision’s dashboards, topology mapping, forecasting, and detailed reporting elevate visibility into network performance and help identify bandwidth issues and performance bottlenecks.

With auto-generated topology mapping, LogicMonitor allows you to discover and map relationships between critical infrastructure resources. Drill down further and generate a topology map based on an alerts to streamline your troubleshooting workflow and quickly discover the root cause of performance impacting issues.

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Get the metrics that matter

Quickly drill down into network devices, interfaces, firewalls, routers and switches. Monitor CPU, memory, temperature, fan and other hardware components. Understand Drill down into throughput, packet and error rates, utilization, and wireless access-points. Track BGP sessions and OSPF adjacencies. If it puts out data, we can monitor it.

This dashboard provides an a listing of various metrics that are monitored for Local Network Latency. The metrics displayed are real-time ping latency, real-time port latency, Ping latency over time, port latency over time, HTTP latency over time, real-time HTTP Latency, real-time HTTPS latency

Network topology dashboard that shows metrics and mapping together

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Simple Effective Event Log and Resource Monitoring/Alerting tool

LogicMonitor is used by our organization to actively monitor servers and cloud infrastructure for both events and resource utilization. Our main objective is to use the tool to detect and alert IT staff of anomalies or other potential downtime that could impact our customers and employees. LogicMonitor is currently deployed to key infrastructures such as VM hosts, domain controllers, critical servers, and Azure resources such as VMs, Frontdoor, Kubernetes, etc.

Nov 21, 2022

Aaron Nielson

Security Systems Architect

NSP

Health, Wellness and Fitness | 501-1000 employees

LogicMonitor has been a homerun!

LogicMonitor is great for organizations needing to get better visibility into their IT Operations and those needing to reduce workloads so that their IT teams can focus on more strategic projects.

Jul 01, 2022

Zachary Brand

Senior Director of Connected Solutions Delivery

Virteva

Information Technology & Services | 501-1000 employees

LogicMonitor: Highly Recommended

LogicMonitor replaced the others because it provides better value for us: it is more effective, reliable and efficient at delivering functionality.

Jun 28, 2022

Michael Dieter

Senior Systems Engineer

Loyola University Maryland

Higher Education | 501-1000 employees

Using LogicMonitor as a Non-MSP

LogicMonitor’s licensing is per device instead of SolarWinds per interface. This means a switch only needs one license compared to SolarWinds licensing per port on the switch. SolarWind’s GUI is old and not very intuitive to new users. Setting up users in LogicMonitor is super easy and the use of roles makes managing permissions simple.

May 17, 2021

Martin Sims

Infrastructure Engineer

McWane, Inc.

Building Materials | 5001-10,000 employees

LogicMonitor is one of the best monitoring tool I have ever deployed.

LogicMonitor support is very good. Their response time is fast and we didn’t have any issues.

Sep 10, 2020

Idan Lerer

Senior Director, US Operations

OptimalPlus

Semiconductors | 201-500 employees

The Lowdown on LM

[LogicMonitor is] great for keeping an eye on infrastructure at a small scale (office-wide) or large scale (planet-wide).

Dec 18, 2020

Joe Carey

Support Engineer I

Synoptek

Information Technology & Services | 201-500 employees

LogicMonitor will become your Ops Team process improvement tool

We are a managed services IT staff and use LogicMonitor to support our clients and our own infrastructure. We sell monitoring as a service and Logic Monitor serves a critical role in that service.

Dec 14, 2020

Joe Jacir

System Engineer

Kovarus

Information Technology & Services | 51-200 employees

LogicMonitor is Time Saving Magic!

Hands down the best support we have received from any vendor. Same top tier experience at any time of the day whether it is a simple question or a complex issue. They listen to feedback and do their best to implement feedback on problems that are discovered. Support is always providing references and material to learn more about what you are asking in a non-condescending manner which is appreciative.

Dec 13, 2020

Collin Thoman

Systems Administrator

Seed IP Law Group, LLP

Legal Services | 51-200 employees

Second time LogicMonitor customer

LogicMonitor’s onboarding process is smooth. Typically you would have an engagement with professional services to walk through the tool and have assistance onboarding select devices. The support portal has excellent documentation on adding third party environments like AWS and Azure into the platform. Additionally, the ability to setup NetScans to automatically enroll devices is welcome.

Dec 11, 2020

Zack Dietz

Infrastructure Engineering Manager

Rehrig Pacific Company

Plastics | 1001-5000 employees

LogicMonitor is how monitoring should be.

There are few scenarios where LogicMonitor is not the right choice as a monitoring platform; in fact I cannot think of any where LogicMonitor was the issue.

Dec 10, 2020

Alex Boyle

Enterprise Operation Center Engineer Level II

Synoptek

Information Technology & Services | 1001-5000 employees

Benefits of LM Envision’s network monitoring tool

LogicMonitor LM Exchange Cloud Integrations

Keep your Ops team informed

Keep your teams connected and streamline workflows with built-in integrations for service management tools like ServiceNow, Autotask and Connectwise, communication tools like Slack and HipChat, or incident notification tools like PagerDuty.

Turn data into insight

Performance and status dashboards are created automatically for every service, based on industry best practices. Sort through data quickly to take immediate action. Correlate data across your infrastructure stack to create any application- or service-specific view you need.

Additional data is assigned to alerts that undergo root cause analysis

Detect anomalies and reduce alert noise

Pinpoint the root cause of potentially malicious traffic to take control of your network, follow log-based network log anomalies to reduce MTTR, and follow contextual analysis to monitored IT devices.

Reduce MTTR

Identify performance trends

Pre-configured alert thresholds ensure that you receive meaningful alerts right from the start, and help you to prevent downtime. Easily tune thresholds on a global, group, or object level.

Be more insightful

Use Network Traffic Flow to get full visibility into what’s going through your network from ingress to egress. Proactively identify bandwidth issues, performance bottlenecks, and DDoS attacks by tracking flow data via NetFlow, Jflow, and sFlow.

Get full stack visibility

LM Envision goes beyond monitoring your network, to monitoring your entire tech stack. From cloud, to on-prem, to hybrid environments, your entire infrastructure is available at your fingertips. Get the unified view you need to reduce mean time to resolution and correlate network performance with other key infrastructure components.

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Understand how your network is affecting service delivery

With over 2500 integrations, LM Envision has your cloud, on-premises, and hybrid IT environments covered with the power to drill into your applications, servers, storage arrays and more. Out-of-the-box integrations with Netflow, sFlow, jFlow, WMI, Cisco, firewalls, routers, switches and thousands more make up a truly comprehensive solution. See more, faster.

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Reduce alert noise with advanced intelligence

Proactively manage challenging network conditions like congestion and over-consumption of network resources with deep analysis of top flows, ports, and QoS tables. Cut through the noise and streamline workflows with advanced AIOps capabilties including anomaly detection, root cause analysis and dynamic thresholds.

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Support software-defined networks

LM Envision works with Cisco SD-WAN product teams to develop best-in-class monitoring coverage for Viptela and Meraki. With extensive visibility for SD-WAN alongside traditional datacenter and hybrid cloud environments with built-in topology mapping to show the relationships within your infrastructure.

Explore SD-WAN

Expand network visibility with log data

Ingest log data from network devices (routers, switches, firewalls) to analyze alongside other devices in a single platform for a unified view of the IT environment. Log-based anomaly detection looks through noisy logs to push relevant insights that could minimize performance issues. Scale log ingestion with business needs and reduce MTTR by correlating network performance with other critical infrastructure components.

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Network monitoring FAQs

What is network monitoring?: Network monitoring provides the real-time information needed to determine the overall performance of a computer network. These solutions proactively detect and provide solutions for problems in a network by comparing live performance against an expected performance baseline.
How does network monitoring work?: Networks can be monitored by discovering devices within a network and correlating that information with the data those devices on the network are outputting.
Why is network monitoring important?: Monitoring your network is crucial for businesses to ensure uptime within your network, to troubleshoot issues, and to proactively plan for the future.
Which network monitoring tool is the best?: LogicMonitor’s cloud-based observability platform is a leader for network monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and beyond.
Why Should you monitor your network?: Networks need to be monitored to maintain uptime. Monitoring specific devices within each network can show what resources are being allocated where, and what devices are using the most bandwidth.
Is LogicMonitor Network Monitoring Agent based or agentless?: LogicMonitor’s network monitoring is agentless, so no physical devices need to be installed to start monitoring your entire network.
What is network performance monitoring?: Network performance monitoring measures the real-time health of your entire network of connected devices, to ensure reliability and uptime.
What is network topology mapping?: Network topology mapping is the process of graphing network-connected devices and the data collected within devices together to form a map of where network data streams through and how.
What’s the difference between network monitoring and network performance monitoring?: Network monitoring measures all of the devices within a network, while network performance monitoring measures the overall health of that network. The two terms are similar, and in most functional instances can be used interchangeably.

2023 G2 Network Monitoring Grid Report

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Network monitoring and troubleshooting solution brief

Scale the impact of your network with comprehensive hybrid and multi-cloud monitoring in a single platform. Alleviate networking points of friction with increased visibility, and leverage unified network logs and metrics to speed up troubleshooting across all network and IT devices.

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Features include:

AIOps early warning system
Automated device discovery
Alerting and escalation chains
2000+ monitoring integrations
100+ pre-built dashboards
Comprehensive training modules
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