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Network Monitoring Best Practices in 2022 

  

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Table of Content  

  

  • Introduction   

  • What is Network Monitoring?  

  • 5 Best Network Monitoring Practices You Should Know About   

  • Conclusion   

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 Introduction 

 Network Monitoring plays a critical role for any organization. To ensure that your organization network is working proficiently, you need powerful visibility of your overall business network. To overcome these challenges, the organization needs a robust network monitoring system that provides 24x7 network monitoring solutions for all the devices such as routers, switches, servers, wireless devices, applications, and the list goes on.  

Network Monitoring and management are about monitoring the networks but also helps in detecting the issues before they arise and providing an effective solution for them. Therefore, let us first understand the definition of network monitoring in detail.  

 

Definition - Network Monitoring  

 Network Monitoring is a subtype of network management that helps analyze and monitor the organization's overall network to identify the problems before they arise. Whether outages or network failure, network monitoring plays a substantial role in alerting the network administrator about the issue.  

To help you clearly understand this here is one example of a Facebook Outage,  

 On October 4, 2021, Facebook was all services, including Instagram, Facebook, and Oculus were down for almost 7 hours. According to Fortune and Snopes, This outage costs around $60 Million in revenue to Facebook. Facebook's share prices went down by 5% with the revenue loss.  

This is the impact and value of network monitoring systems. It shields your business from colossal revenue loss due to network outages by providing you with detailed insights and problems of the network in the organization.  

  

5 Best Practices for Network Monitoring You Should Know About in 2022 

An effective network monitoring system provides exceptional insights and supports optimizing the network by reducing manual intervention and overall labor costs. First, you need to define a list of components to configure or integrate a robust network monitoring system for your organization. Then, all the network components are defined, and all your needs are identified.  

 

  1. End-to-End Visibility of The Network  

To manage the entire network of the IT organization proficiently, one needs clear visibility of the network. Whether it be quickly identifying the problems in the network or observing the flow of data, end-to-end and precise visibility helps the organization enhance network performance and reduce network outages. It offers you a good system overview and excellent insights into your network and devices.  

  

   2. Consolidated System View  

An organization contains different interfaces, applications, devices, and networks. There is a list of organizations that contain more than one network setup. Ensure that your chosen network monitoring system monitors all these devices and networks and provides you with an integrated system view in one unified interface for your organization.  

  

  1. Instant Alerts and Notification  

Alerts and notifications are exceptional and powerful features of network monitoring. With the help of proper alerts and notifications, the organization can identify the problem and work on resolving the issue. When any disruption or irregularities are found in the network, it is crucial to get notified as soon as possible. Detecting the problem immediately will help in solving it earlier.  

  

  1. Customized and Robust Dashboards  

 It is essential to have a dashboard that gives you complete visibility of the entire network to make things easy and get brief insights into the network. The process becomes easy and hassle-free for the admin to check any problem or abnormal network insights by directly accessing the dashboard.  

Some prominent and advanced network monitoring platforms provide you with an automated build dashboard. But having a customized dashboard gives you various customizable features to create the dashboard according to your needs.  

An ideal dashboard should be the one that gives you a clear insight into all the critical components of the network.  

 

  1. Reports For Better Monitoring  

To witness exceptional and better Monitoring of your network, you must generate daily, weekly, or monthly reports. Whether you need insights into network performance or the history of your network device, then reports will help you out.  

 Why are Reports Critical for Network monitoring? 

  • It provides you with detailed insight into the network, including performance, availability, and more.  

  • It offers you a range of metrics to overcome the problems and get a crystal-clear view of your entire network. 

  • It helps in scaling the business with powerful insights and metrics.  

  • It gives you a robust analysis of usage trends, network trends, and performance analysis to witness more efficient network monitoring outcomes.  

  

You will get complete coverage in all aspects of your network with reports.  

  

Conclusion 

An organization's scalability and productivity are dependent on the networks. And to overcome the network challenges, every organization must have a robust network monitoring platform to get stability, security, and faster problem-solving.  

A network outage can cost you a more significant loss, and integrating a network monitoring system will help you reduce network outages. We hope that the above-discussed best practices will help you achieve great results. Ensure that you follow all these practices to witness exceptional growth, faster decision-making, and a quick solution for your organization.  


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Raj Dodiya
Technical Content Writer cum Digital Marketer

My name is Raj Dodiya, and I am a content writer at Motadata, an IT Analytics Software Company. The latest technologies have always fascinated me, and therefore my interest in AI and ML was apparent. I keep on digging about the use cases and approaches AI and ML can help us, and as a result, I write blogs about the use of AI and ML in IT enterprises.

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