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Overview

A major use-case of AIOps is network observability, which involves analyzing the metrics related to a network to understand what is happening inside it, and how the internal state of the network impacts business objectives and the user experience.

One effective way to achieve network observability is by analyzing the flow of your network. This includes monitoring overall network bandwidth usage, identifying users, applications, protocols, and IP address groups that consume the most bandwidth, and analyzing their traffic patterns.

This enhanced visibility into your network's applications, hosts, and conversations enables you to proactively manage your network to reduce outages, solve problems faster, and ensure efficient and cost-effective operations.

Network observability through Flow analysis

Understanding the internal state of networks is an essential component of managing overall performance and reliability of your infrastructure.

As a network administrator, monitoring network traffic is the most efficient way to understand any underlying issues in a network. Motadata AIOps offers a Flow explorer that allows network admins to gain visibility into which server, application, or user is using what amount of bandwidth, and where that bandwidth is being used.

Flow analysis helps align resources to support business results and gain credibility by making data-driven decisions. By studying the flow data of your network, you can:

  • Monitor network bandwidth usage at a granular level and identify users with maximum bandwidth usage.
  • Trace the conversations between internal and external endpoints.
  • Analyze traffic patterns over months, days or minutes by filtering out data for any network element.
  • Enhance bandwidth capacity before outages occur.

Network observability has assumed even more importance in recent years due to the increase in the complexity of networking architectures. Modern networks often span multiple data centers and/or clouds, making it challenging to monitor and manage the network effectively.

By providing continuous visibility into networks, and helping teams to map the network state to the organizational business contexts, such as availability and performance guarantees, network observability allows an organization to handle the complexity of modern networks and ensure that their network supports their business expectations.