Why use Site24x7 for bandwidth monitoring?
Site24x7 delivers complete visibility into your network by monitoring your source and destination devices, their interfaces, and the traffic flowing through them. It also provides stats on peak traffic, surges in traffic volumes, application and interface traffic, and bandwidth-hogging conversations. With interface-level details along with insights based on the IP address, application, and protocol, you can view your monitoring data from dashboards and consolidated reports. Also, this network traffic tool helps you analyze flows based on various technologies, like NetFlow, sFlow, and J-Flow.
Supported flow technologies to monitor network traffic
Site24x7 supports all leading flow technologies available in the market.
Overview of network bandwidth monitoring
How do you check bandwidth usage on your networks?
A bandwidth monitoring tool helps network administrators monitor bandwidth usage and analyze traffic. It also helps troubleshoot the origin of the issue, when and if there is one. To gain control of your network bandwidth, an ideal bandwidth monitoring tool must be able to show which IP, application, or port requires attention, so that the other users in the network have sufficient bandwidth.
Site24x7's bandwidth monitoring tool helps:
- Monitor various flows, like NetFlow, sFlow, J-Flow, and IPFIX, to manage bandwidth usage in real time.
- Gain comprehensive insights into the devices or interfaces that consume most bandwidth, the consumption stats, and the top-talkers in your network.
- Strategize your future bandwidth utilization needs based on your bandwidth usage trends.
- Generate curated granular reports, for faster network troubleshooting.
- Comprehend how bad the network issues are with threshold-based alerting in the channel of your choice.
Best practices to monitor network bandwidth
Here are a few tips to help you easily monitor bandwidth usage on your network and troubleshoot issues, if there are any.
- Monitor every device or interface: To receive a complete picture of what's happening in your network, you need to monitor each device that's present in your network.
- Plan your network bandwidth needs: By knowing when you might require more network bandwidth and when are the lean periods of usage, you can allocate bandwidth as required.
- Measure bandwidth to understand allocation: When you start measuring bandwidth usage, you will know which device or interface consumes more bandwidth than necessary and why. So, you can either allocate more bandwidth, or analyze the root cause if it's a false use of network bandwidth.
- Optimize your bandwidth with QoS: VOIP calls, emails, and applications require different amounts of bandwidth, and optimum levels must be allocated based on priority.
- Choosing the right tool: Keeping all the parameters in check in real time is an uphill task even in small networks. A good network monitoring tool, that includes a NetFlow Analyzer, helps admins monitor and manage their networks with ease. A device that can be customized according to your needs, and scales up or down as needed without any issues is required for today's networks, and Site24x7 fits the bill perfectly as it also provides a cost-effective solution.
How to control bandwidth usage?
When there are productivity issues, most organizations opt to increase the bandwidth that might not be used for the intended purpose. Conversely, when there is a large amount of network traffic, security risks increase. In both cases, controlling bandwidth can resolve performance issues, save on costs, and prevent security risks.
You can achieve bandwidth control through real-time monitoring and configuring QoS policies. Site24x7's NetFlow Analyzer helps you gain complete control of the bandwidth usage in your network so you can employ traffic-moderating strategies. These strategies help you to:
- Assure the quality of the network bandwidth.
- Allow only authentic traffic.
- Reduce bandwidth bottlenecks.
- Save on costs.
- Prevent security issues.
What is the difference between bandwidth and speed?
Bandwidth refers to how much data can be sent or received over the network. However, speed refers to how fast data can be transmitted or received at any moment. For example, while downloading a large file, you can view the download speed on your browser.
Why use Site24x7's NetFlow Analyzer to monitor bandwidth?
Hybrid workplaces, and global organizations bring new challenges for admins to monitor their network. With increasing attacks on organizational networks, it is important to use a secure tool that can:
- Help you analyze your network traffic speed and daily bandwidth usage better with easily customizable graphs and reports.
- Support flow technologies such as NetFlow, sFlow, and J-Flow.
- Save troubleshooting time with advanced forensic reports.
