See how AppNeta's approach is different
The Latest in Performance Monitoring and End-User Experience
Browsing posts tagged with: network performance monitoring
IN PRACTICE: Faster resolution for call center outages
August 27, 2018 by
Amy Potvin
Industry Insights, Performance Monitoring, Use Case
Introduction Transient issues can be a huge problem on large network infrastructures. Not only are they hard to catch, but it is even harder to isolate root cause. A large US telecommunications customer continuously monitors the VoIP performance of their 200+ call centers distributed around the US to look for these type of issues. When…Continue reading
IN PRACTICE: Pinpointing Cause of Point of Sale App Latency
July 11, 2018 by
Seth Differ
Industry Insights, Performance Monitoring, Use Case
What Problem Was the Customer Attempting to Solve? In retail, slow performance in Point of Sale (POS) applications has an immediate impact. When numerous complaints came in regarding overall performance slowdowns for a large national retailer the corporate networking team who oversees the store connections sprung into action. As the team began investigating and troubleshooting…Continue reading
IN PRACTICE: Identifying the cause of SD-WAN degradation
June 19, 2018 by
Amy Potvin
Industry Insights, Performance Monitoring, Use Case
Context A major US retail chain had been running the AppNeta Performance Manager for 10 months to monitor the retail store WAN services between their primary data center and stores in order to validate that their circuits are performing. Following a growing trend in enterprise networking, the Network team is migrating their stores from a…Continue reading
Home Healthcare Provider Brings Distributed Locations Into Focus With AppNeta
January 11, 2018 by
Christine Cignoli
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
IT ROLE: Network engineer for branch and wireless services NEEDS: Monitoring 500 remote locations with a small, centralized IT team RESULTS: Finding provider issues; creating network performance baselines We talked recently with a customer who runs AppNeta at a large and growing healthcare provider. This network engineer has just one other colleague helping to manage…Continue reading
Performance Monitoring That Works for Both IT Operations and Application Owners
December 14, 2017 by
Lea Rabinowitz
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights
From the earliest days of online-dating services, “love algorithms” searched almost exclusively on what clients deemed to be their ideal characteristics in a partner. Singles would check boxes on hair color, religion, location, and interests, and wait for the results. Undoubtedly, what came out didn’t really align with the kind of partner they were actually…Continue reading
Managing WAN vs. LAN to Make Your Business Feel Like One Company
November 10, 2017 by
Christine Cignoli
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
The internet and rise of mobility mean that business users and the information systems they rely on are rarely in the same place any more. Users depend on their own devices, virtualization means their desktop isn’t always on their desktop, applications run remotely and even simple telecom services are delivered via the internet. In addition,…Continue reading
New Features From AppNeta Bring More Detail, Better Integration
October 24, 2017 by
Sean Armstrong
Performance Monitoring, Product News
We’re excited to announce some new features in AppNeta Performance Manager for our customers. Our engineers are constantly incorporating improvements and feature requests so that our application and network monitoring product is easy to use and gives you tons of details to find and solve any performance problems. Deploying and Accessing AppNeta You’ll notice a…Continue reading
Put Metrics Into the User’s Context to Make Them Meaningful
September 19, 2017 by
Christine Cignoli
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
Metrics are meaningless. Well, that’s not quite true. Raw metrics, when it comes to IT monitoring, are just numbers that don’t tell you anything. A number may seem high, but not result in any problem visible to end users. Another number may seem low, but not be as low as SLAs require. The only way…Continue reading
Don’t Jump Off the SD-WAN Cliff Without a Parachute
August 29, 2017 by
Alec Pinkham
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
SD-WAN is gaining traction quickly with a lot of businesses. If SD-WAN technology is on your radar, you likely want to improve the performance of networks and applications at remote offices. You may have jumped off the SD-WAN adoption cliff already, or are at least researching and considering it. With SD-WAN’s popularity, it has gained a…Continue reading
Ten Questions to Ask After a Network Outage
June 22, 2017 by
Sharon Ward
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
A network outage can be disruptive and expensive, so you want to eliminate the causes. This checklist of the top 10 questions to ask after a network outage can help you identify the reasons for an outage and expose any gaps in your monitoring. Ideally, you’ll learn from an outage to prevent others in the…Continue reading