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NetCrunch is a next-gen, agentless infrastructure and traffic network monitoring system designed for hybrid, multi-site, and fast changing infrastructures. It combines real-time observability with alert automation and intelligent escalation to eliminate the overhead and limitations of legacy tools like PRTG or SolarWinds. NetCrunch supports agentless monitoring of thousands of nodes from a single server-covering physical devices, virtual machines, servers, traffic flows, cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP), SNMP, syslogs, Windows Events, IoT, telemetry, and more. Unlike sensor-based tools, NetCrunch uses node-based licensing and policy-driven configuration to streamline monitoring, reduce costs, and eliminate sensor micromanagement. 670+ built-in monitoring packs apply instantly based on device type, ensuring consistency across the network. NetCrunch delivers real-time, dynamic maps and dashboards that update without manual refreshes, giving users immediate visibility into issues and performance. Its smart alerting engine features root cause correlation, suppression, predictive triggers, and over 40 response actions including scripts, API calls, notifications, and integrations with Jira, Teams, Slack, Amazon SNS, MQTT, PagerDuty, and more. Its powerful REST API makes NetCrunch perfect for flow automation, including integration with asset management, production/IoT/operations monitoring and other IT systems with ease. Whether replacing an aging platform or modernizing enterprise observability, NetCrunch offers full-stack coverage with unmatched flexibility. Fast to deploy, simple to manage, and built to scale-NetCrunch is the smarter, faster, and future-ready monitoring system. Designed for on-prem (including air-gapped), cloud self-hosted or hybrid networks.

OpManager is the ideal end-to-end network monitoring tool for your organization's network. With OpManager, you can keep a close eye on health, performance, and availability levels of all network devices. This includes monitoring switches, routers, LANs, WLCs, IP addresses and firewalls. Insights into your hardware health and performance; monitor CPU, memory, temperature, disk usage, and more to improve efficiency. Seamlessly manage faults and alerts with instant notifications and detailed logs. Streamlined workflows facilitate easy set-up to execute quick diagnosis and corrective measures. The solution also comes with powerful visualization tools such as business views, 3d data center views, topology maps, heat maps, and customizable dashboards. Get proactive in capacity planning and decision-making with over 250 predefined reports covering all important metrics and areas in your network. Overall, OpManager's detailed management capabilities make it the ideal solution for IT administrators to achieve network resiliency and efficiency.

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FirstWave’s NMIS is a network management system that provides fault, performance, configuration management, performance graphs, and threshold alerts. Business rules allow for highly specific notification policies that can be used with multiple notification methods. FirstWave also enables partners, including some of the world’s largest telcos and managed service providers (MSPs), to protect their customers from cyber-attacks, while rapidly growing cybersecurity services revenues at scale. FirstWave provides a comprehensive end-to-end solution for network discovery, management, and cybersecurity for its partners globally.

Site24x7 provides unified cloud monitoring to support IT operations and DevOps within small and large organizations. The solution monitors real users' experiences on websites and apps from both desktop and mobile devices. DevOps teams can monitor and troubleshoot applications and servers, as well as network infrastructure, including private clouds and public clouds, with in-depth monitoring capabilities. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more 100 locations around the globe and via various wireless carriers.

Since 2004, NetBrain has transformed network operations with its no-code automation platform, helping teams systematically shift left by turning complex processes into streamlined workflows. By unifying AI and automation, NetBrain delivers actionable hybrid network-wide observability, automates troubleshooting, and enables safe change management to boost efficiency, reduce MTTR, and mitigate risk, enabling IT organizations to proactively drive innovation. Get network-wide and contextualized analysis across your multi-vendor, multi-cloud network Visualize and document the entire hybrid network using dynamic network maps and end-to-end paths Automate network discovery and ensure data accuracy for a single source of truth Auto-discover and decode your network's golden configurations, discover day 1 issues, and automate configuration drift prevention Automate pre- and post-validations for network changes with application performance context understanding Automate collaborative troubleshooting from human to machine

Auvik Network Management is a network management and monitoring software designed to empower IT professionals with deep visibility, automation, and control over their network infrastructure. This innovative platform is trusted by businesses of all sizes to streamline network operations, enhance security, and optimize performance. One of Auvik's standout features is its real-time network mapping and discovery capabilities. It automatically generates interactive, visual maps of your network topology, allowing you to easily identify devices, connections, and potential bottlenecks. This invaluable insight helps in planning and optimizing network architecture for maximum efficiency.

Splunk Enterprise delivers an end-to-end platform for security and observability, powered by real-time analytics and machine learning. By unifying data across on-premises systems, hybrid setups, and cloud environments, it eliminates silos and gives organizations full visibility. Teams can search and analyze any type of machine data, then visualize insights through customizable dashboards that make complex information clear and actionable. With Splunk AI and advanced anomaly detection, businesses can predict, prevent, and respond to risks faster than ever. The platform also includes powerful streaming capabilities, turning raw data into insights in milliseconds. Built-in scalability allows enterprises to ingest data from thousands of sources at terabyte scale, ensuring reliability at any growth stage. Customers worldwide use Splunk to reduce incident response time, cut operational costs, and drive better outcomes. From IT to security to business resilience, Splunk transforms data into a strategic advantage.

Statseeker is a powerful network performance monitor solution. It's fast, scalable, and cost-effective. Statseeker requires only one server or virtual machine to be up and running in minutes. It can also discover your entire network in under an hour without any significant impact on your bandwidth availability. It can monitor networks of all sizes, polling upto one million interfaces every sixty second, and collecting network data like SNMP, ping, NetFlow (sFlow, and J-Flow), sylog and trap messages, SDN configuration, and health metrics. Statseeker performance data are never averaged or rolled up. This eliminates the guesswork when it comes to identifying over- and underestimated infrastructure, root cause analysis, capacity planning, and other tasks. Statseeker's complete data retention means the in-built analytic engine can accurately detect anomalies in performance and forecast network behaviour months in advance. This allows network admins to plan and perform cost-effective, preventative maintenance, instead of fire-fighting problems as they occur. Statseeker's dashboards and out-of-the box reports allow you to troubleshoot and fix problems in your network before users are aware.

TotalView offers network monitoring as well as root-cause troubleshooting of problems in plain-English. The solution monitors every device as well as every interface on every device. In addition, TotalView goes deep, collecting 19 error counters, performance, configuration, and connectedness so nothing is outside of it’s view. A built-in heuristics engine analyzes this information to produce plain-English answers to problems. Complex problems can now be solved by junior level engineers leaving the senior level engineers to work on more strategic level projects. The core product includes everything needed to run a perfectly healthy network: Configuration management, server monitoring, cloud service monitoring, IPAM, NetFlow, path mapping, and diagramming. Get Total Network Visibility on your network and solve more problems faster.