Long-Term Packet Capture and Analysis with NetQoS Observer Expert and NetQoS GigaStor

Network engineers are increasingly held accountable for application performance across their networks.  Yet the combination of disjointed monitoring tools and after-the-fact troubleshooting techniques used in many organizations can fail to safeguard the performance of today's complex networks. Time lost while attempting to find relevant data among disparate utilities quickly adds up to longer mean time to repair (MTTR) and lower IT service levels.

A Performance-First approach to troubleshooting application delivery issues calls for a single solution that quickly pinpoints performance issues and presents all diagnostic information through an efficient, repeatable workflow.  NetQoS Observer Expert with NetQoS GigaStor, the long-term packet capture and analysis module of the NetQoS Performance Center, combines global, application response time monitoring with drill-down into packet-level root cause analysis.

The ability to quickly identify IT resources contributing to excessive service delay with immediate drill-down to root cause analysis enables a strategy for solving problems faster and reducing mean-time-to-repair.   The workflows into Observer Expert and GigaStor packet level detail allow IT staff to immediately pinpoint the cause of application-based performance issues.


Improve Staff Efficiency

• Display packet-level detail for issues detected by intelligent, application response time baselines
• Filter on-the-fly with the appropriate packet level decodes
• Avoid reactive and on-demand packet capture with over 250 TB of local packet storage

Reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)

• Visualize a comprehensive selection of packet-level analytics needed to diagnose even the most complex performance issues
• Diagnose issues with multi-hop analysis at nanosecond resolution, connection maps, stream reconstruction and playback, and expert application analytics

Lower IT Costs

• Captures traffic from saturated gigabit and 10 GbE links while supporting up to eight monitored ports
• Store options over 250 TB locally or offload via built-in storage area network (SAN) integration

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