Top 10 Network Monitoring Tools & Software

hello and welcome to this week's top 10

where we're looking at the top 10

network monitoring tools and software

now that more and more companies are

reliant on digital tools to ensure

business productivity and efficiency no

one can afford to struggle with a

network problem the question is though

which network monitoring tool delivers

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trends tech and solutions so here they

are the top 10 options to help you make

your investment count starting us off at

number 10 then we've got spiceworks

spiceworks is free to use making

available to any company no matter the

size and it comes with a convenient

web-based gui for monitoring performance

the connectivity dashboard comes with

integrations available for other

essential spicebox tools to connect

multiple parts of say the cloud help

desk and inventory monitoring number

nine async an open source approach to

network monitoring i singer helps you to

track the performance of your cloud

services network and data center as an

entirely web-based software i singer can

be configured through your gui or using

domain specific language to track all

the metrics crucial to your performance

management strategies number eight

connect wise automate a solution suited

for the modern world of hybrid work

connect wise automate can be used

remotely and proactively to monitor all

kinds of endpoints networks and

computers the solution will

automatically discover all the devices

in your network to make them more

visible there's also a patch management

tool for protecting systems with central

patching number 7 zabbix xavix allows

you to instantly watch things like

packet loss rate network bandwidth usage

and device temperature issues in a

matter of seconds xavix has an active

community spread around the world and

gives users freedom to use the open

source solution without the risk of

vendor lock-in number six nagios nagios

can help you track the sources of

unknown issues in your environment with

nagios it's easy to monitor important

metrics like response times of crucial

nodes availability and more you can even

access advanced features like agentless

monitoring and determine where

unresponsive machines are in your system

halfway there at number five and we have

catchpoint promising an easy way to

identify visualize and manage

interconnection and peering issues

across networks cashpoint provides full

visibility into your entire environment

the system provides you with insights

into services delivering edge local

transit hybrid and backbone networks by

proactively testing from a customer's

point of view at number four we have

paisler from prtg monitor the highly

customizable prtg monitoring solution

from paisler allows you to choose

between a range of sensor options to

monitor all the sectors of your network

each sensor also monitors an individual

value in your network such as hardware

parameter sensors bandwidth monitoring

sensors voip and quality of service

sensors as well number three op manager

created by the manage engine brand op

manager offers real-time monitoring of

the performance of your network devices

and can track everything from storage

devices to wireless lan controllers

firewalls and routers their customizable

dashboard comes with access to a huge

range of widgets so you can design your

monitoring experience from scratch at

number two datadog datadog's networking

monitoring tool gives you a complete

view of all your cloud and on-premises

networks including application layer

performance and health insights into any

of your devices you'll get full

visibility into every layer of your

infrastructure while monitoring for dns

performance application issues and more

and finally at number one here we have

solarwinds solarwinds network

performance monitor automatically tracks

your availability with advanced

performance analytics critical path

visualization and instant alerts keeping

you one step ahead of your network

there's access to intelligent mapping to

help you determine where connections are

coming from and which applications or

devices are consuming the most bandwidth

so that's a wrap on this week's top 10

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