Network monitoring systems allow businesses and organizations to oversee the performance of their networked components. These tools can alert network administrators to any issues, allowing them to be solved quickly and avoiding unnecessary downtime. By deploying a top network monitoring solution, businesses can save both time and money.
With much of the population working from home over the last 18 months, these monitoring tools have become more essential than ever.
There are many network monitoring options to choose from, ranging from free and open-source tools all the way up to costly high-end enterprise-grade solutions. The right network monitoring software for your business or organization will depend upon your individual needs. We have compiled and ranked a list of some of the leading network monitoring solutions to help with your decision.
Top 10 Network Monitoring Solutions
1. Paessler PRTG Network Monitor
PRTG Network Monitor is a powerful agentless all-in-one network monitoring solution for businesses of all sizes. It enables administrators to monitor all the systems, devices, applications, and traffic within their network. PRTG uses technologies such as SNMP, WMI, SSH, flow protocols or packet sniffing, HTTP requests, and SQL.
This software would be a great option for businesses and organizations with little experience in network monitoring thanks to its easy-to-use and customizable dashboard. Users have access to useful real-time network maps with live status information and can adapt the notification system to create flexible alerts.
PRTG Network Monitor is a cost-effective solution, offering a range of paid plans, and users can benefit from a free 30-day trial.
2. Site 24×7 Network Monitoring
Site 24X7 Network Monitoring is a cloud-based complete network monitoring solution that can automatically detect all network-connected devices and create a network topology map. Some of the key features of Site 24×7 include network mapping, VoIP monitoring, SNMP trap processing, sensor monitoring, device templates, and multivendor support. Site 27/4 allows users to track key performance metrics, such as memory and CPU usage, undersize and oversize packets, buffer failures, and VPN latency.
A limited version of Site 24×7 is available for free; otherwise, there are four paid versions of the software tailored to different needs.
3. LogicMonitor
Trusted by more than 2000 global enterprises, LogicMonitor is a fully-automated and cloud-based infrastructure monitoring platform designed for enterprise IT teams and Managed Service Providers. LogicMonitor can be used to monitor your entire infrastructure using one platform and has over 2000 pre-configured integrations. Its Anomaly Detection software is great at spotting trend deviations in network traffic, and its lightweight collector agents make logic monitor unintrusive.
4. ManageEngine OpManager
The ManageEngine Network Performance Monitor allows you to immediately pinpoint issues on your internet network by monitoring network device availability, CPU and memory, network traffic, errors and discards, and WAN performance. Notifications are sent via email, text message, or push notification to a cell phone, and each alert can be tuned to the thresholds of your choosing. OpManager’s NetFlow module provides in-depth visibility on network traffic patterns and bandwidth utilization with support for NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, IPFIX, and more.
5. Progress WhatsUp Gold
WhatsUp Gold has always been famous for its network monitoring capabilities, and its distinguishing “party trick” is its dynamic network discovery capabilities and network mapping that result in significantly less administrative overhead. You can configure real-time alerts for networks, traffic, and even server infrastructure. Logging is another great feature, verbose device data logging allows you to monitor, filter, search and alert from networking syslogs, then intelligently archive the logs to any location using a predefined retention period – perfect for compliance requirements.
6. Spiceworks Network Monitor
Spiceworks is a hugely popular network monitoring tool largely because it is 100% free for personal and business use. Best of all, it’s actually very good considering it is a free solution. It contains all the standard network tools for uptime, CPU, memory, and more, but it also lets you compare network states, like a before and after snapshot. This makes spotting network changes very easy and helps pinpoint issues quickly. Other helpful features include the ability to track when licenses are set to expire (perfect for SSL/TLS certs), built-in checks for whether antivirus is available and up to date, and basic vulnerability scanning to detect when system updates are required.
7. Idera Uptime Infrastructure Monitor
Idera is an all-in-one agent-based tool that monitors network deixes, servers, VMs, and applications via a clean, user-friendly interface. The network tool offers the usual standard features for gaining visibility of your network. Other great features include the capability to quickly view the status of core networks and alert you when the network starts slowing down. Additionally, Idera can integrate with a huge library of APIs.
8. Zabbix
While Zabbix is a well-known monitoring solution, did you know they have a network monitor tool available too? Zabbix focuses on 3 core networking metrics: network performance, network health, and configuration changes. This includes monitoring features such as network bandwidth usage, packet loss rate, interface error rate, high CPU or memory utilization, link status, device temperature, power supply state. If the network state changes, you will be alerted; some examples include a new device being added or removed, firmware releases, or serial number changes, to name just a few.
9. New Relic
New Relic is an entire suite of monitoring tools with a focus on the entire network stack of an application. New Relic is available as a managed service (New Relic One), or you can install and manage it locally. The Network Monitor (NPM) analyzes your network performance data to understand the root cause of issues fast, allowing you to find network glitches using AI routines.
10. ConnectWise Automate
ConnectWise is a feature-rich RMM popular with cloud MSPs. It can discover assets automatically, enabling endpoint management of devices making compliance simple. You can patch network devices from the console and remotely monitor the entire environment, making it easy to spot network bottlenecks, performance issues, and security threats.
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Atlantic.Net Engineers have first-hand experience with the complexities of monitoring networked systems. Because there are so many products out there, it might seem impossible to choose the right one. Network monitoring is so important, especially in today’s security-conscious world.
Having the ability to intelligently monitor your entire stack is essential, but some tools run the risk of becoming an administrative nightmare as the network grows with your business. The Atlantic.Net Cloud Platform will support all of these network monitoring tools discussed here, and we are available to discuss your monitoring needs.
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