Network Operations Posts

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Network Operations

What is QoS? A Complete Guide to Quality of Service in Networking

Quality of Service (QoS) refers to a collection of technologies and mechanisms that manage and prioritize network traffic, guaranteeing

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Network Operations

Understanding Network Monitoring and Its Shortcomings

Modern networks are sprawling, dynamic ecosystems that power nearly every business function. And to keep these systems running smoothly,

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Network Operations

Application Performance Metrics: Best Practices and Insights

Application performance has a large impact on the efficiency and success of an organization. Users expect fast, seamless, and

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Network Operations

Opportunity Cost and the Inflexible Network 

At a former job of mine, there was a tool that most of the company used but nobody liked.

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Network Operations

Why We Hate Direct Exporter-Collector Configurations

Odds are you have a lot of devices on your network that export data somewhere—whether that’s to a traffic

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Network Operations

Understanding MTTR (Mean Time to Respond) and How to Reduce It

Because system downtime can have serious financial and operational consequences, NetOps teams often find it useful to track MTTR

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Uncover Network Blind Spots with Plixer One 

In Part 2, we examined how network blind spots arise in today’s increasingly complex IT environments. Now, in this

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Uncovering Network Blind Spots: How to Achieve Total Network Visibility with Plixer

In today’s digital-first world, enterprise networks are more distributed and complex than ever. As companies rely increasingly on cloud-based

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Network Operations

Adding Endpoint Analytics to Flow Data

When we think about the world of Network Flow data, we usually think within Layers 3, 4, and 5.

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Network Operations

The changing needs of network performance monitoring

Recently, I was asked by one of our long-time customers whether Plixer had abandoned its traditional Network Performance Monitoring

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