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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General
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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General
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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Network Operations
Client and server reports in Plixer Scrutinizer
In our new release of Scrutinizer version 19.1.0, we have included a handful of new reports that help to
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Network Operations
Searching NetFlow for a private host behind a NAT router
Inbound traffic that is captured and exported as NetFlow by your NAT router only shows that the destination of
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