What’s your network doing right now? Where is traffic flowing to, and where’s it coming from? Are there bottlenecks you don’t know about? Where’s the next problem going to be? Network traffic pattern analysis answers these questions and more. It’s a way for you to examine how your clients use your networks. You may think you know how heavily your clients utilize each segment and VLAN and where the weak points are. But do you?

What kind of questions do you ask when you look at infrastructure monitoring tools? You probably start with some of the more important ones: All of the above are good questions and definitely should be asked. After all, if you acquire a solution that only monitors half of your network devices, has an incredibly complicated and difficult to use UI or doesn’t move you from reactive to proactive, the benefits are limited.

The cloud offers unparalleled flexibility. However, that flexibility comes at a cost. The amount of moving pieces increases. The environment becomes more heterogeneous. So, if you want to stay on top of things, you need a more comprehensive view of your cloud infrastructure. After all, you don’t want your customers to realize that something has gone awry before your people do. In this post, I’m going to talk about cloud monitoring.

Let’s say that you’re a real estate investor with lots of buildings in your portfolio. But you choose not to employ a caretaker when you fully know that you aren’t always available to monitor every building. What do you think will become of some of them?

Companies are increasingly adopting cloud services. They’re cost-efficient, scalable, and give you time to market by getting your ideas out there as quickly as possible. However, cloud services don’t have extensive, in-built cloud application monitoring. This is where Netreo steps in. Let’s take a look at what cloud computing is. After that, we’ll dive into cloud application monitoring and how it affects business decisions.