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Broadcom officially closed on the acquisition of AppNeta on Jan 31, 2022. This marks a new beginning for AppNeta and the Broadcom network monitoring software business. AppNeta will take the lead in our vision to enable Network Visibility Anywhere, focusing especially on operational blind spots and experience in the last mile. We aim to ensure a quality digital experience anywhere while working, transacting, communicating and automating.

In your career, if your role has ever included the monitoring or managing of any network infrastructure devices such as switches, routers, firewalls, etc., you’ve very likely heard of SNMP. In case you haven’t, SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol, and, unlike its name suggests, it is anything but simple. It is a standard protocol for collecting information from network devices and organizing it in a way that humans can (sort of) understand.

Our networks are always changing and evolving. Network Testing for higher speeds, better application and network device performance, and after a new service deployment or migration, helps us understand the impact of changes on our network. In this article, we’re running you through how to test network performance using Network Testing and Monitoring tools.

Microsoft Windows is one of the most widely used operating systems and is preferred by users all around the world. A Windows device is associated with a lot of processes, services, and events that often need to be tracked from a single console. This is where a Windows network monitoring tool comes in handy. A Windows network monitoring tool is used to monitor the availability and performance of Windows devices in a network.

Just as the cloud has enabled a highly customisable, subscription-based approach to almost everything consumers and businesses seek to consume, organisations are viewing the network as the next logical step for a consumption-based approach. The recently released Deloitte 2022 Technology Industry Outlook looks at how leaders across all industries are embracing service-based IT - delivered via cloud - for increased agility, new capabilities, and better management of capacity and costs.

One of the powerful tools available in Grafana Cloud is Synthetic Monitoring, a black box monitoring solution that can provide insights that are hard to get in other ways. It provides a different view of your application by observing performance and uptime externally and from all over the world. As a result, you can build an understanding of what your end users are actually experiencing. However, as great as it is, synthetic monitoring does have limitations.