Introduction: What's your network's weakest link?
Your network is only as strong as its weakest link. This weak link can lead to catastrophic results: lost revenue, frustrated customers, and overwhelmed IT teams. Modern networks—spanning SD-WAN, cloud, and on-premises systems—are complex ecosystems that demand unified oversight.
Unified SD-WAN monitoring: More than just a buzzword
SD-WANs offer flexibility, efficiency, and security for businesses that are choosing cloud-first and remote-first environments. However, the complexity of managing SD-WAN traffic alongside other network resources—like on-premises equipment, private cloud, and legacy systems—can lead to siloed monitoring tools that don't provide a clear picture of the entire network's health.
Site24x7 answers this challenge with a comprehensive, unified network monitoring tool that consolidates monitoring of SD-WAN and on-premises networks under one powerful platform. Integrating visibility, proactive management, and actionable insights transforms the way businesses manage their networks. Let's explore how.
Site24x7's unified SD-WAN monitoring
1. Cisco Meraki monitoring with REST-API or SNMP
Scenario: You are managing multiple Cisco Meraki devices across various branches, and you need an easy way to track bandwidth utilization, device health, and application performance.
How Site24x7 helps: Interactive dashboards provide a bird's-eye view of performance, while the Meraki Map view views allow you to track Meraki devices visually. This means you can instantly spot which device is underperforming or when a link is experiencing trouble—enabling faster troubleshooting and problem resolution.
Metrics to monitor: Bandwidth utilization, device availability, response time, packet loss, WAN health, and application-specific performance.
2. Proactive Cisco ACI Monitoring for modern data centers
Scenario: Your team relies heavily on Cisco application-centric infrastructure (ACI) to manage its data centers. A single misconfiguration can throw your applications into chaos, but your current tool doesn't provide deep enough visibility into ACI-specific metrics.
How Site24x7 helps: Site24x7's Cisco ACI monitoring tailors its approach to focus on its health. However, you can leverage the built-in network configuration management (NCM) tool—with its out-of-the-box compliance monitoring and firmware vulnerabilities management—to help you stay ahead of potential disruptions before they affect end users.
Metrics to monitor: Health score of Cisco ACI components, application-specific traffic, and more.
3. Comprehensive VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN monitoring
Scenario: Managing a distributed SD-WAN environment with multiple edge devices can be tricky, especially when trying to correlate data between remote branches, cloud services, and headquarters. You need a tool that gives you real-time insights into your WAN edge health and network link quality.
How Site24x7 helps: Site24x7's VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN monitoring provides in-depth monitoring of WAN edge health, link quality, and application performance metrics. Whether it's jitter, packet loss, or latency, Site24x7's real-time alerts allow you to isolate the root cause of any network disruptions quickly.
Metrics to monitor: Availability, CPU utilization, memory utilization, link quality (latency, jitter, packet loss), WAN edge health, application-specific traffic metrics, and network bandwidth.
4. Hybrid network visibility
Scenario: You operate in a hybrid IT environment with a mix of cloud-based applications and on-premises systems. Managing both environments with separate tools leads to wasted time and confusion when trying to identify the source of issues.
How Site24x7 helps: Site24x7 brings all your networks—cloud, SD-WAN, and on-premises (for example: Cisco routers and Cisco Meraki appliances)—under one unified monitoring platform. By consolidating monitoring into one dashboard, you can identify where your network is struggling and whether it's in the cloud or on-premises, without switching between multiple interfaces.
Metrics to monitor: Device health, bandwidth, latency, and configurations.
5. Real-time insights with intelligent alerts
Scenario: A performance issue arises, but you missed noticing it, leading to a bad experience for end users. You need a tool that alerts you in real time when something goes wrong.
How Site24x7 helps: With Site24x7's intelligent alerts, your team is notified the moment a performance threshold is breached—whether it's bandwidth spikes, device health drops, or slow response times. These alerts are customizable and ensure you're not overwhelmed with false positives.
Metrics to monitor: Response time thresholds, bandwidth limits, service-level agreements (SLAs) adherence, and resource usage spikes.
Why is unified SD-WAN monitoring essential?
Does your current tool allow you to monitor everything from cloud applications to legacy systems without breaking a sweat?
With networks becoming more distributed and complex, using multiple monitoring tools for different parts of your network only creates confusion and inefficiency. Site24x7 breaks down these silos and provides a unified monitoring solution that scales as your network grows.
Addressing common network challenges
Networks are dynamic, and the challenges they face demand constant vigilance.
- Unplanned downtime: Network outages can cost businesses a lot in terms of lost productivity and revenue. Site24x7 helps IT teams with real-time monitoring to find and fix problems before they get worse.
- Performance bottlenecks: Struggling with unpredictable latency and network congestion? Site24x7 pinpoints the root cause, whether it's a bandwidth-hogging application or a misconfigured device.
- Security blind spots: As cyberattacks thrive in the absence of visibility, Site24x7's continuous monitoring ensures vulnerabilities are identified and addressed swiftly.
- Fragmented management tools: IT teams juggling multiple tools for on-premises and SD-WAN monitoring waste time and resources. Site24x7 consolidates network management into a unified dashboard.
- Scaling pains: Site24x7's flexible platform grows with you, giving you the confidence to expand without worrying about increasing monitoring complexities.
Implementation and ease of use
Does the thought of adopting a new monitoring solution seem daunting? Fear not, as Site24x7 ensures a smooth journey. Here's how:
- Faster onboarding: Get started in as few as five minutes.
- Customizable dashboards: Highlight what matters most to your network.
- User-friendly design: Simplify the IT team's workflow.
- Round-the-clock support: Access detailed documentation, step-by-step guides, and expert support whenever you need assistance.
How much time and effort could you save with an implementation process that's this efficient?
Comparison to alternatives
The market offers many monitoring tools, but Site24x7 differentiates itself in key ways:
- All-in-one observability: Monitor all your applications, servers, networks and other infrastructure in one tool.
- Unified coverage: Few tools consolidate SD-WAN, cloud, and on-premises monitoring as effectively as Site24x7.
- Cost efficiency: Reduce operational overhead by replacing multiple tools with a single solution.
- Scalable insights: Whether managing a single location or a global enterprise, Site24x7 adapts to your needs without compromise.
- AI-driven intelligence: Advanced analytics transform raw data into actionable insights that help you stay ahead of potential issues.
Is your current solution delivering the level of innovation and efficiency you need?
See Site24x7 in action
Transform how you manage your network with Site24x7. From SD-WAN performance to legacy system monitoring, it provides the visibility, scalability, and security your business needs to thrive.
Start your free trial today or schedule a demo to discover how Site24x7 can unlock your network's full potential.
