SD-WAN Monitoring
Maximize the potential of your SD-WAN deployments
Discover key SD-WAN insights
- Evaluate SD-WAN health with metrics such as jitter, packet loss, and latency
- Diagnose issues with detailed SD-WAN troubleshooting capabilities
- Monitor SD-WAN uplinks and access key information
- Ensure network resilience with High Availability
- Maximize edge device performance and efficiency over time
SD-WAN edge device monitoring and management
- Add edge devices for monitoring with minimal effort
- Streamline your setup process by automatically retrieving device hostnames and IP addresses
- Focus on essential components by choosing the specific devices you want to track
- Enable SD-WAN polling for seamless legacy device integration
SD-WAN policies
- Streamlined SD-WAN policy management
- Scenario-specific policy definition and action triggers
- Continuous performance assessment for optimizing routing
- Real-time uplink failover impact monitoring
SD-WAN alerts
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted streamlines SD-WAN monitoring with alert notifications during uplink failovers. It also lets you visualize traffic changes with NetFlow integration and assess policy impacts for better management and troubleshooting.
SD-WAN Monitoring FAQ
How does SD-WAN work?
SD-WAN, or Software-Defined Wide-Area Network, is a game-changing technology that redefines how businesses manage their networks and applications. At its core, SD-WAN enhances the quality of user experiences by intelligently directing traffic based on the nature of the applications. It ensures applications run smoothly and securely, aligning with business priorities.
Under the hood, SD-WAN creates a virtual layer over various network connections like MPLS, internet broadband, or wireless. This overlay simplifies network management and allows for real-time traffic control. A central controller, often in the form of software, orchestrates data flows, distributing network and security policies across connected devices. This centralization streamlines the setup of network edge devices, reducing manual configurations.
SD-WAN comes in two primary flavors: overlay SD-WAN, where a vendor provides the necessary software within a network edge device, and managed SD-WAN, where providers handle the network for you. Despite the different options, all SD-WAN deployments typically offer virtualization of WAN connections, centralized policy control, orchestration, and dynamic traffic management.
Overall, SD-WAN delivers cost-efficiency, network flexibility, and improved application performance, making it a top choice for modern businesses. It separates applications from the network and ensures each one has the best connection based on predefined rules, ultimately transforming how enterprises handle their networking needs.
How does SD-WAN work?
SD-WAN, or Software-Defined Wide-Area Network, is a game-changing technology that redefines how businesses manage their networks and applications. At its core, SD-WAN enhances the quality of user experiences by intelligently directing traffic based on the nature of the applications. It ensures applications run smoothly and securely, aligning with business priorities.
Under the hood, SD-WAN creates a virtual layer over various network connections like MPLS, internet broadband, or wireless. This overlay simplifies network management and allows for real-time traffic control. A central controller, often in the form of software, orchestrates data flows, distributing network and security policies across connected devices. This centralization streamlines the setup of network edge devices, reducing manual configurations.
SD-WAN comes in two primary flavors: overlay SD-WAN, where a vendor provides the necessary software within a network edge device, and managed SD-WAN, where providers handle the network for you. Despite the different options, all SD-WAN deployments typically offer virtualization of WAN connections, centralized policy control, orchestration, and dynamic traffic management.
Overall, SD-WAN delivers cost-efficiency, network flexibility, and improved application performance, making it a top choice for modern businesses. It separates applications from the network and ensures each one has the best connection based on predefined rules, ultimately transforming how enterprises handle their networking needs.
Maximize network performance and security with proactive SD-WAN monitoring
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted
- Infrastructure, network, and application performance observability
- Physical and virtual hosts, SD-WAN, and device monitoring
- Automated discovery and dependency mapping