Network Latency Test
Test, measure, and reduce network latency
Use network latency test monitoring tools to analyze network response time
The Quality of Experience (QoE) dashboard in SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is built to measure network response time and run network latency tests to help identify areas for improvement.
The QoE dashboard also pulls metadata directly from sensors in your physical and virtual servers—no more guessing how network latency affects end users.
Easily identify the source of performance problems with a network latency test tool
Network latency, or network response time, is a measure of the amount of time required for a packet to travel across a network path from a sender to a receiver. When network path latency occurs, performance can be affected.
With the network latency test tool in SolarWinds NPM, users can more easily identify the source and nature of network performance problems or application reliability issues to better perform network optimization. NPM also includes customizable alerts on latency issues, so you can be made aware of issues before users notice them.
Find out if network response time issues are being caused by applications or the larger network
With NPM, users can analyze and identify network traffic with a single network latency monitoring tool.
SolarWinds NPM is designed to calculate network response time and categorize over 1,200 applications by risk level and relation to typical business function. This function can help you determine whether end-user quality of experience is being negatively affected by the whole network or just one application.
Understand latency monitoring vs. testing for enhanced insights
Latency monitoring can provide insight into whether the network is performing as expected. As an in-depth network latency test tool, NPM is designed to go beyond basic monitoring to actively measure response time for apps across your business network, like Skype, SQL Server, and more.
With easy-to-read dashboard displays, NPM can help you more easily identify high-latency slowdowns in real time.
Get More on Network Latency
Do you find yourself asking…
Network latency issues occur when network packets fail to reach their destinations or experience delays on the journey. Such issues can be caused by many different factors, but it helps to get a working definition of network latency before diving into network latency issues.
Issues with network latency response time or “high latency” might look like websites not loading, data taking too long to send, and slow applications.
Common causes of latency include:
- Propagation, or the time to takes a packet to travel from source to destination
- Overutilized routers or too few routers
- Transmission types like WAN or fiber optic
- Storage delays
Network latency issues occur when network packets fail to reach their destinations or experience delays on the journey. Such issues can be caused by many different factors, but it helps to get a working definition of network latency before diving into network latency issues.
Issues with network latency response time or “high latency” might look like websites not loading, data taking too long to send, and slow applications.
Common causes of latency include:
- Propagation, or the time to takes a packet to travel from source to destination
- Overutilized routers or too few routers
- Transmission types like WAN or fiber optic
- Storage delays
Master network latency monitoring with a network latency test tool
Network Performance Monitor
- Multi-vendor fault, performance, and availability monitoring with Network Performance Monitor.
- Advanced network troubleshooting for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud services with critical path hip-by-hop analysis.
- PerfStack™ cross-stack network data correlation.
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