Real-Time Network Monitoring

with Network Performance Monitor

Gain detailed, multi-vendor performance metrics in real time

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Continuous real-time monitoring in a simple, easy-to-use software

SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM) supports real-time network monitoring and helps you easily identify potential device faults, availability issues, and performance problems. This provides you with the actionable data you need to quickly troubleshoot and prevent potential issues from escalating. The intuitive NPM interface also makes it easier to quickly view important performance data and evaluate network health.

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Aggregate Past Data With the Intelligent Maps Time Travel Feature

With NPM, you can enable historical tracking in Intelligent Maps to expedite troubleshooting and repair initiatives. The Time Travel feature can display aggregate past event data on a configured map, so you can assess the impact these events had on connected entities. You can also review the state of your IT infrastructure before an outage occurs to gain additional insights into root cause analysis.

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Customize Real-Time Alerts and Reports to Stay Up-to-Date With Network Performance Monitoring Insights

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The intelligent network alerting system in NPM is built to send notifications based on real-time metrics. It can help you focus on the alerts that matter most by allowing you to create custom notifications based on simple or complex nested trigger conditions and network topology.

NPM can also be used to generate reports using out-of-the-box, community-generated, or customizable templates. You can also generate specific reports by department or recipient.

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Isolate Real-Time Network Monitoring Vulnerabilities to Expedite Troubleshooting

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Through its intuitive interface, NPM can help you drill down into specific network devices to discover real-time metrics. You can quickly view real-time device status, response time, and more information by isolating device performance with NPM. Isolating devices and network issues enables you to quickly begin troubleshooting and find makeshift solutions before diving deep into repairs. Additionally, NPM lets you easily toggle between isolated devices and your network map.

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Compare historical data to current metrics for in-depth understandings

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NPM is designed to track historical data and can use it to correlate with granular, real-time network information. Contrasting real-time data with historical benchmarks can help you pinpoint repetitive issues, discover network changes, and analyze performance and hardware health. Comparing historical information alongside current monitoring metrics can also help you understand your current performance in context.

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Do you find yourself asking…

What does real-time network monitoring software do?
Why is real-time network monitoring important?
How does real-time network monitoring work in NPM?
What are some of the important integrations?
What are the best practices of real-time network monitoring?

Real-time network monitoring software conveys real-time data through various features, including:

Network Maps
The software generates topology maps that automatically update with current information. This includes automatically adding or removing network devices as they join and leave your network.
Alerts
The tools can notify you as soon as performance issues are detected. By bringing problems to your attention immediately, network monitoring alerts enable you to quickly perform problem analysis, determine root causes, and administer fixes.
Reports
These reports enable you to access real-time, accurate network data and share it with collaborators. Many network monitoring tools can automatically generate reports and schedule them at regular intervals.

Real-time network monitoring software provides IT teams with immediate, actionable insights into the health, status, and performance of all devices and connections within a network.

Real-time visibility is crucial for optimizing bandwidth usage, ensuring optimal network and application performance, and facilitating proactive management—especially as networks become more complex and distributed across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Automated Incident Response
Integrating a network monitoring solution with ticketing and incident management platforms, such as SolarWinds incident response solution, enables the automatic creation of support tickets when issues are detected. This ensures the reliability of your most critical systems and improves user experience.
Centralized Visibility Across IT Ecosystems
By linking real-time monitoring capabilities with infrastructure management, observability platforms, or security information and event management systems, organizations can consolidate data from diverse sources. Organizations can design dashboards that focus on the performance and availability of key business applications or services. By tracking service-specific metrics and dependencies, IT departments can prioritize responses and minimize disruptions to core business operations.
Streamlined Collaboration and Communication
Integrations with messaging and collaboration tools allow real-time alerts and reports to be sent directly to the relevant teams or individuals. Whether through email, chat applications, or mobile notifications, this ensures the right stakeholders are immediately informed of network issues, even when working remotely or in different locations.
Automated Remediation and Workflow Orchestration
Some integrations enable monitoring systems to trigger automated remediation scripts or workflows in response to specific network events. For example, if a critical device goes offline, an integration with configuration management tools can initiate a predefined recovery process, minimizing downtime and reducing the need for manual intervention.
Enhanced Compliance and Reporting
Connecting monitoring solutions with compliance management platforms helps automate the collection and reporting of network activity data. This streamlines audit preparation and ensures regulatory requirements are consistently met, with real-time evidence available for inspectors or stakeholders.
Business Intelligence and Capacity Planning
Integrating real-time network data with analytics and business intelligence tools enables IT managers to gain actionable insights for network flow planning, budgeting, and resource optimization. Historical and live network traffic metrics can be analyzed alongside other business data to support strategic planning and operational improvements.

Real-time network monitoring software conveys real-time data through various features, including:

Network Maps
The software generates topology maps that automatically update with current information. This includes automatically adding or removing network devices as they join and leave your network.

Alerts
The tools can notify you as soon as performance issues are detected. By bringing problems to your attention immediately, network monitoring alerts enable you to quickly perform problem analysis, determine root causes, and administer fixes.

Reports
These reports enable you to access real-time, accurate network data and share it with collaborators. Many network monitoring tools can automatically generate reports and schedule them at regular intervals.

Real-time network monitoring software provides IT teams with immediate, actionable insights into the health, status, and performance of all devices and connections within a network.

Real-time visibility is crucial for optimizing bandwidth usage, ensuring optimal network and application performance, and facilitating proactive management—especially as networks become more complex and distributed across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Monitoring Hybrid, Multi-Cloud, and Distributed Environments
Real-time network monitoring is essential for organizations managing complex infrastructures. It provides unified visibility across all network assets, enabling IT teams to oversee distributed locations, remote workforces, and multiple sites from a single dashboard. This comprehensive oversight ensures healthy network performance.

Supporting Compliance and Regulatory Requirements
Many industries require continuous network monitoring to meet regulatory standards for data security and privacy. Real-time monitoring enables organizations to track network activities, generate auditable records, and demonstrate compliance with industry regulations.

Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis
A core application of real-time monitoring is the rapid identification and resolution of network issues. By providing instant access to performance metrics and device health, these tools allow IT teams to quickly isolate faults, minimize downtime, and maintain high service levels.

Proactively Managing a Network
Real-time monitoring enables organizations to move beyond reactive troubleshooting and adopt a proactive approach. By collecting and analyzing data, IT teams can identify performance trends and address potential bottlenecks before they impact users. This forward-looking management helps optimize resource allocation and supports business growth.

Detecting Anomalies
Continuous monitoring plays a vital role in maintaining network security. It enables immediate detection of suspicious activities, such as unauthorized access attempts or unusual traffic patterns.
Automated Incident Response
Integrating a network monitoring solution with ticketing and incident management platforms, such as SolarWinds incident response solution, enables the automatic creation of support tickets when issues are detected. This ensures the reliability of your most critical systems and improves user experience.

Centralized Visibility Across IT Ecosystems
By linking real-time monitoring capabilities with infrastructure management, observability platforms, or security information and event management systems, organizations can consolidate data from diverse sources. Organizations can design dashboards that focus on the performance and availability of key business applications or services. By tracking service-specific metrics and dependencies, IT departments can prioritize responses and minimize disruptions to core business operations.

Streamlined Collaboration and Communication
Integrations with messaging and collaboration tools allow real-time alerts and reports to be sent directly to the relevant teams or individuals. Whether through email, chat applications, or mobile notifications, this ensures the right stakeholders are immediately informed of network issues, even when working remotely or in different locations.

Automated Remediation and Workflow Orchestration
Some integrations enable monitoring systems to trigger automated remediation scripts or workflows in response to specific network events. For example, if a critical device goes offline, an integration with configuration management tools can initiate a predefined recovery process, minimizing downtime and reducing the need for manual intervention.

Enhanced Compliance and Reporting
Connecting monitoring solutions with compliance management platforms helps automate the collection and reporting of network activity data. This streamlines audit preparation and ensures regulatory requirements are consistently met, with real-time evidence available for inspectors or stakeholders.

Business Intelligence and Capacity Planning
Integrating real-time network data with analytics and business intelligence tools enables IT managers to gain actionable insights for network flow planning, budgeting, and resource optimization. Historical and live network traffic metrics can be analyzed alongside other business data to support strategic planning and operational improvements.
Performance Contextualization
Use historical data analysis to establish network baselines, allowing teams to accurately measure improvement and predict future capacity needs

Quality and Experience
Help teams correlate network performance metrics with the quality of experience for end users, such as bandwidth, latency, and packet loss

Security and Compliance
Help integrate monitoring with security practices, specifically utilizing user and entity behavior analytics to detect anomalous activities that signal potential security threats