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Top 10 Network and IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

Network and IT infrastructure monitoring is something necessary for all connected organizations today. However, choosing the right network monitoring tool and software is not easy as there is a huge diversity of these tools on the market now. Comprehensive network and IT monitoring tools help you manage your devices and ensure that they are available when you need them. These tools and software offer a wide variety of benefits for companies of all sizes.

Kentik Synthetics in 20 Seconds

You can't wait until an end user tells you an application is slow before you troubleshoot. Kentik Synthetics shows you exactly where the latency is, whether that's in a public cloud, your private network, and with your SaaS applications. By using Kentik synthetic tests, you can proactively monitor application performance and find out if there are problems before your end users do.

What is Internet Performance Monitoring and How is it Different from APM?

Most Internet-centric organizations today use some form of APM tools, as they should. But they are insufficient. Over the last ten years, the world has completely changed. If you think about it, in the first decade of this millennium, most businesses had an Exchange server, maybe Siebel CRM, a file share, and a range of other business apps, usually hosted in the same building. Everything was on the LAN. Today, it is the exact opposite. Everything is distributed.