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The network monitoring teams can now tap into Internet-of-Things, software-level network, and cloud-based services to ensure maximum uptime and optimal network performance. However, adapting to these technologies would mean defining new practices for legacy architecture integration, reengineering the monitoring workflow, and evaluating the toolkit for enhancing comprehensive and layered network management.

As a vendor, understanding your bandwidth usage is an invaluable insight into how packages are distributed across your user base and how specific users have grown over a timeframe.

Azure Network Security Groups (NSG) are used to filter network traffic to and from resources in an Azure Virtual Network. If you’re coming from AWS-land, NSG’s combine Security Groups and NACL’s. Splunking NSG flow log data will give you access to detailed telemetry and analytics around network activity to & from your NSG's. If that doesn’t sound appealing to you yet, here are some of the many things you could Splunk with your network traffic logs from Azure.

Detect and stop fake web crawlers using HAProxy Enterprise’s Verify Crawler add-on. How your website ranks on Google can have a substantial impact on the number of visitors you receive, which can ultimately make or break the success of your online business. To keep search results fresh, Google and other search engines deploy programs called web crawlers that scan and index the Internet at a regular interval, registering new and updated content.

Cloud and digital transformation have made business operations more efficient than ever. However, with more connected tools, devices, and platforms, monitoring has become a major challenge for IT professionals. Here is a simple analogy – imagine, you are the captain of a ship with thousands of passengers. The entire ship’s control rests in your hands. To better understand what is going on in your ship, you have installed various tools.