All Network Monitoring Tools Are Created Equal, Right?
There’s a question I hear quite often in my conversations about network management: "Aren't all network monitoring tools basically the same?" Honestly, I understand why so many people feel this way. For as long as I remember, the primary role of these tools has been to tell you when something is already broken. Your team gets an alert—a switch is down, an application is slow, a circuit is saturated—and the fire-fighting process begins.