NETSCOUT Network & Application Observability Features
Functionality (11)
Performance Monitoring
Continuously monitors network performance across the entire span of a network.
Alerting
Sends alerts via pop-up notifications, texts, emails, or calls regarding network issues or failures.
Improvement Suggestions
Suggests potential remedies or improvements to slowdowns, errors, or failures.
Multi-Network Capability
Provides monitoring capabilities for multiple networks at once.
Diverse Systems Monitoring
Monitor usage and activity on a diverse array of IT systems, e.g., servers, databases, and networks. This feature was mentioned in 10 NETSCOUT Network & Application Observability reviews.
Real-Time Analytics
Generate real-time high-level and/or in-depth analytics regarding monitored systems activity.
Observability
Generate insights into IT systems utilizing event metrics, logging, traces, and metadata.
AI/ML Integration
Integrate AI and/or machine learning capabilities to identify and address potential and active failures and errors.
Synthetic Monitoring
Monitors and test apps to address issues before they affect end users.
Dynamic Transaction Mapping
Provides dynamic end-to-end maps of every single transaction.
Cloud Observability
Monitors cloud microservices, containers, kubernetes, and other cloud native software.
Management (7)
Performance Baseline
Sets a standard performance baseline by which to compare live network activity.
Data Visualization
Charts or graphs live and historical network performance for quick status checking and analysis.
Path Analysis
Gives insights into which specific network paths are performing suboptimally.
Single Pane of Glass
Consolidate IT systems monitoring overviews to a single pane for quick insights.
Dashboards and Visualization
Offer pre-built and custom reporting and dashboards for quick insights into system states.
Performance Baselines
Set expected baselines for system functions.
Alerting
Create and distribute detailed alerts via email, phone, and messaging for potential and active failures and errors.
Monitoring (10)
Usage Monitoring
Tracks infrastructure resource needs and alerts administrators or automatically scales usage to minimize waste.
Database Monitoring
Monitors performance and statistics related to memory, caches and connections.
API Monitoring
Detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering.
Real-Time Monitoring - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Constantly monitors system to detect anomalies in real time.
Security and Compliance Monitoring
Enables monitoring of security and compliance standards across cloud infrastructure.
Performance Baselines
Performance Analysis
Performance Monitoring
AI/ML Assistance
Multi-System Monitoring
Administration (3)
Activity Monitoring
Actively monitor status of work stations either on-premise or remote.
Multi-Cloud Management
Allows users to track and control cloud spend across cloud services and providers.
Auto-Scaling & Resource Optimization
Automatically scales resources based on demand and optimizes for performance and cost.
Analysis (2)
Reporting
Creates reports outlining resource, underutilization, cost trends, and/or functional overlap.
Dashboards and Visualizations
Presents information and analytics in a digestible, intuitive, and visually appealing way.
Response (3)
Dashboards and Visualization
Incident Alerting
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Performance (1)
Second by Second Metrics
Provides high-frequency metrics data.
Monitoring - Network Monitoring (3)
360-Degree Network Visibility
Offers full observability of all network environments, including on-premises, cloud, SD-WAN, WLAN, and edge computing.
Automated Network Discovery
Automatically detects and maps all network devices and architectures, reducing manual effort and improving visibility.
Real-Time Monitoring
Provides true real-time network monitoring to detect and resolve issues instantly, rather than relying on near-time data.
Analytics - Network Monitoring (2)
Predictive Performance Analytics
Uses AI-driven analysis of historical and real-time data to forecast network issues before they impact performance.
Packet & Flow Analysis
Combines packet and flow analysis techniques to provide a comprehensive view of network traffic and performance.
Security - Network Monitoring (3)
Encrypted Data Transmission
Ensures all monitored network data is securely encrypted both in transit and at rest.
Zero Trust and Identity Management
Supports integration with Zero Trust frameworks and identity management solutions to enhance network security.
Integrated Network Security
Unifies network performance monitoring with security intelligence to identify and mitigate threats in real-time.
AI Automation - Network Monitoring (1)
Machine Learning-Based Anomaly Detection
Uses machine learning to identify network anomalies, preventing security and performance issues before they escalate.
Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability (2)
Multi-Telemetry Ingestion
Ingests and processes multiple telemetry types, such as logs, metrics, and traces.
OpenTelemetry Support
Supports ingestion and standardization of observability data via OpenTelemetry protocol.
Visualization & Dashboards - Observability (3)
Service Dependency Mapping
Displays relationships between services to visualize system dependencies.
Unified Dashboard
Provides a consolidated view of system-wide telemetry in a single dashboard.
Trace Visualization
Allows users to explore and visualize distributed traces and span relationships.
Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability (3)
Cross-Telemetry Correlation
Correlates logs, metrics, and traces to surface performance patterns and root causes.
Root Cause Detection
Identifies likely causes of issues using system insights and correlation logic.
Intelligent Alerting
Automatically alerts users to anomalies or critical events using contextual data.
Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability (2)
Kubernetes Monitoring
Provides observability into containerized workloads and Kubernetes clusters.
Hybrid/Multi-Cloud Support
Enables observability across public cloud, private cloud, and on-prem environments.
AI Features - Observability (3)
Predictive Insights
Forecasts future system issues based on historical performance trends.
AI-Generated Incident Summaries
Summarizes incident root causes and potential fixes using generative AI.
AI Anomaly Detection
Uses machine learning to detect unusual behavior across telemetry data.
Agentic AI - Network Monitoring (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM) (5)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring (6)
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Enterprise Monitoring (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring (2)
AI-Powered Anomaly Detection
Utilizes machine learning to automatically detect and alert on unusual patterns in infrastructure metrics.
AI-Driven Insight Recommendations
Provides AI-generated insights and actionable recommendations to optimize resource performance and cost.
Agentic AI - Observability Software (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives



