SD-WAN Monitoring

SD-WAN, or Software-Defined Wide-Area-Network, is a game-changing technology which redefines how businesses’ manage their networks and applications. At its core, SD-WAN enhances the quality of user experiences by intelligently directing traffic based on the nature of the applications. It ensures applications run smoothly and securely, aligning with business priorities.
 

Under the hood, SD-WAN creates a virtual layer over various network connections like MPLS, internet broadband, or wireless. This overlay simplifies network management and allows for real-time traffic control. A central controller, often in the form of software, orchestrates data flows, distributing network and security policies across connected devices. This centralization streamlines the setup of network edge devices, reducing manual configurations.
 

SD-WAN comes in two primary flavors: overlay SD-WAN, where a vendor provides the necessary software within a network edge device, and managed SD-WAN, where providers handle the network for you. Despite the different options, all SD-WAN deployments typically offer virtualization of WAN connections, centralized policy control, orchestration, and dynamic traffic management.
 

Overall, SD-WAN delivers cost-efficiency, network flexibility, and improved application performance, making it a top choice for modern businesses. It separates applications from the network and ensures each one has the best connection based on predefined rules, ultimately transforming how enterprises handle their networking needs.

The correct approach to SD-WAN monitoring is essential for ensuring the optimal performance, security, and reliability of SD-WAN Networks. It provides real-time visibility into network behavior, performance metrics, and security events, enabling proactive issue resolution, resource optimization, and compliance adherence.
 

SD-WAN Monitoring helps identify and address bottlenecks, latency, packet loss, and performance degradation, ensuring critical applications receive the necessary bandwidth and quality of service. It aids in SD-WAN troubleshooting identifying network anomalies, reducing downtime, and minimizing business impact.
 

By using the right SD-WAN monitoring tools, capacity planning, and security enhancements are facilitated by analyzing historical data. In scenarios where multiple tunnels and service providers are in use, it's important to ensure the SD-WAN monitoring software in use will enable administrators to drill down and get the metrics they need to identify problematic service providers.
 

SD-WAN monitoring tools correlate overlay and underlay metrics for a comprehensive understanding of network performance. In a landscape where WANs are becoming more distributed and complex, traditional monitoring tools are inadequate, necessitating a heterogeneous, user-centric, end-to-end approach to SD-WAN performance monitoring.

SD-WAN, or Software-Defined Wide Area Network, offers significant advantages for modern network management. One of its key benefits is the flexibility it provides in configuring SD-WAN topology.

Organizations can design their network architecture to suit their specific needs, whether it’s optimizing traffic flow, improving redundancy, or enhancing network efficiency. This approach results in reduced latency, improved network performance, and enhanced data transfer within the network.

Additionally, SD-WAN enhances security by allowing for centralized control and encryption, protecting data in transit. It simplifies network administration, reducing downtime, and ensuring a more reliable and scalable network infrastructure. In summary, SD-WAN’s ability to adapt and optimize network topology makes it a valuable tool for organizations seeking to streamline their network operations.

Hybrid Cloud Observability offers comprehensive monitoring support for a range of SD-WAN vendors. We proudly support the vendors below, ensuring you can seamlessly monitor and optimize your SD-WAN network performance and security. Always check the latest release notes for the most current list of supported vendors.

Meraki:

Hybrid Cloud Observability SD-WAN monitoring for Meraki devices involves enabling SD-WAN polling for Meraki devices to access the SD-WAN Orchestrator details page, which offers widgets for device management, performance details, network topology, and more, allowing comprehensive monitoring of Meraki SD-WAN infrastructure.

Viptela:

For Viptela SD-WAN monitoring you simply enable SD-WAN polling for Viptela orchestrator nodes, which will give you access to various widgets for managing and viewing device details, alerts, events, and network connections of the edge devices paired with the orchestrator, allowing you to effectively monitor your Viptela SD-WAN infrastructure.

Velocloud:

To enhance VeloCloud SD-WAN monitoring, you can seamlessly add edge devices managed by a monitored VeloCloud orchestrator and retrieve comprehensive information using the VeloCloud API.

We are continually working to expand our list of supported vendors, so it's always a good practice to stay updated by checking our release notes for the most current information on newly supported devices. Our commitment to a multi-vendor approach in SD-WAN monitoring allows us to adapt to the diverse technology landscape, ensuring your evolving SD-WAN infrastructure remains well-supported, regardless of the vendors you choose to incorporate.