The document discusses the importance of integrating an app-centric network traffic analyzer with application performance management (APM) tools to enhance user experience by identifying network issues affecting app performance. It outlines five key features of such analyzers, including visibility into network usage, prioritization of traffic, detection of latency issues, recognizing denial of service attacks, and providing access to network health data via mobile devices. The document promotes ManageEngine's NetFlow Analyzer as a solution to bridge the gap between networking and app performance.

1. When your
App hits the
highway
5 reasons why you
should include an
App-centric Network
Traffic Analyzer into
your APM mix.
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2. Traditional APM
approach
Its like tuning a car. Ensuring that the components
such as powertrain/ transmission/ suspension,
braking etc. are all optimized for high-speed. In
APM terms it’s the database/ appserver/
webserver/ code. Tune. Tune. Tune.
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3. Roaring
Performance
That’s what every single APM tool in the market
aspires to achieve. Every step in the APM tool
development in recent years has been towards
this weeding out performance bottlenecks and
ensuring roaring performance of the app.
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4. But what if your
network looks like
this?
Your app is only as fast as the network.
Irrespective of whether you have a Porsche or a
Ferrari you would be only as fast as the car
ahead of you when you are stuck in traffic.
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5. End-user-experience
will be hit
In such a situation, if you have deployed a SAAS
based APM tool it would report back the end user
experience levels across your various branch
offices as AFFECTED or POOR. Now that you
know the user experience is impacted what would
you do next?
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6. App is just fine but end users are
suffering…how do you bridge the
gap?

7. Datacenter App
Branch Offices
Mobile Users
This is where an
App-centric Network
Traffic Analyzer can
help.
Introducing ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer
v10. The bridge between the networking and the
app world. It helps you visualize your network
traffic with an app centric view.
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8. 5 ways an App-centric Network
Traffic Analyzer could help you

9. #1 Know who is
using the road
Get the visibility on who (else) is using your
network. Drill deeper and find out which
Ipaddress, country, protocol, application, alien is
occupying your network and making your app
crawl to its knees.
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10. Top Application
– Layer4

11. Top Application
– Layer7

12. How much that top
application consumed
over time …

13. Was the situation the
same across your
branch offices …
We can add top sources for this
app in this page itself

14. Top protocols
Top
Sources/Destin
ations

15. Top sources
Top
destinations

16. #2 Know who’s on
the fast lane
Networks are hardwired to give high priority to
packets that are stamped high priority. For
example if you are running a video conference
app but there are other packets marked with
higher priority then your video packets miss the
fast lane resulting in delay/lag in video calls.
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17. Top DSCP codes –
Across the entire
Network

18. Top DSCP codes – at
a given interface

19. If wrong guy gets top
priority then tweak
the traffic controller
(router)… check if
fast lane is restored.

20. #3 Detect pot holes
that slow you down
Using IPSLA technology you can send packets for
testing and detect potholes in your network, that
slow the traffic down, without even travelling. Get
behind the service providers networks and detect
hop by hop latency (round-trip-time).
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21. Identify the exact
hop where latency is
higher (the pothole)

22. Check today’s
performance in the
snapshot page

23. Identify how your
voice calls perform
inside your service
provider network

24. #4 Detect denial of
service attacks
Natural or man made there are always some kind
of intrusion/attack that hampers the speed of your
app. Identifying and eliminating them is important
to avoiding a pileup (outage).
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25. Open your day with
the list of fresh
attacks in the last 24
hours

26. Identify the attackers
– their IP, their
country

27. Identify the interface /
device that got hit the
Identify your most hit
interface / device.
most

28. Drill deeper into the
attack. Find out source
span/ unique
connections, volume
of packets sent

29. #5 Get everything on
your finger tips
Access your network health / security data on
your iphone or android phone. Be 100% sure that
the network is just fine and the app is accessed
by end users without any problems. Have a good
night sleep.
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30. Zoom in live traffic
data

31. Check interface vitals

32. Check application
usage

33. Thank You for
reading
You can download ManageEngine
NetFlow Analyzer for your traffic needs
and ManageEngine Applications
Manager for your APM needs from our
website.
www.manageengine.com.
@irdevanand
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