Network Engineer at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
AppNeta's PathView Cloud provides agent-less end-to-end network monitoring.
What is most valuable?
Agentless, real-time monitoring of networks and applications.
Identify hop-by-hop network performance.
Monitor end-to-end performance through service-provider MPLS clouds or on private networks.
Hosted service with minimal configuration required.
What needs improvement?
Uses "micro-appliances" which must be installed onto the network.
Does not perform traditional SNMP/CLI/NetFlow/WMI etc monitoring.
What other advice do I have?
AppNeta provides a range of products, all based around intelligent network testing algorithms. PathView cloud is their hosted service, relying on miniature plug and play network devices which phone home to the cloud service.
The "micro-appliances" are actually network sequencers which generate network traffic, then record and process the results. The general idea is to target an end-device (server, router, etc), with the intent of measuring the path between the micro-appliance and the end-device.
The application is designed to monitor network paths, not necessarily devices so won't replace your NMS. But, it does a surprisingly good job of detecting network capacity, as well as potential problems with a path.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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