Network Flow Monitoring | Datadog

Network Flow Monitoring

Monitor network flows and performance metrics across cloud-based and containerized environments.

Product Benefits

Live Network Monitoring, Mapping, and Analysis

  • Collect Layer 3 network traffic data from any source, including traffic between containers, VMs, and serverless functions
  • Analyze network flow data to pinpoint underperforming cloud regions, datacenters, and devices
  • Pair network flow monitoring with SNMP-based device metrics in one platform

Aggregate Network Data Across Tags, Not IPs

  • Leverage network flow monitoring built for the cloud
  • Speed up network performance analysis by filtering traffic flow by source or destination without writing any queries
  • Clarify network complexity by grouping traffic by any tag in Datadog, including container ID, team, role, service or availability zone
  • Resolve details at the port level by investigating a detailed view of relevant data with a single click

Centralize Troubleshooting with One Platform

  • Replace a monitoring patchwork with a single platform for metrics, traces, logs and the network
  • Distinguish between network and application issues with one-click panels showing relevant application traces and metrics
  • Educate engineers and stakeholders by providing company-wide analytics from the perspective of applications, infrastructure, or the network

Optimize Network Traffic Costs and Performance

  • Track inefficient and expensive traffic patterns with the live network map
  • Reveal all the dependencies in your entire network
  • Visualize inefficiencies like improper load balancing
  • Quickly identify the teams responsible for heavy bandwidth consumption

Cloud Hybrid On-Prem

Network Monitoring Capability Map

Cloud Network Monitoring (CNM)

  • Correlate application, infrastructure, and network monitoring data
  • Get visibility into traffic between modern cloud-native microservices
  • Monitor connectivity performance across cloud & on-premises endpoints

Cloud Network Monitoring &
Network Device Monitoring

  • Gain a hop-by-hop view of hybrid network traffic in a single pane of glass
  • Correlate NetFlow traffic to the infrastructure & applications responsible for the connection
  • Pivot from service-level communication to underlying physical network devices

Network Device Monitoring (NDM)

  • Unify monitoring data across all physical and virtual network devices
  • Achieve comprehensive WAN and hybrid network visibility with extensive vendor coverage
  • Accelerate MTTR with correlation between NetFlow traffic & device metrics
Cloud Hybrid On-Prem

The Essential Monitoring and Security Platform for the Cloud Age

Datadog brings together end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs to make your applications, infrastructure, and third-party services entirely observable.

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