Cloud Monitoring

Providing Comprehensive Cloud Visibility 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure dominate cloud migration with broad platform support, flexible pricing, and near-unlimited scalability. But as your cloud environments evolve, risks like downtime or performance issues can outweigh the benefits if not managed properly.

Everyone—business owners, network engineers, DevOps, and cloud architects—relies on optimal cloud performance. The key? Unmatched visibility across cloud services to ensure network and application assurance.

The VIAVI Observer Platform bridges the gap, combining traditional packet capture and flow analysis with advanced cloud-hosted risk mitigation and end-user experience insights. Deliver cloud visibility that matches your on-premises reliability, making your migration seamless and secure.

Rising to the Cloud Visibility Challenges

When services are delivered in the on-premises data center, infrastructure and network data sources are readily available. When adding cloud monitoring to the equation, visibility and access to data becomes more complicated.
Flying blind in the cloud is not an option, so Observer compliments the data obtained from packets, metadata, and Enriched Flow records with VPC Flow logs from AWS environments or Network Security Group (NSG) Flow logs ingested from Azure cloud environments. These rich data sources are comb 

A simplified and unified cloud visibility solution provides invaluable insight into:

• Compliance: Flow logs provide detailed conversation data to aid in the identification of traffic patterns that violate company policies and standards. Observer also leverages this information to validate the service architecture configuration and identify overly permissive settings. 
• Performance-Based ROI: Measuring performance before and after a cloud migration effort is essential to understand the ROI achieved when moving to the cloud. The same types of measurements and analysis should also be used to make future capacity planning decisions.   
• Forensic Analysis: In the event of a security breach, flow log data ingested from the cloud becomes important forensic evidence, aiding in the understanding and investigation of malicious activities.
• End User Experience: EUE monitoring is used to measure the quality of experience delivered to your end users. AWS visibility is used to quantify performance on a numeric scale and establish logical response thresholds.

   

  

VIAVI Observer Bridges the Gap

The Observer Platform brings enhanced, multi-faceted visibility to on-premises, cloud, and hybrid IT environments. Efficient workflows and intuitive dashboards fueled by three-dimensional data sources help to satisfy business goals while effectively overcoming IT challenges. The value of the Observer platform truly exceeds the sum of its parts when it comes to cloud visibility. 

• Observer APEX: The centerpiece of the Observer platform enhances cloud visibility with customizable dashboards and flexible deployment options that support problem identification and root cause analysis based on all available data sources. APEX is the industry’s first performance monitoring solution to generate an EUE score for every client/server transaction.
• Observer GigaStor: The industry-leading packet capture, analysis, and storage solution is available as a virtual appliance for the AWS environment. Full packet capture and metadata-only options provide alternatives based on storage and cost constraints.  
• Observer GigaFlow: The enriched flow records generated by GigaFlow integrate network, infrastructure and user data into a single record. The ingestion of VPC or NSG flow logs promotes in-depth application and traffic information and analysis options for cloud environments.  

Cloud Visibility With VIAVI

VIAVI has advanced network performance monitoring technologies for more than three decades. The seamless addition of cloud-based data sources is simply the latest chapter in our story. A focus on end-user experiences scoring to determine problem domain, severity, impact, and root cause with pinpoint accuracy continues to be our hallmark. 
Throughout the journey, the VIAVI approach to cloud visibility has been underpinned by three-dimensional network monitoring that simultaneously optimizes:

• Location of monitoring components: Flexibility and portability are the keys to meeting the unique challenges of data center, private cloud, hybrid, and public cloud configurations.
• Scope of deployment: The scope, footprint, and cost of each solution is also customizable with scalable test products provided through perpetual or subscription-based pricing models.
• Diversity of data sources: The insights provided through GigaFlow and GigaStor are both cumulative and complimentary. Flexibility and customization to suit each environment is key.