NetBeez Releases Path Analysis
Stefano Gridelli
CEO at NetBeez | Digital Experience Monitoring for Rapid Root Cause Analysis
NetBeez Releases Path Analysis
I am super excited to announce the release of Path Analysis as part of NetBeez version 8.0. This new functionality will be officially presented during the Path Analysis Webinar that we’ll host next Tuesday, May 18. I encourage you to register and attend the webinar as our fellow co-founder Panos Vouzis will give a live demonstration and share details about it.
Why is this feature important, and why am I so excited about it? Path analysis is a key requirement to monitor the Internet and understand how its performance impacts the overall digital experience of remote users; it helps network engineers and operators to discover the underlying network topology and quickly pinpoint where performance degradation is occurring.
What’s Path Analysis?
I generally introduce path analysis as traceroute on steroids. This feature comes with a graphic user interface that shows all the discovered paths between a source agent and a destination host or service. Like in traceroute, the user can review hop by hop the routers discovered between the two points. The following screenshot shows an example of a network topology discovered by path analysis between a NetBeez network monitoring agent and an Internet website.
For each hop path analysis provides extensive information that is valuable for network analysis and troubleshooting, such as:
- IP address and reverse DNS (if available)
- Round-trip time (RTT) real-time and historical
- Color coding of the RTT value (orange if above 100 ms. and red if above 150 ms.)
- Autonomous System Number (ASN), and AS Name
- Geo-IP location with coordinates
The path analysis plot also enables the user to highlight hops based on RTT, IP, DNS, and ASN, making it easier to troubleshoot performance issues with specific nodes.
Path analysis is not just a different, cooler way to display a network topology. Path analysis is very innovative from a tracing capability, overcoming limits of traditional traceroute. Let me explain this a bit more ...
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