The Network Business Focus
2025 guide to network-monitoring software
Predict and fix failures before they happen, and keep your business working smoothly, with the best network-monitoring software around. Dave Mitchell puts four products to the test
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n today’s digital world network downtime is bad news for businesses, and a prolonged outage could be catastrophic. The immediate effect is loss of productivity and revenue, but it can have far-reaching consequences if dissatisfied customers take their business elsewhere.
An essential IT support role is monitoring network, system and application health and providing a rapid response to ensure problems or faults don’t impact on productivity. Network-monitoring software is the ideal solution as it can tell you precisely what’s on your network, how it’s performing and alert you to issues the moment they happen.
Monitoring software can help predict system failures and network issues by providing an early warning system that highlights poor service response times, an overloaded application server or one that’s running out of storage capacity. This gives support staff crucial time to identify and fix a problem before it becomes a disaster.