Network Monitoring with InfluxDB

Networks play a fundamental role in the adoption and growth of internet applications. Penetrating enterprises, homes, factories, and even cities, networks sustain modern society. While assuring responsive and performant networks in today’s hybrid, distributed, and containerized application environments occurs behind the scenes in intangible clouds and diagrams abstractions, network glitches are more visible and unforgiving than ever.

This volume of monitoring data can easily become overwhelming. InfluxData’s network monitoring tools centralize, analyze, and automate your data, enabling effective management of your IT infrastructure. Telegraf, our collection agent with 200+ plugins, supports protocols such as ICMP/Ping, SNMP, NetFlow, SFlow, and Syslog. InfluxDB, our database and storage engine purpose-built to handle time series data, contains a powerful query engine for processing multiple data sources in real-time.

In this paper, we discuss how you can use InfluxDB for network performance monitoring to gain the necessary visibility in the status, performance, and responsiveness of all network devices in your enterprise, cloud, or hybrid application environments.