Network monitoring

How it is used

Used for both the activity and the tools. Engineers set up network monitoring, add devices to it, set thresholds and respond to alerts. Good monitoring means the NOC notices an outage before the customers call.

Example sentences

1. Network monitoring flagged high CPU on the core router twenty minutes before the outage.

2. Every new device has to be added to network monitoring before it goes live.

Common collocations

• network monitoring tool
• monitoring dashboard
• set up monitoring
• monitoring alert
• proactive monitoring

Related terms

• SNMPShort for Simple Network Management Protocol: a protocol that lets monitoring systems collect information such as traffic, errors and temperature from network devices, and lets devices send alerts.
• NOCShort for network operations centre: the team and room, often staffed 24/7, that monitors a network, responds to alarms and coordinates the repair of faults and outages.
• outageA period when a service, system or part of it is not working or cannot be reached by users.
• packet captureA recording of the actual packets passing through a network interface, saved to a file so that engineers can analyse exactly what was sent and received.
• latencyThe time a request or piece of data takes to travel through a system and get a response, usually measured in milliseconds.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• network monitoring · Networking & Telecommunications

More terms: APIs, Networking and Security

• API
• endpoint
• REST
• JSON
• status code
• payload
• authentication
• third-party
• SDK
• breaking change
• request
• response