A New Approach to Continuous Monitoring in the Cloud
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The document discusses Netscout's approach to continuous monitoring in cloud environments and emphasizes the importance of visibility and performance during cloud migration. It highlights the challenges of fragmented visibility and the need for smart data to ensure secure and optimal user experiences across hybrid infrastructures. Netscout offers solutions for proactive monitoring to manage application performance, security, and operational workflows effectively.
A New Approach to Continuous Monitoring in the Cloud
- 1. #CLUS Ray Krug, Solutions Architect, NETSCOUT Session ID Migrate your workloads to the Cloud with confidence A New Approach to Continuous Monitoring in the Cloud
- 2. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 2 Agenda • Business Agility and Digital Transformation • A New Approach to Continuous Monitoring in the Cloud • Migration Use Cases
- 3. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 3 Who Are NETSCOUT? Proven, Highly Scalable Technology 90% Fortune-500 and 95% Tier-1 CSPs Unmatched Visibility Across Large Enterprise + CSP’s Monitoring over one-third of Internet and Enterprise traffic. Market Leader in Service Assurance Communication Service Provider, Enterprise, Security ~$1B Revenue, ~3000 Employees – 35% in R&D
- 4. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 4 Business Agility Digital Transformation means Data Center Transformation Question: “Where’s your Data Center?” CIO - Answer: “My data center? It’s everywhere and anywhere I need to place compute, network and storage capacity to enable my business”
- 5. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 5 Digital Transformation Changes EVERYTHING ▪ PaaS and IaaS for new and refactored applications ▪ Edge cloud is impacting both the Enterprise and Carrier worlds ▪ SaaS for office automation ▪ Data Center Transformation ▪ Legacy, Private & Public Cloud ▪ Assets are more widely distributed ▪ Visibility is fragmented and often very low fidelity ▪ Refactored applications add multiple layers and dependencies ▪ DevOps organizations often used specialized tools for each application The lack of visibility and control increases the risk of service failures and successful cyber attacks Multi-Cloud Is Everywhere Applications are more complicated and interconnected Businesses must blend cloud and legacy technologies
- 6. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 6 Visibility Without Borders Minimize risk and accelerate customer migration to the Cloud Question: “Where’s your Performance and Security Visibility to keep your business applications running?” Answer: “It needs to be everywhere and anywhere I need to place compute, network and storage capacity to enable my business” SOLUTION: Smart Data from NETSCOUT
- 7. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 7 Software Centric Designed for both Physical (ISNG) and Virtual Environments (vSTREAM) 1 2 Common Situational Awareness Consistent Views for DevSecOps and for UC&C Open API & Data Formats Kafka, REST, JSON, AVRO, CSV Cloud Visibility VMware, Cisco ACI, N/S/E/W Visibility, AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle CI etc.. 4 What is Smart Data? Smart Visibility into Network, Applications, UC&C, Dependencies, and Security Deep Packet Inspection Network and Application Performance, Security KPIs, and UC&C KPIs Wire Data 3 Smart Data allows us to ensure a secure and excellent user experience
- 8. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 8 In Multi-Cloud Environments vSTREAM – Generating Smart Data Agent Hypervisor / vSwitch Operating System Infrastructure APP GuestOS AMI / VM Virtual Machine (VM) Operating System Hypervisor / vSwitch Infrastructure VM AMI / VM VM VM NSX Service Virtual Machine Operating System Hypervisor / vSwitch Infrastructure VM NSX VM VM Container Operating System Docker Engine Infrastructure APP APP APP Bins/Libs Bins/Libs Bins/Libs Bins/Libs
- 9. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 9 Smart Data : High Fidelity Metrics • Rich Meta-Data – KPI, Session, Packet • Advanced Metrics – Application Response Time – Application Success, Failure, Errors – Network Response Time – Per protocol, per Message Type • (i.e. URL, GET, PUT, SELECT) – Voice and Video QoE Metrics • Security Metrics – Threat Indicators
- 10. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 10 Proactive Top-Down Approach – Service Triage nGeniusONE Service Dashboard Gain visibility into critical service issues Performance Analysis Launch service monitors to verify and correlate service Impact Session Analysis Perform granular user session tracing and analysis Deep-Dive Packet Analysis Deep-dive investigation of service delivery issues Services KPI/Flows Sessions Packets
- 11. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 11 Smart Data provides proactive monitoring AND allows for streamline workflows 10Gbps for 5 minute trace ~ 600 million packets Taking L3 guys / architects off their day job to wade through packets is expensive and time consuming. Manual Packet Capture vs Just 3 clicks Smart Data And is no Longer Viable!
- 12. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 12 Using Smart Data DashboardGridReportingService MonitorDependency MapTraffic DiscoveryMachine LearningAlertingPacket ForensicsLink MonitorThreat AnalysisHost Analysis
- 13. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 13 Migrate your workloads to the Cloud with confidence Use Cases • Before Migration • Choose workloads to migrate • During Migration • Assure performance • After Migration • Optimize performance as you elastically scale • Monitor vulnerabilities and security threats
- 14. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 14 Deployment in the Hybrid Cloud VPN Gateway VPN Gateway Web-App- Database Oracle E-Business Suite Active Directory DNS Web App DB-Corp App nGeniusONE Global Manager App ACI AWS cloud instance Singapore Region nGeniusONE Local Server instance London Region nGeniusONE Local Server
- 15. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 15 Visibility without Borders AWS (London Region) AWS (Singapore Region) Data Center
- 16. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 16 Performance Monitoring – Hybrid Cloud Service Triage – Cloud to App to Layer Application Errors in Singapore Region Services KPI/Flows Sessions Packets Application Errors in Web Layer
- 17. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 17 Service Triage - Application Performance Singapore Web ec2 Instance Errors on increased Load Services KPI/Flows Sessions Packets
- 18. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 18 Packet Forensics Services KPI/Flows Sessions Packets Detailed Packet Analysis
- 19. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 19 VPN Gateway VPN Gateway Web-App- Database Oracle E-Business Suite Active Directory DNS Web App DB-Corp App nGeniusONE Global Manager App ACI AWS cloud instance Singapore Region nGeniusONE Local Server instance London Region nGeniusONE Local Server Grow in the Cloud – Pervasive Visibility AWS cloud instance Singapore Region nGeniusONE Local Server Classic Load Balancer Auto Scaling
- 20. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 20 Performance Improves as Service Scales up Services KPI/Flows Sessions Packets 2 x Servers Latency Dropping (75ms) Performance is Improving 8 x Servers Latency now at 40ms Below Threshold 1 x Server High Latency 140ms well above threshold
- 21. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 21 NETSCOUT Smart Data Smart Data derived from packets is the single source of truth There are many applications and many deployment options NETSCOUT technology to converts packets into Smart Data Smart Data solutions can be deployed anywhere Smart Data is used for Network, Application and Security Use Cases • The one constant is the communications between components and almost all traffic in today’s world is TCP/IP • NETSCOUT software-first solution makes what had been expensive and difficult into affordable and actionable information • Public or private cloud, modern or legacy infrastructure • NETSCOUT Smart Data is the single source of truth that makes a single pain of glass a reality • Single source of data for cost effective instrumentation • Provides Common DevSecOps Situational Awareness • Ensure a secure and excellent user experience
- 22. COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 22 CIO Question: “How can I seamlessly expand my Data Center to the Cloud and provide consistent visibility of Application and Security Performance across the hybrid environment?” Business Agility SOLUTION: Visibility Without Borders Digital Transformation means Data Center Transformation
- 23. Thank you #CLUS
- 24. #CLUS