In my previous post, we saw how it’s possible to build a simple Grafana Data Source Plugin, which we can use to read data from whatever source we’d like to use. In particular, we used it to read data from a simple web service we created so we could expose data containing some outliers. In…
Read MoreToday I’d like to tell you about the possibility of alerting when anomalies in network traffic are encountered. I use ntopng to generate, evaluate and forward these alerts. If you don’t know about ntopng, let me briefly describe for you what it does. According to its creator, ntopng is a High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and…
Read MoreIn this article, I’d like to step through the development of a simple Proof of Concept (POC) Grafana data source with you where we retrieve data from an API, apply an outlier detection technique, and then visualize the end results in a dashboard. So… let’s begin! Note: All the code discussed in this blog post…
Read MoreTalking about IT security is now clearly synonymous with resilience! We are continuously and inevitably under attack… every organization must implement defensive principles and practices that avoid the worst damage and the least impact on its survival and development. From the data selection, to its collection and normalization, for its representation and analysis with techniques…
Read MoreWe often hear about predictive monitoring, alongside the words machine learning and anomaly detection. Today, just as in the past, the “data” is invaluable and what we will try to do here is use simple data we can easily collect (data which individually might have no value) and apply Machine Learning techniques in order to identify anomalies, and then…
Read MoreOn June 13, we announced a new OEM Partnership with Elastic, and Elastic updated its relationship with OEM, MSP and CSP partners, with the result that in NetEye 4 we now have some new features. Starting with NetEye 4.6, you can now activate the X-Pack feature. After I activate X-Pack and open NetEye, I see:…
Read MoreFrom this November 5th to 8th, more than 250 system engineers, developers, network engineers and IT managers met in Nuremberg, Germany to discuss the latest approaches to monitoring and observability. The four-day event comprised 3 tracks of expert presentations on November 6th and 7th, technical workshops on the 5th, and a full-day hackathon directly following…
Read MoreThe main objective for IT today is to guarantee high performance services and business continuity. To achieve these goals, you need to combine at least three fundamental aspects: the right analytical capacity to measure each relevant metric both at the application and at the infrastructural level; timely notifications to intervene quickly and preemptively; and finally,…
Read MoreNetEye 3.13 Release Notes Welcome to the latest version of our NetEye Unified Monitoring Solution that introduces methods to automate business process creation, scheduling of asset import via CSV, load balancing best practices, and improved Grafana dashboards. Product: NetEye Release Number: 3.13 Release Date: April 30, 2018 Release Type: Minor Previous Release: 3.12 System Requirements: NetEye 3.12 installation or…
Read MoreOn the 18th April in Munich the second edition of our German NetEye & EriZone User Group took place at the Microsoft HQ in Munich. The yearly customer event also in its German edition proved to be an important sharing platform for the definition of our solutions’ new evolution phase. What resulted from the presentations and dedicated…
Read MoreEver since Version 3.8, Grafana and InfluxDB have been integrated into NetEye. This step was undertaken for many reasons. First of all, we wanted to give several metrics a nicer look; second, we wanted to make it possible for our customers to play around with their data, so they could start from predefined templates without…
Read MoreData collection is one of the key steps when you want to analyze the current state of your network, system or application in terms of performance. Data visualization is another: even the most sophisticated data collection cannot help you solve problems if it is visualized poorly. Nowadays a single visualization is often not enough since…
Read MoreNetEye & EriZone User Group Sfide e opportunità per l’IT Management 4.0 Connectbay, Mantova, Giovedì 19 ottobre 11:00 – 17:00 Siamo lieti di invitarvi il 19 ottobre al NetEye & EriZone User Group. L’evento vi offrirà un’occasione unica per scoprire le ultime novità nell’IT System & Service Management, individuare i requisiti necessari per adeguarsi al…
Read MoreNetEye & EriZone User Group Challenges and opportunities in the IT Management 4.0 Connectbay, Mantova, October 19, 11:00 – 17:00 We are glad to invite you to attend the NetEye & EriZone User Group. The yearly event for our customers will offer you the possibility to discover the innovations in the IT Service Management field, to…
Read MoreMachine learning and anomaly detection are being mentioned with increasing frequency in performance monitoring. But what are they and why is interest in them rising so quickly? From Statistics to Machine Learning There have been several attempts to explicitly differentiate between machine learning and statistics. It is not so easy to draw a line between…
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