Network Device Monitoring Product Brief

Learn how to monitor your entire network and reduce tool sprawl by providing a single source of network equipment and flow observability.

Datadog Network Device Monitoring provides observability for on-prem and cloud network devices and traffic. Device support includes switches, routers, load-balancers, firewalls. Traffic monitoring from the perspective of Network Equipment provides visibility into application-layer performance and the health of bare-metal appliances.

In this product brief, you’ll learn how to use Datadog Network Device Monitoring supports:

• Routers, switches, firewalls, & load balancers
• Equipment generated alerts: SNMP Traps
• Equipment metrics monitoring: SNMP
• Equipment flow monitoring: Netflow, sFlow, IPFIX, jflow
• Multiple alert types including threshold, change, & anomaly detection

Related Datadog platform capabilities:

• Multiple synthetics tests including UDP, TCP, ICMP, gRPC, & DNS
• Network performance monitoring for hosts, VMs, containers and serverless
• 800+ integrations including trouble ticketing, Slack, & Teams
• Log search, filter, analysis including syslog
• DNS monitoring