In today’s digital economy, performance and application issues can create significant obstacles to business growth and profitability, resulting in negative impacts on the quality of users’ experience. This has become even more critical in the age of cloud-based, distributed computing in which performance or security issues might arise in a variety of trouble spots. Network and application performance monitoring, which is also known as application performance management, is essential for smooth operation. It involves measuring and analyzing the performance of software applications and networks and requires comprehensive traffic insights in real time.

The key to supporting the user journey and ensuring a flawless digital experience is a real-time understanding of every (business) transaction enabled by deep packet inspection (DPI). DPI provides application performance monitoring (APM) and network performance monitoring (NPM) tools with real-time network visibility and application awareness across all layers and nodes within a network. It enables the monitoring of network traffic and specific application traffic at the packet level, providing service-type insights that include response time metrics between client and server.

DPI-driven application-aware network performance monitoring (AANPM) even provides visibility into how application traffic and data is flowing across the network. Thus, it reveals how applications and the network impact each other’s performance.

Enterprise administrators can draw on these insights to delineate where issues may arise and determine whether an issue is network-based or application-based. By enhancing your NPM or APM solution with deep packet inspection, you can provide better data, more focused and high-quality insights, and the ability to understand the application, device, and network performance as a cohesive whole. Enable your customers to optimize network and application performance in ways never before possible.