Turn Network Telemetry Into Actionable Performance Intelligence
Network performance analytics aggregates telemetry from across your network infrastructure — circuits, devices, wireless, and cloud connectivity — to identify performance trends, predict capacity constraints, and quantify the user experience impact of network conditions.
What RLM Delivers on Network Performance Analytics
Reactive network management — fixing problems after users complain — is expensive and damaging to IT credibility. Performance analytics enables proactive operations: identifying trends before they become incidents, planning capacity before constraints occur, and quantifying the business impact of network performance.
How We Approach Network Performance Analytics
A structured path through the Network Performance Analytics decision — current-state discovery, shortlist and benchmark, commercial negotiation, then support until it is actually working.
Analytics Requirements & Use Cases
We define your network analytics requirements — capacity planning, SLA reporting, application performance correlation, and the specific business questions analytics must answer — and map them to available telemetry sources.
Platform Evaluation
We evaluate network analytics platforms — ThousandEyes, Kentik, Datadog NPM, Cisco Crosswork Network Insights, and others — against your use cases, data source integration requirements, and reporting needs.
Telemetry Collection Architecture
Comprehensive analytics requires telemetry from diverse sources. We design the collection architecture — SNMP, streaming telemetry (gNMI/gRPC), flow data, synthetic monitoring, and cloud metrics — that provides the data foundation for analytics.
Dashboard & Reporting Design
Analytics value is realized through operational dashboards and scheduled reports. We design the dashboard and reporting framework — operational views for NOC teams, capacity trend reports for planning, and SLA reports for management.
Network Performance Analytics Evaluation Criteria
Before committing to any Network Performance Analytics platform, these are the points worth forcing a straight answer on.
Synthetic vs. Passive Monitoring
Passive monitoring measures actual traffic performance; synthetic monitoring tests network paths proactively from specific vantage points. Evaluate both approaches — synthetic monitoring catches performance problems before users generate traffic.
Application Correlation
Network performance metrics are most valuable when correlated with application performance. Evaluate the platform's ability to correlate network conditions with application response time measurements.
Capacity Planning Accuracy
Network capacity planning requires historical trending with seasonal decomposition. Evaluate the accuracy of capacity forecasts against actual growth and the lead time required to provision additional capacity.
SLA Compliance Measurement
Network SLA measurement requires consistent, reproducible measurement methodology. Evaluate the SLA reporting capability and the independence of measurement from carrier-provided data.
Anomaly Detection Quality
Statistical anomaly detection is only valuable when the model accurately represents normal behavior. Evaluate the training period required and the false positive rate in your specific environment.
Executive Reporting
Network performance analytics must translate into business-relevant reporting. Evaluate the available report templates and the ability to create custom executive-level reports that communicate network health in business terms.
"RLM gave us an objective view of our network options that no single vendor could. We replaced aging MPLS across 40 locations and came in 28% under our original budget."
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Where This Matters Most
Sector-specific considerations we see repeatedly in advanced networking engagements.
A Sample of the Advanced Networking Providers We Evaluate
RLM is vendor neutral. These are among 600+ providers in our evaluation set — inclusion here is not an endorsement, and we are paid by the provider you choose, not by any provider in particular. How that works →
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