Network Monitoring
Identify root causes faster with native network-layer correlation. Unify NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, VPC Flow Logs, and SNMP with the rest of your stack's metrics, logs, and traces.
Why Use OpenObserve for Network Monitoring
One Platform, No Silos
Flow data, device metrics, and app telemetry sit in the same backend you already query.
Open Ingestion
Send data over the OpenTelemetry Collector or a plain HTTP API. No proprietary agents.
Your Data, Your Bucket
Run fully managed, or bring your own object storage. Either way, cost stays predictable as traffic grows.
OpenObserve’s Key Network Monitoring Capabilities
Flow Level Traffic Analysis
NetFlow, IPFIX, and sFlow Ingestion
Routers and switches already export flow records. OpenObserve collects them through goflow2 and turns fields like source IP, destination port, bytes, and protocol into searchable data within seconds. No dedicated NetFlow appliance required.
Find Top Talkers Fast
Ask a direct question like "which source IPs are using the most bandwidth?" and get an answer in one query. Filter by destination port to isolate a single misbehaving service. Root cause in seconds, not a ticket queue.
Cloud and VPC Flow Visibility
AWS VPC Flow Logs in Minutes
Connect your AWS VPC Flow Logs to OpenObserve through Amazon Data Firehose. Accepted and rejected traffic across your cloud network flows in automatically, with no custom code to write or maintain. You see exactly which rule is dropping packets.
Enrich Flows as They Arrive
OpenObserve pipelines add geographic location and hostname context to raw IP addresses the moment data is ingested. A bare IP becomes a country and a recognizable name. Investigations start with context, not guesswork.
Device and Interface Monitoring
SNMP Without a Separate Tool
The OpenTelemetry Collector polls your routers, switches, and firewalls over SNMP and reports interface throughput, status, and errors as metrics. It supports SNMP v1, v2c, and v3. No standalone SNMP poller to license or run.
Catch Problems Before Users Do
Track interface errors to spot a failing link early, or watch interface status to confirm a change landed. Because device metrics and flow data share one platform, you can line up an interface error with the traffic drop it caused in the same view.
Topology, Alerts, and Incidents
Build Network Topology Dashboards
OpenObserve custom charts render node and link graphs from your flow data, so you can map how traffic actually moves between hosts. You build the view your network needs instead of accepting a fixed layout.
From Alert to Incident, Automatically
Set an alert on a traffic spike, a surge in rejected connections, or an interface going down. When it triggers, OpenObserve opens an incident directly, so the on call team is paged before a small issue becomes an outage. Detection and response stay in one place.
Network Monitoring FAQs
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