A New Approach to Continuous Monitoring in the Cloud

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Ray Krug, Solutions Architect, NETSCOUT
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Migrate your workloads to the Cloud with confidence
A New Approach to
Continuous Monitoring
in the Cloud

COPYRIGHT © 2019 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. 2
Agenda
• Business Agility and Digital Transformation
• A New Approach to Continuous Monitoring in the Cloud
• Migration Use Cases

Who Are NETSCOUT?
Proven, Highly Scalable Technology
90% Fortune-500 and 95% Tier-1 CSPs
Unmatched Visibility Across Large Enterprise + CSP’s
Monitoring over one-third of Internet and Enterprise traffic.
Market Leader in Service Assurance
Communication Service Provider, Enterprise, Security
~$1B Revenue, ~3000 Employees – 35% in R&D

Business Agility
Digital Transformation means Data Center Transformation
Question:
“Where’s your Data Center?”
CIO - Answer:
“My data center? It’s everywhere
and anywhere I need to place
compute, network and storage
capacity to enable my business”

Digital Transformation
Changes EVERYTHING
▪ PaaS and IaaS for new and
refactored applications
▪ Edge cloud is impacting both
the Enterprise and Carrier
worlds
▪ SaaS for office automation
▪ Data Center Transformation
▪ Legacy, Private & Public Cloud
▪ Assets are more widely distributed
▪ Visibility is fragmented and often
very low fidelity
▪ Refactored applications add
multiple layers and
dependencies
▪ DevOps organizations often
used specialized tools for
each application
The lack of visibility and control increases the risk of service failures and
successful cyber attacks
Multi-Cloud
Is Everywhere
Applications are more
complicated and
interconnected
Businesses must blend
cloud and legacy
technologies

Visibility Without Borders
Minimize risk and accelerate customer migration to the Cloud
Question:
“Where’s your Performance and
Security Visibility to keep your
business applications running?”
Answer:
“It needs to be everywhere and
anywhere I need to place compute,
network and storage capacity to
enable my business”
SOLUTION: Smart Data from NETSCOUT

Software Centric
Designed for both Physical (ISNG) and Virtual Environments (vSTREAM)
1
2
Common Situational Awareness
Consistent Views for DevSecOps and for UC&C
Open API & Data Formats
Kafka, REST, JSON, AVRO, CSV
Cloud Visibility
VMware, Cisco ACI, N/S/E/W Visibility, AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle CI
etc..
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What is Smart Data?
Smart Visibility into Network, Applications, UC&C, Dependencies, and Security
Deep Packet Inspection
Network and Application
Performance,
Security KPIs,
and UC&C KPIs
Wire
Data
3
Smart Data allows us to ensure a secure and excellent user experience

In Multi-Cloud Environments
vSTREAM – Generating Smart Data
Agent
Hypervisor / vSwitch
Operating System
Infrastructure
APP
GuestOS
AMI / VM
Virtual Machine (VM)
Operating System
Infrastructure
VM
AMI / VM
VM VM
NSX Service
Virtual Machine
Operating System
Infrastructure
VM
NSX
VM VM
Container
Operating System
Docker Engine
Infrastructure
APP APP APP
Bins/Libs Bins/Libs Bins/Libs Bins/Libs

Smart Data : High Fidelity Metrics
• Rich Meta-Data
– KPI, Session, Packet
• Advanced Metrics
– Application Response Time
– Application Success, Failure, Errors
– Network Response Time
– Per protocol, per Message Type
• (i.e. URL, GET, PUT, SELECT)
– Voice and Video QoE Metrics
• Security Metrics
– Threat Indicators

Proactive Top-Down Approach – Service Triage
nGeniusONE
Service Dashboard
Gain visibility into critical service issues
Performance Analysis
Launch service monitors to verify and
correlate service Impact
Session Analysis
Perform granular user session tracing and
analysis
Deep-Dive Packet Analysis
Deep-dive investigation of service delivery
issues
Services
KPI/Flows
Sessions
Packets

Smart Data provides proactive monitoring
AND allows for streamline workflows
10Gbps for 5 minute trace
~ 600 million packets
Taking L3 guys / architects off their day
job to wade through packets is
expensive and time consuming.
Manual Packet Capture vs
Just 3 clicks
Smart Data
And is no Longer Viable!

Using Smart Data
DashboardGridReportingService MonitorDependency MapTraffic DiscoveryMachine LearningAlertingPacket ForensicsLink MonitorThreat AnalysisHost Analysis

Migrate your workloads to the Cloud with confidence
Use Cases
• Before Migration
• Choose workloads to migrate
• During Migration
• Assure performance
• After Migration
• Optimize performance as you elastically scale
• Monitor vulnerabilities and security threats

Deployment in the Hybrid Cloud
VPN
Gateway
VPN
Gateway
Web-App-
Database Oracle
E-Business Suite
Active
Directory
DNS
Web App
DB-Corp
App
nGeniusONE
Global Manager
App
ACI
AWS cloud
instance
Singapore Region
nGeniusONE
Local Server
instance
London Region
nGeniusONE
Local Server

Visibility without Borders
AWS
(London
Region)
AWS
(Singapore
Region)
Data
Center

Performance Monitoring – Hybrid Cloud
Service Triage – Cloud to App to Layer
Application
Errors in
Singapore
Region
Services
KPI/Flows
Sessions
Packets
Application
Errors in
Web Layer

Service Triage - Application Performance
Singapore
Web ec2
Instance
Errors on
increased
Load
Services
KPI/Flows
Sessions
Packets

Packet Forensics
Services
KPI/Flows
Sessions
Packets
Detailed
Packet
Analysis

VPN
Gateway
VPN
Gateway
Web-App-
Database Oracle
E-Business Suite
Active
Directory
DNS
Web App
DB-Corp
App
nGeniusONE
Global Manager
App
ACI
AWS cloud
instance
Singapore Region
nGeniusONE
Local Server
instance
London Region
nGeniusONE
Local Server
Grow in the Cloud – Pervasive Visibility
AWS cloud
instance
Singapore Region
nGeniusONE
Local Server
Classic
Load
Balancer
Auto
Scaling

Performance Improves as Service Scales up
Services
KPI/Flows
Sessions
Packets
2 x Servers
Latency Dropping (75ms)
Performance is Improving
8 x Servers
Latency now at 40ms
Below Threshold
1 x Server
High Latency 140ms
well above threshold

NETSCOUT Smart Data
Smart Data derived from packets is the single source of truth
There are many applications and
many deployment options
NETSCOUT technology to converts
packets into Smart Data
Smart Data solutions can be
deployed anywhere
Smart Data is used for Network,
Application and Security Use Cases
• The one constant is the communications between
components and almost all traffic in today’s world is TCP/IP
• NETSCOUT software-first solution makes what had been
expensive and difficult into affordable and actionable information
• Public or private cloud, modern or legacy infrastructure
• NETSCOUT Smart Data is the single source of truth that
makes a single pain of glass a reality
• Single source of data for cost effective instrumentation
• Provides Common DevSecOps Situational Awareness
• Ensure a secure and excellent user experience

CIO Question:
“How can I seamlessly expand
my Data Center to the Cloud and
provide consistent visibility of
Application and Security
Performance across the hybrid
environment?”
Business Agility
SOLUTION: Visibility Without Borders
Digital Transformation means Data Center Transformation

A New Approach to Continuous Monitoring in the Cloud

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