Network Instruments

Since its inception in 1994, Network Instruments has striven to provide outstanding network troubleshooting and analysis solutions at competitive prices. From its strong beginnings to its current wide customer base focused on Global 2000 corporations, Network Instruments has maintained a culture of quality and innovation.

All Network Instruments solutions are, and always have been, developed in-house. Centered on the company’s unique, distributed network architecture (NI-DNA™), each product functions as part of a seamlessly integrated holistic management solution.

For over fifteen years, network professionals have turned to Observer®, the first affordable Windows-based analyzer. Network Instruments’ flagship product is more than a protocol analyzer, boasting powerful application analysis, expert analysis, stream reconstruction, and trending.

Network Instruments continues to see consistent, exponential growth, due in large part to its innovative GigaStor™ solution. Storing up to 576 TB of network data for days, weeks, or months, GigaStor allows administrators to rewind, analyze, and troubleshoot any issue.

An exciting addition to the Network Instruments solution set, the new Observer Reporting Server gives users high-level, aggregate, enterprise-wide views, while allowing them to drill to the packet level for further investigation.

With an ever-evolving set of network monitoring and management tools and a history of innovation and stability, it is no wonder Network Instruments continues to grow, delivering network insight to major corporations the world over.

All-in-One Troubleshooting

Observer Suite is your one-stop troubleshooting powerhouse. It contains all the features of Observer Expert, including Expert Analysis, VoIP and video tools, in-depth application analysis, Connection Dynamics, stream reconstruction, and more, plus support for SNMP and RMON device management.

You get all this, plus the ability to generate and share reports via the web, add custom decode modules for use in proprietary environments, and extract data from external sources using SOAP.

Observer Suite reports are fully configurable. Benefit from expanded detail, customizable views, and parse data any way you like. Create single, at-a-glance views for management, or comprehensive reports for complexproblem investigation.

 

• Auto-baseline on all performance and time-based metrics
• Reduce MTTR with solution-centric workflows
• Auto-generate reports to any folder or e-mail box
• Share reports with non-Observer users

 

 

 

GigaStor – Rewind Your Network

Stop missing critical network events. Instead, rewind your network to quickly troubleshoot sporadic performance problems.

The GigaStor network recorder provides massive data collection and unique time-based analysis that eliminate the need to recreate problems, rapidly decreasing resolution time.

Storing up to 576 TB of network data for days, weeks, or months, our network recorder eliminates finger-pointing between network and application teams by providing proof of what occurred. Use GigaStor to navigate to the exact moment a problem happened, and see a detailed packet-level view of before, during, and after the occurrence. Monitor LAN, WAN, Ethernet, Gigabit, 10 Gb, OC, and Fibre Channel networks.

Introducing, Sustained 10 Gb Wire Speed

The latest GigaStor is the first of its kind to provide long-term packet capture that saves to disk at wire speed on a fully saturated, full-duplex 10 Gb network.

• Designed for transaction-heavy enterprises
• Manage the performance of data center applications
• Ensure the success of new technology deployments
• Stores 144 TB

This GigaStor appliance includes two ports for monitoring, and features the Network Instruments’ engineered Gen2 capture card.

See the 10 Gb speed test report by Tolly.