The faster your cloud environment scales, the harder it becomes to see what's actually happening on your network. This pervasive lack of visibility is not a minor inconvenience. Traditional monitoring approaches typically miss 95% of the total network paths that connect users to essential services, leaving IT and network operations teams struggling with critical blind spots. This is where Cloud Network Insights can help.
This offering, developed by Google Cloud and enabled by AppNeta by Broadcom, is designed to help eliminate these blind spots by providing end-to-end network observability across your entire digital ecosystem.
For network and IT operations teams, operating with these massive blind spots translates into real-world operational hurdles:
Persistent Observability Gaps: Many organizations operate with significant lack of visibility into critical network paths across ISPs, transit networks, and cross-cloud connections. Imagine a customer’s apps team facing latency when writing data to storage and struggling to isolate the root cause.
Troubleshooting Headaches and Technical Debt: Pinpointing the source of performance degradation is often difficult. Over time, technical debt silently accumulates as unwatched network tunnels and legacy paths pile up, inevitably resulting in poor end-user experiences.
Complexity of Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments: The distributed nature of microservices and multi-cloud setups creates intricate networks that can be challenging to monitor comprehensively. Customers with critical applications in the cloud with dependencies spanning on-premises and third-party components could leave their networking team scrambling during peak hours to find the source of latency.
High TCO of Existing Monitoring Solutions: Many current monitoring tools drive up Total Cost of Ownership due to high licensing fees and operational complexity, forcing highly distributed organizations to seek alternative solutions that can monitor thousands of remote locations without inflating their budget.
Cloud Network Insights, enabled by AppNeta, directly addresses these challenges by offering a comprehensive and AI-driven approach to network observability. This solution is built on the understanding that delivering a flawless digital experience requires eliminating siloed data and delivering comprehensive end-to-end network observability.
This unified approach empowers cloud teams with:
Unparalleled End-to-End Visibility: You can gain a complete picture of application and network performance across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments. AppNeta provides deep insights into application experience and network paths, while Cloud Network Insights offers strong correlation with Google Cloud native signals.
Accelerated Problem Resolution: The solution significantly reduces the time it takes to detect degradation, investigate whether an issue is application or network-related, and then respond based on actionable insights. This means a substantial reduction in both Mean Time To Innocence (MTTI) and Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR), with some organizations seeing triage accelerated drastically.
Optimized Operations and Predictable TCO: Enhance your Google Cloud migrations by continuously validating network quality and user experience. At the same time, you can eliminate tool sprawl by consolidating active and passive monitoring into a single, unified solution with a predictable subscription model.
AI-Powered Observability: Leveraging Google’s Gemini models, the solution provides intelligent diagnostics and insights, helping you move beyond reactive problem-solving toward proactive insights. This positions you to better support emerging technologies by helping to ensure the foundational network performance is transparent and reliable.
By combining AppNeta’s deep network path visibility with Cloud Network Insights’ rich, Google Cloud-native observability, this collaboration delivers an integrated experience that helps simplify management and enhance overall operational efficiency. It’s about gaining the clarity and control you need to navigate complex network landscapes, shifting your team from reactive troubleshooting to proactive optimization..
To explore how Cloud Network Insights, enabled by AppNeta, can transform your cloud networking, see the announcement blog or the technical documentation.