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VIAVI Observer

Network Performance Monitoring

and Diagnostics

The Observer Advantage

VIAVI Observer® is a comprehensive network performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPMD) solution

developed to ensure peak IT service delivery both on-premises and within a cloud or hybrid IT environment.

It also strengthens IT security with advanced intelligence and active defense capabilities like threat hunting.

Using multiple data sources including wire data and enriched flow, Observer provides situational awareness

with simple, clear dashboards and the industry’s first End-User Experience Score. Enriched flow records

provide details on traffic and supporting infrastructure in the context of user specific information. Observer is

the first NPMD solution to combine these two powerful sources of data to aid NetOps and SecOps teams.

Solve Performance Problems and Strengthen IT Security Initiatives

Introducing Observer v18

Now, with the release of Observer v18, packet and enriched flow data now coexist in the Observer Apex. This

means all levels of expertise access to various tiers of IT visibility, using their preferred data sources for QoS

measurements, baselining, capacity planning, and more. This single, integrated interface improves operational

efficiencies through boosted data quality, intuitive visualizations, and simplified workflows for any level of IT user.

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Apex

Centrally Manage End-User Experience,

Performance and Security

Observer Apex offers comprehensive real-time

visibility into critical IT resources, whether in the data

center core, network edge, or cloud. It provides a

centralized point to troubleshoot performance issues

with advanced End-User Experience Scoring and out-of-

box workflows. For network security, Apex strengthens

defenses aiding investigations of incidents of concern

(IOC) or confirmed security breaches while providing

in-depth post-event forensics. It also offers profiling

of each device and host so IT teams can quickly assess

what is communicating on the network and what

they are saying while also enabling active defense

threat hunting.

Features and Benefits

y User-defined dashboards enable integrated,

enterprise-wide situational awareness into service

delivery health and security posture

y Threat maps offer real-time insight into current

security attack vectors with integrated workflows

y End-User Experience Scoring, with domain level root

cause detail, accelerates service troubleshooting at the

individual transaction or site level

y On-demand application dependency mapping delivers

comprehensive multi-tier application understanding

y Intelligent analysis and long-term retention of high-

fidelity data facilitates forensic investigations 

y Industry first synthesis of user, device, host, and

infrastructure information into a single record

linked to wire data enables advanced profiling and

empowers threat hunting

GigaStor Reduces Troubleshooting Time Through Simplified

Time-based Navigation to Anomalous Traffic

Apex Site-based Dashboards and End-User Experience Scoring Delivers

Exceptional Performance Visibility

GigaStor

Capture Critical IT Service Events

The undisputed leader in back-in-time analysis,

Observer GigaStor™ eliminates the time-consuming

task of recreating problems for troubleshooting. Go

back in time to review past network activity. Navigate

to the exact moment of any service anomaly to see

detailed, packet-level views before, during, and after the

occurrence. GigaStor packet-based analytics offer robust

data intelligence for regulatory compliance, security

forensics, and network troubleshooting. GigaStor is

available in rack-based and portable form factors or as

software for cloud and hybrid IT applications.

Features and Benefits

y Independently validated line-rate performance

capture to  Gbps with support for  Gbps

networks for quick service anomaly resolution and

security investigations

y Back-in-time functionality eliminates waiting for an

intermittent issue to repeat before resolution

y Scalability to more than a petabyte of capacity

enables extended visibility into past service delivery

health; AES- data-at-rest encryption ensures

regulatory data privacy compliance

y Expert analytics offers detailed network and

application insight including deep-packet inspection

for in-depth transaction-level awareness into service

and potential security issues

y Fault-tolerant custom design supports five years

of uninterrupted,  percent duty-cycle capture

without dropping a single packet