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The ExtraHop system performs sophisticated network-traffic analysis to ensure that business-critical transactions do not fail. While many tools rely on legacy technologies, such as NetFlow collection, SNMP polling, custom performance agents, or active service checks, the ExtraHop system performs full-stream reassembly and full content analysis to extract and archive valuable performance and health metrics in a real-time datastore.
The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system is a passive network appliance that is easy to deploy. Using a network tap, SPAN port, VACL capture, or other data-access technology, the ExtraHop system is an out-of-line device that analyzes a copy of the production network traffic in real time, extracting the valuable health and performance information. Rather than sample a portion of network traffic, the ExtraHop system processes every packet at wire speed.
While other products only inspect L4 headers, the ExtraHop system performs full-stream reassembly. With this approach, the traffic flows are reconstructed to analyze the payload from L2 to L7. The ExtraHop system is purpose-built for production enterprise environments, supporting real-world traffic patterns such as IP fragments, out-of-order segments, and microbursts. When packet loss occurs on the monitoring link, the ExtraHop system resynchronizes and recovers.
The ExtraHop system includes a self-contained, streaming datastore for recording and retrieving performance and health metrics in real time. This real-time datastore bypasses the OS filesystem and accesses the underlying block devices directly. The ExtraHop system achieves levels of scalability that exceed other products that use conventional relational databases.
ExtraHop helps both network and application teams navigate and pinpoint their most difficult performance issues by harnessing the wealth of data that flows through the network in a simple non-intrusive manner with incredible scale. At its core is a complete application-fluent engine with intuitive diagnostics that turn data into something meaningful and actionable.
- Erik Giesa,
VP of Product Management and
Product Marketing, F5 Networks