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As we enter the era of intelligent networking infrastructure, with plain old load balancers being replaced by application traffic controllers, the network and application layers are becoming increasingly intermingled.

Along with new, sophisticated networking equipment comes a host of complex settings and tuning parameters. Correctly calibrating these settings plays a very important role in optimizing the performance of your applications. Conversely, incorrect settings can have devastating effects and actually decelerate performance. When it comes to tuning, there is no one-size-fits-all recommendation, as the optimal setting is highly dependent on your specific network topology and application mix.

The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system centralizes all key TCP tuning metrics in a single view and shines a spotlight on the most critical tuning parameters.  Based on your application environment and load conditions, these metrics paint a complete picture, tailor-made for your unique application mix, of how best to tune your environment.

The innovative solution from ExtraHop helps to open up the network 'black box' and provide valuable performance metrics and rapid diagnostics for the entire IT organization, as well as enable optimized tuning of their network and application infrastructures. The operational savings this technology enables are tremendous.

- Erik Giesa, VP of Product Management and Product Marketing , F5 Networks

To enable your team to make the best tuning decisions, ExtraHop also provides online Help that details the meanings of these often-obscure TCP metrics and provides guidance in how best to tune key settings.  With ExtraHop, every network engineer has the right visibility and know-how to become a TCP-tuning expert for all your intelligent networking devices.

ExtraHop provides one of the most sophisticated sets of TCP metrics in a single place, along with tuning guidelines. We can help you with:

  • TCP stalls – Finding TCP stalls caused by applications being overloaded
  • Firewall-related issues – Finding problems with firewalls, proxies and other intermediary devices that change characteristics of the TCP stack
  • Application sending behaviorTuning application sending behavior to not overload the network
  • Network congestion – Finding network congestions proactively, before it impacts the application
  • Nagle Delays  – Understanding the effects of nagling on your application and network performance