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About RevealX Network Performance Monitoring

What is RevealX Network Performance Monitoring (NPM)?

RevealX NPM is a core module of the RevealX platform. It enables organizations to leverage the network as a central source of truth. Network Performance Monitoring workflows enable you to monitor how services and devices interact with each other and how transactions flow across the data link layer (L2) to the application layer (L7) in your network. The platform harnesses visibility into network data and cloud-native machine learning (ML) for real-time analytics, identifying potential network and application performance issues to expedite incident response time.

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How does RevealX NPM differ from RevealX Network Detection and Response (NDR)?

While both core modules are critical in ensuring business resiliency and security of your network, RevealX NPM is focused on performance, and RevealX NDR is focused on security. NPM actively monitors potential network and application performance issues, whereas NDR proactively detects potential cyber threats in the enterprise.

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What deployment options are available for RevealX NPM?

RevealX NPM is available as both a SaaS-based and on-premises solution. The SaaS-based RevealX 360 provides unified security across on-premises and cloud environments, 360-degree visibility and situational intelligence without friction, and immediate value with a low management burden. RevealX Enterprise is a self-managed solution that provides complete east-west visibility and real-time threat detection inside the perimeter.

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What modules are available for RevealX NPM?

RevealX NPM integrates with the ExtraHop Packet Forensics module to provide full packet capture, storage, and retrieval. This scalable packet capture (PCAP) repository offers cost-effective modular storage, precision packet search in a single workflow, and fast and easy-to-use queries to get answers quickly.

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Can I purchase the Packet Forensics module as a standalone product?

Packet Forensics modules are add-on modules to the RevealX platform’s core NPM module and cannot be purchased as standalone products.

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Network Performance Monitoring Details

How do I deploy RevealX NPM?

RevealX NPM consists of a set of components based on your environmental needs: sensors, packetstores, recordstores, and a console for centralized management and unified data views. All components are available in physical, virtual, and cloud-based options that are sized based on your needs.

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How does RevealX NPM monitor network traffic?

RevealX NPM passively observes unstructured packets through a port mirror or tap and stores the data in a local datastore. The network traffic data goes through real-time stream processing that transforms the packets into structured wire data for analysis.

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Which enterprise protocols does RevealX NPM support?

RevealX NPM supports over 70 enterprise protocols with real-time fluency at the application layer. Protocol modules offer varying levels of analysis, starting with L7 classification, and Application Inspection Triggers to create a custom metric.

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Does RevealX NPM proactively detect performance issues?

Yes. RevealX NPM proactively detects potential network and application performance issues by leveraging cloud-native machine learning (ML). The ML service tracks detections in eight categories across your environment. Within each of these categories, the ML evaluates several protocols and hundreds of metrics, all with custom logic, to find and correlate active problems.

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Can RevealX NPM monitor encrypted network traffic?

Yes. RevealX can decrypt SSL/TLS (including TLS 1.3) network traffic, as well as common Microsoft protocols, such as SMBv3, Kerberos, Active Directory, and MSRPC, offering full visibility for troubleshooting.

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How can I analyze real-time data at an enterprise scale?

RevealX NPM is designed to help enterprises derive meaningful insights from an immense wealth of information through automatically populated role-based dashboards. These dashboards function on a drag-and-drop model so you can customize them further with unique widgets. Along with traditional methods of data visualization like charts and graphs, RevealX NPM uses live activity maps to present a dynamic and intuitive view of your environment.

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Integrations

Can RevealX NPM integrate with my existing IT service management (ITSM) and IT operations (IT Ops) tools?

Yes. RevealX NPM integrates with leading IT service management (ITSM) and IT operations (IT Ops) tools, including Splunk, Microsoft, AWS, and more. For organizations that rely on chat platforms to coordinate workflows, RevealX NPM can send information about detections to Slack or other collaboration platforms through a REST API. RevealX NPM also integrates with ticketing systems such as ServiceNow, automatically creating tickets for analyst triage queues and ingesting ticket information to display beside a detection.


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Can I integrate RevealX NPM with other data stores, querying tools, and analytics platforms in my stack?

While rich query and investigation workflows are available within the RevealX NPM interface, it’s also easy to integrate wire data metrics with the other data stores, querying tools, and analytics platforms in your stack. The RevealX NPM Open Data Stream allows you to merge data from multiple sources into a single, rich set that can be queried and visualized using whatever tools your team prefers, including AppDynamics, Elastic, MongoDB, and more.


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