# Benefits of using NetFlow Analyzer| Features Overview| Product Brief ## Product Brief NetFlow Analyzer Product Brief - The Business Value of NetFlow Analyzer ## Product Overview ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer provides insight into the most complex network traffic patterns of all types through simple yet highly informative reports that help the IT Administrator get a complete perspective of the enterprise network. ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer is not just a dashboarding and reporting tool but a flow-based analytical solution for network professionals to proactively predict and prevent performance issues in the network. NetFlow Analyzer helps the IT Administrator keep a tab on different dimensions of the network ranging from QoS, SLA, WAAS effectiveness, rich-media traffic, and more. ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer aligns itself seamlessly with different flow types such as NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, IPFIX, AppFlow, and NetStream. It is also built to suit a wide range of industry standards such as IP SLA for service level agreements for voice, WAN, and video operations, and class-based quality of service. Apart from these reports, the Capacity Planning reports help in making well-informed capacity planning decisions. This has a major impact on future investments in network infrastructure. The "Billing" module is a tool that can verify if the service provider is fairly charging the consumer. ## Our Approach ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer collects data with the help of your existing infrastructure since it supports a wide range of flow-enabled switches and routers. This ensures that customers do not incur any additional infrastructure and hardware investments that are unavoidable in the case of a hardware-based tool. A majority of devices (routers and switches) support flow formats, and we leverage flow data, converting it into meaningful information that helps IT Administrators get the best performance out of their networks. ## Features ### Dashboard view - Customize and create your own dashboard by dragging and dropping widgets with no additional effort - Choose from a wide set of 50 widgets such as top devices, interfaces, IP groups based on ### Traffic Analytics Report - Generate highly granular and accurate real-time traffic reports instantly and troubleshoot by zooming spikes through selectable graphs - Monitor IN and OUT traffic on the basis of speed, volume, packets, and utilization ### Alerts - Set up and manage threshold-based alerts on your network - Set up email alerts to stay afoot in case of emergencies proactively ### QoS Validation - Monitor your QoS through CBQoS reports to ensure maximum priority to your business-related applications over other bandwidth-intensive yet unproductive applications - Monitor pre and post policy traffic drops across different classes of traffic and queues ### SLA Validation - Assure best-in-class service levels for your VoIP, WAN, and video traffic with the help of IP SLA reports - Assure best-in-class service levels for your VoIP, WAN, and video traffic with the help of IP SLA reports - Monitor important factors such as latency, packet loss, Mean Opinion Score (MOS), and jitter which determine the performance of your services ### Rich-media Traffic Monitoring - Optimize and monitor your network for rich-media traffic - Leverage the power of Medianet and Mediatrace reports to monitor system and performance metrics ### Security Analytics Reporting - Monitor security levels in your network in real-time using the network behavior analysis module - Detect zero-day attacks, DDoS attacks, scans, probes, and many such security vulnerabilities before they could impact and impair your network ### Capacity Planning and Billing - Prepare for the future based on Capacity Planning reports to make accurate decisions on handling future bandwidth requirements - Billing module is exclusively tailored for fair billing of bandwidth for both Service Providers and consumers to verify their bandwidth bill ### About NetFlow Analyzer ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer is designed to provide a 360 degree view of your enterprise network comprising network traffic and security snapshot, SLA levels, QoS policies, WAAS effectiveness, VoIP, and video traffic, thus making it a complete and comprehensive network bandwidth monitoring solution. The benefits that your organization reaps are many, such as: 1. Better investment decisions 2. Managing and minimizing bandwidth costs 3. Network optimized for critical applications 4. Proactive detection and prevention of network incidents 5. Better capacity planning decisions 6. Ensuring minimum downtime and continuous availability 7. Better QoS and SLA management 8. Reinforced network security 9. Network fine tuned for optimum performance ### The ManageEngine Advantage We have been in the network management space for over a decade helping make enterprise networks better. Our footprint in the IT network management space is over a decade old, and these years of valuable industry experience have helped us understand exactly the IT requirements of a modern-day enterprise. Our long association with professionals at different levels across a wide segment of industries around the world has helped us gain first-hand insight into the day-to-day IT challenges they face and how we can help provide solutions. We firmly believe that customers do not buy products, but solutions to their problems. With that approach, we tailor our products to suit the environment of the end-user and are known for our rich feature set at almost a fraction of the price offered by other vendors. We place the utmost importance on user experience and strive to make the IT Administrator's job easier by making our products as user-friendly as possible. Our consistent and regular product releases provide customers with newer versions to accommodate the ever-changing needs of business and IT networks. We offer world-class after-sales support and provide free editions for all our major products.