Network monitoring tools
End-to-end visibility into network traffic helps organizations proactively uncover and solve performance issues and security vulnerabilities such as DDoS attacks. Visualize and analyze network flow data such as protocols, source IPs, destination IPs, ports, and more with network monitoring tools.
The Cloudflare difference
Cloud-based network flow monitoring
Network Flow provides end-to-end network traffic visibility, real-time alerts, and DDoS attack identification from a single, integrated dashboard.
Network analytics
Receive automatic analytics and alerts on network- and transport-layer traffic patterns and DDoS attacks. Visualize packet and bit-level data with Cloudflare Network Analytics.
Network security solutions
Identify new vulnerabilities, confirm that security policies work, and inspect network traffic — all without performance tradeoffs.
Visibility from a single control plane
Manage network access and monitor threats on a unified cloud platform — no layering incompatible tools or configuring expensive hardware appliances.
How It Works
Why network monitoring tools?
Today’s organizations with hybrid workforces have users and apps connected outside of the traditional corporate network. This has resulted in inconsistent security and networking controls, which affect the ability to understand what is happening — and what is at risk.
To help solve these challenges, network monitoring tools provide end-to-end analytics and alerts on network traffic patterns — including traffic flowing through local networks and between cloud environments.
Increasing volumetric DDoS attacks
DDoS attacks are getting larger and more sophisticated. The more complex the attack, the harder it is to separate malicious traffic from normal traffic — and to effectively mitigate those threats.
Gaps in visibility and security enforcement
Organizations connect their users and applications in an indeterminate number of ways. This leads to inconsistent security enforcement and networking controls.
Application and business downtime
Network bandwidth bottlenecks, undetected operating system flaws, and other service failures can disrupt or break applications.
Benefits
Simplified threat mitigation
Detect and receive automatic notifications about attacks, including volumetric DDoS attacks. See exactly what threats are aimed at your network to accelerate time-to-mitigation.
Reduced bandwidth bottlenecks
Troubleshoot network bottlenecks and boost maintenance, with end-to-end visibility and detailed analytics across all internal network traffic.
Cost reductions
Allocate network resources more efficiently by understanding traffic volume trends, how network devices are performing and moving data between them, and remaining storage capacity.
Why Cloudflare
Key use cases for network monitoring tools
Identify DDoS attacks
The most obvious symptom of a DDoS attack is a site or service suddenly becoming slow or unavailable. But legitimate traffic surges can also create similar performance issues. Network monitoring tools help spot some of the telltale signs of a DDoS attack, so network teams can respond appropriately.
Monitor and analyze all traffic
Answers questions like, “What is my network’s peak traffic volume? What are the sources of that traffic? When does my network see that traffic?” With real-time traffic data, organizations can confirm their security policies work, identify new vulnerabilities, and analyze shifting traffic patterns — before emergencies occur.
Proactively improve security
You can’t stop threats you do not see. Visibility into traffic analytics, such as unexpected service disruptions, are important for understanding your network’s normal operations and proactively improving your security.
Monitor local network traffic from IoT devices
Organizations need to establish network visibility into IoT device traffic that may not be going through their own network provider. Network monitoring tools help pinpoint when an IoT device goes down, or when a connection between IoT devices are unexpectedly blocked.
Improve your network visibility in as little as 30 minutes
Resources
What is enterprise networking?
An enterprise network privately connects branch offices, internal data centers, and employee devices. Today, enterprise networking is rapidly evolving.
What is network security?
Network security is a category of practices and technologies that keep internal networks protected from attacks and data breaches. It includes access control, cyber attack prevention, malware detection, and other security measures.
What is a DDoS attack?
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.
Free network flow monitoring for all enterprise customers
Every Enterprise Customer can configure Cloudflare’s Network Flow and immediately improve their network visibility in as little as 30 minutes via our self-serve onboarding process.
Network flow monitoring is GA, providing end-to-end traffic visibility
Cloudflare is excited to announce that Network Flow is now generally available to all enterprise customers. Network Flow helps customers identify threats faster, reduce vulnerabilities, and make their network more secure.
DDoS threat report for 2024 Q2
Welcome to the 18th edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report. Released quarterly, these reports provide an in-depth analysis of the DDoS threat landscape as observed across the Cloudflare network.
Cloudflare Network Flow
Network Flow provides end-to-end network traffic visibility, real-time alerts, and DDoS attack identification — all from a single, integrated dashboard.
Cloudflare Network Analytics
Network Flow provides end-to-end network traffic visibility, real-time alerts, and DDoS attack identification — all from a single, integrated dashboard.
A new framework for network security
As old network security models failed to keep up with developing threats and modern-day network architecture increased in complexity, organizations have begun the shift to a new cloud-based security model: Secure Access Service Edge, or ‘SASE.’