NetProfiler

“Actionable Intelligence with Adaptive AI as part of the Riverbed IQ AIOps Platform.”

What is NetProfiler?

NetProfiler is Riverbed’s flow-based performance and security analytics solution, delivering end-to-end visibility into traffic flows, application performance, and user experience across hybrid infrastructures.

By leveraging enriched flow data (NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, cloud flow logs) combined with Adaptive AI, NetProfiler provides actionable intelligence to detect anomalies, optimize WAN/SD-WAN, and correlate performance issues.

Integrated into the Riverbed IQ AIOps Platform, NetProfiler works alongside AppResponse (packets) and Aternity (digital experience monitoring) to deliver a unified observability and AIOps framework.

Key Features

• Flow-Based Visibility
  ▫️Collects and analyzes enriched flows from routers, switches, SD-WAN, and cloud providers.
  ▫️Supports AWS VPC Flow Logs, Azure NSG flows, and Google Cloud.
• Application Performance Analytics
  ▫️Identifies application usage, latency, and response times by site, user, and service.
  ▫️Correlates traffic flows with business-critical apps and SaaS.
• Adaptive AI for Flow Data
  ▫️ Detects anomalies and changes in flow patterns.
  ▫️ Baselines traffic behaviors for WAN, SD-WAN, and cloud services.
  ▫️Provides prioritized, actionable intelligence to reduce alert fatigue.
• Hybrid & Cloud Readiness
  ▫️Visibility from on-premises WANs to multi-cloud interconnections.
  ▫️Validates cloud migrations and SaaS performance.
• Integration with Riverbed IQ Platform
  ▫️Unified dashboards correlating flows (NetProfiler) + packets (AppResponse) + user experience (Aternity).
  ▫️AIOps-driven prioritization of incidents and guided resolution.

Benefits for the Client

• Comprehensive visibility – track application and network performance from branch to cloud.
  
• Proactive anomaly detection – AI baselines spot traffic deviations early.
  
• Optimized SD-WAN – validate and fine-tune SD-WAN performance.
  
• Accelerated troubleshooting – correlate flow anomalies with packet-level evidence (AppResponse) and user impact (Aternity).
  
• Unified AIOps – part of Riverbed IQ, ensuring shared insights across NetOps, SecOps, and ITOps.

Why Riverbed NetProfiler (in IQ) is Different

• Actionable Intelligence with Adaptive AI – turns flow noise into insights.
  
• Full observability synergy – with AppResponse (packets) and Aternity (users).
  
• Cloud-native support – enriched visibility into AWS, Azure, and hybrid networks.
  
• End-to-end coverage – WAN, SD-WAN, data centers, and SaaS.
  
• Enterprise-proven – trusted by large-scale global enterprises and service providers.

Typical Use Cases

• Detect SD-WAN misconfigurations and optimize hybrid WAN performance.
• Monitor SaaS adoption and performance at the branch level.
  Identify unusual traffic flows that may indicate security threats.
• Troubleshoot application slowness by correlating flows + packets + users.
• Support cloud migration projects with flow-based performance validation.

Services & Support (What We Offer)

• Flow Intelligence Assessment – evaluate WAN/SD-WAN and SaaS visibility gaps.
  
• Deployment Services – integrate NetProfiler into Riverbed IQ and hybrid infrastructures.
  
• AI Workshops – configure adaptive baselines and actionable flow insights.
  
• Optimization Services – tune flow collection, retention, and reporting dashboards.