According to the census, 4.6 million people work in the IT industry.
One of those jobs of an IT department is network monitoring and tracking the KPIs. But what KPIs should you be tracking?
Keep reading to learn all about these network metrics that will help you grow your network and keep it running.
Jitter
Network jitter will hurt your network’s transmission, especially if you’re using real-time apps. This will make your video conferencing, VPN, and other virtual desktops struggle.
Jitter is a type of delay that happens in your network. It disrupts the data packets that travel across the network to provide a stable connection.
There are many different factors that will cause jitter on your network. However, it can be difficult to measure because it doesn’t always affect network traffic in the same way.
One of the main causes is network congestion. This means that there are too many devices on the network, and they can’t keep up.
Bandwidth Usage
Bandwidth is the amount of data that you can send over a network. There’s normally a maximum limit that you can send.
If you want to have good network operations, you should try and get as close to the bandwidth as you possibly can. This means that your network is sending as much data as it can, but it’s not overloaded.
Latency
Latency is one thing to measure that warns you that something could be wrong with your network. Normally, these are early signs that something is going wrong.
If you notice that you’re losing more latency, it’ll affect the users and the services and slow everything down.
Packet Loss
Packet loss is a reference to how many packets you send out from one point in the network to another point. However, they never get to the destination.
To measure this, you’ll have to capture data tracking on the different points of the sender and receiver. This will help you figure out how many packets are getting lost.
If you are losing hundreds of them, that means your network isn’t performing at an optimized rate.
Throughput
If you’re running multicloud networking, you should be measuring throughput. This is the amount of data that goes through your network in a certain amount of time.
This is the rate at which data is delivered over communication channels, and it’s measured in bits per second.
Most Internet companies refer to this as connection speed, but it’s the same thing as throughput. You may need to test out which throughput is best for your network. You can also measure it by doing speed tests.
Learn More About Network Monitoring KPIs
These are only a few network monitoring KPIs that you should know about, but there are many more of them to track as well.
We know that running your own IT business can be stressful, but this is one of the essentials you’ll need to do.
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