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Firewall Monitoring Solution
Don’t let an overloaded firewall choke your network’s performance
Your firewall’s performance affects your entire network’s performance.
Your firewall is your business’ security guard - all internet action needs to go through your firewall before it can reach your network to make sure there’s no potential security threat. That means that your firewall is extremely critical to your business.
So if there’s something wrong with your firewall’s performance, it’ll affect that performance of your entire network.
With Obkio’s Firewall monitoring, you get a continuous view of your firewall performance:
- Monitor Firewall performance with real traffic.
- Measure the impact of your firewall on your actual users.
- View Firewall performance metrics in real-time.
- Be notified immediately of network problems.
- And more!
Obkio takes firewall performance seriously, and so should you.
Is your Firewall strong enough to sustain your network?
Firewalls are complex, and adding security features is vital to your business, but can consume resources and equipment. Manufacturers are pros at selling you Firewall specifications, but it’s difficult to know which firewall sizing model you actually need.
Undetected traffic or CPU bursts in your firewall can create intermittent network issues and are often signs of upcoming problems that can worsen over time if undetected.
If your firewall chokes, your whole network suffers. So if your firewall is overloaded, you need to detect it before your end-users feel the negative effects.
There are 5 things that affect Firewall Performance:
- The volume of traffic
- The type of traffic
- The amount of users on your firewall
- The amount of connections on your VPN
- The quantity of security features in your firewall
That’s why Obkio offers the best of our Network Performance Monitoring solution and our Network Device Monitoring solution to give you a global view of your firewall performance and whether it can sustain your growing business.
"Deploying Obkio allowed me to quickly pinpoint a vastly underestimated problem on my firewall that was actually affecting the network performance of all my remote users."
- Dominic D., Infrastructure IT Manager at Station 22
Read the Station 22 Network Performance Monitoring Case Study
Keeping your Firewall strong with these features
Monitoring from the end-user perspective
Continuous Traffic
Obkio monitors the impact of your firewall by injecting synthetic traffic to monitor from the end-user perspective. So if packets are dropped or applications slow down, we’ll be the first to know.
A Global View
Obkio’s Firewall Monitoring solution gives you a global view of your whole network and not just your firewall - giving network admins the data they need to see the whole picture clearly.
Focus on Performance
Obkio’s solution focuses on your firewall’s performance by measuring usage of each CPU’s core and other device interface metrics that provide you with a precise view of network performance.
Ultra Fast Polling
Get 10x more detailed metrics than the 5-min industry standard frequency with our fast 30 second polling. Quickly detect performance issues that may have otherwise gone undetected.
SNMP Monitoring
As long as your firewall supports SNMP Polling, Obkio’s network device monitoring feature will communicate with your firewall or SNMP-enabled device to provide you with key performance metrics.
Pinpoint Intermittent Issues
Intermittent problems are the most difficult to solve. Pinpoint the location and cause of intermittent network issues to help you troubleshoot and solve problems quickly.
The Advantages of Firewall Monitoring With Obkio
So your business can keep running with piece of mind
Quick Solutions
Resolve Firewall issues fast, with shorter down time to keep your network up and running at all times.
End-User Perspective
Obkio monitors firewall performance as if we were actual users. So you get an outsider perspective on performance.
Automatic Alerts
Obkio finds the issues for you, so you don’t have to! you'll be notified if your firewall is down or network performance is affected.
Easy to Use
You don’t need any expertise in SNMP, OIDs or MIBs to set up. Add your firewall as a device and all data is available in the Obkio App.