How do network monitoring systems like SolarWinds work? What is network monitoring?
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Network monitoring is a very broad topic that covers any hardware or software solution used to monitor traffic on a computer network. What type of traffic is being monitored, how, why, and what is done with the information gained all vary wildly, and there are many different products on the market that do the same thing different ways or do different things and are complementary.
Network monitoring could be anything from checking your home network router logs to see which websites were visited, to a company running a dedicated proxy server that inspects all network packets and records everything that employees are doing on the network.
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