Your digital transformation is only as good as the technology that supports it, which is why it's so important to maintain the system health and performance of your infrastructure. Do you have microservices or distributed systems to keep track of? Cloud-native apps, container workloads, Kubernetes environments, or multicloud systems? You need to see what's happening across your entire IT landscape, and the critical question is, how do you do that?

Network loops are one of the few pieces of evidence that the universe loves to laugh at us. Somewhere, right this minute, a five-dollar Ethernet cable is taking down a million-dollar infrastructure. An innocent intern trying to get internet in the conference room has both ends of a patch cable plugged into the same switch, and now 500 employees are staring at the spinning wheel of doom. Meanwhile, the CEO's slideshow presentation is stuck on the same slide for the umpteenth time, and the accounting department rocking back and forth crying, "Remember the good old days of the pre-internet world?"

I'll never forget the night our entire network went down at 2:17 AM. I was the on-call network administrator, and my phone exploded with alerts. Customers couldn't access our web server. Our data center was essentially offline. The CEO was calling. And I had absolutely no idea what had gone wrong or where to even start looking.

Let's face it - reactive monitoring just doesn't cut it anymore. We've all been there: the frantic troubleshooting, and the painful post-mortem explaining why critical systems went down. These failures cost companies millions in downtime every year (not to mention countless IT team headaches).