Observer Versions

What's New in Observer 15

The newest Observer platform brings together the latest in application monitoring on the technologies that you care about. From complete video monitoring support, to tracking end-user experience without adding agent weight, Observer 15 has it all.

Take advantage of these new features:

  • Ensure great video experiences whether monitoring desktop, conference room, or telepresence calls
  • Validate performance for Microsoft UC
  • Simplify tracking of end-user experience with out-of-the-box reports
  • Debug, resolve, and monitor IBM WebSphere MQ
  • Verify multicast streams as well as gauge the impact of microburst
  • Enhance capture and monitoring performance, flexibility, and scalability with the newly redesigned Gen2 capture cards
  • Reduce overhead and bandwidth by completely shifting analysis from the console to the probe
  • Simplify application discovery and monitoring with centralized application maps
  • Export selected captures within Observer and GigaStor to external analysis and security solutions

Observer Standard

Network Instruments Observer

Observer Standard provides first-level network analysis, including real-time packet captures and decodes, filtering, real-time statistics, triggers and alarms, trending, and more across multiple topologies (LAN, wireless, and gigabit).

Observer fully supports 64-bit Windows to maximize analysis performance. A 32-bit version is also included. The capture buffer is limited by the operating system (4 GB for 32-bit, 124 GB for 64-bit).

Observer is the only network analyzer built from a unified code set. This unique advantage, the Distributed Network Analysis (NI-DNAT) architecture, offers scalability and seamless integration across the entire Observer family. You'll need just one interface to carry out network monitoring across topologies, locations, and technologies.

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Observer Expert

Network Instruments Observer

Shave time from your troubleshooting day with Observer Expert by quickly pinpointing problems and their root causes, and responding with our Expert help.

You receive the power of the Observer network analyzer, plus Expert Event notification with suggested solutions, powerful analytics, and in-depth application analysis.

Keep business-critical applications functioning properly-keeping end-users satisfied-with application performance solutions unequalled in an integrated network analyzer.

Add VoIP Expert Analysis, Stream Reconstruction, Multi-Hop Analysis, and Connection Dynamics and you've got an all-in-one powerhouse troubleshooting solution.

        

Observer Suite

Observer Suite is your one-stop troubleshooting powerhouse. It contains all the potent features of Observer Expert, including Expert Analysis, VoIP tools, in-depth application analysis, Connection Dynamics, stream reconstruction, and more, plus support for SNMP and RMON device management.

For maximum 64-bit processing, Observer Suite includes a 64-bit core. A 32-bit version is also included.

All you need is a web browser to view data and generate reports for non-Observer users (other employees or outside consultants). You control the level of access. Share reports across the company and automate report delivery. Obtain current and historical data as well as usage trends based upon specific stations.