Network performance plays a key role in service delivery, acutely impacting user experience. However, enterprise teams have long struggled with comprehensive insight into network performance and, when necessary, the ability to hold circuit vendors accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fortunately, Selector\u2019s advances in network monitoring and observability support detailed visibility into circuit performance, making it possible to establish service level agreements (SLAs), service level objectives (SLOs), and service level indicators (SLIs) for circuits. These correspond to the promises organizations make to their customers, the internal objectives that help organizations keep those promises, and the direct measurements organizations use to assess their performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fact, Selector can collect and analyze telemetry from your full-stack, delivering insight into SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for network, but also infrastructure, cloud, and application as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs are used extensively within the discipline of site reliability engineering. However, the network domain has been historically underserved. Innovations in tooling, philosophies, and practices oriented around reliability and performance are largely applied elsewhere. Fortunately, we can learn from these innovations to improve delivery of the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For instance, in the infrastructure and application spaces, we have the concept of a site reliability engineer (SRE). This role has become table stakes for any enterprise looking to competently deliver a service. In contrast, network reliability engineers (NREs) remain relatively uncommon. NRE responsibilities are similar to those of SREs, but specifically adapted to measuring and stabilizing the reliability of the network to align with enterprise goals.
A likely reason for the obscurity of NREs as well as the absence of impactful practices such as circuit SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs, has been insufficient data and tooling. However, the tide has turned. Selector\u2019s unified monitoring, observability, and AIOps platform is uniquely positioned to provide teams with essential insight into network health and performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To achieve a comprehensive view of network performance, circuit performance must be taken into account. Selector helps operators assess circuit performance by providing unprecedented visibility into circuit KPIs such as latency, jitter and error rate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clients benefit from an integrated network monitoring solution, accessible through a unified dashboard, that replaces key functionality historically addressed by multiple tools. Most crucially, Selector\u2019s platform assists operators with defining and continuously monitoring their SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n