Enhancing Network Performance and Security with NetProfiler 10.28

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, IT teams demand real-time visibility, proactive insights, and control over their networks. With the rapid expansion of cloud adoption, SD-WAN deployments, and evolving security challenges, enterprises need more than just monitoring—they need preventive intelligence. 

NetProfiler 10.28, Riverbed’s latest release, delivers enhanced SD-WAN support, deeper security insights, and smarter monitoring capabilities. This version strengthens network observability, helping IT teams stay ahead of performance issues and security risks before they impact operations.

Key enhancements in NetProfiler 10.28 

• Expanded SD-WAN Visibility – Now supports Velocloud (VMware/Broadcom) and Versa, in addition to Cisco Viptela, providing SD-WAN-aware traffic insights.
• Reporting on DENIED Flows – Detects traffic blocked by security policies in AWS and Azure, enabling faster troubleshooting.
• Health Alerts & Proactive Monitoring – Introduces new runtime alerts for policy execution.
• Precomputed Data Backup – Ensures continuous fast data reporting by allowing precomputed data backup and flow collection monitoring.
• AI-Powered Flow Enrichment – Merges metadata from APIs, Flow Logs, and SD-WAN Orchestrators for advanced network analytics.

 SD-WAN Visibility: Now with Velocloud & Versa Support 

SD-WAN is the backbone of modern enterprise networking, and NetProfiler continues to strengthen its capabilities in this space. NetProfiler 10.28 expands beyond Cisco Viptela, adding Velocloud and Versa SD-WAN support for deeper understanding of your SD-WAN environment. 

What’s New? 

• Velocloud SD-WAN – Bi-directional flow visualization for improved overlay/underlay traffic analysis, plus enhanced site and Layer 7 reporting.
• Versa SD-WAN – Site-level monitoring, device health tracking, and traffic flow insights, now searchable in Advanced Traffic Reports.

As multi-vendor SD-WAN adoption grows, NetProfiler unifies visibility across hybrid environments, ensuring seamless monitoring and performance optimization. 

Reporting on DENIED Flows: Strengthening cloud security 

In today’s complex cloud environments, IT teams need full visibility into both allowed and blocked traffic to enforce security policies effectively. Unauthorized access, misconfigurations, and policy violations often go undetected. NetProfiler 10.28 introduces DENIED flow reporting, providing real-time insights into blocked connections from AWS and Azure firewalls—enabling faster troubleshooting, stronger security, and improved compliance.

Key Benefits 

• Diagnose Security Policy Issues – Identify misconfigurations that may be blocking legitimate traffic.
• Detect Unauthorized Access Attempts – Track attempted intrusions or policy violations.
• Ensure Compliance – Maintain visibility over blocked connections in regulated environments.

Proactive Health Alerts & Policy Runtime Monitoring 

Real-time network insights are only valuable if IT teams can act before issues escalate. NetProfiler 10.28 introduces proactive health alerts, ensuring networks run efficiently and user-defined policies execute without delays. 

New Features 

• Flow Collection Health Alerts – Notifies IT when NetProfiler approaches flow processing limits, preventing data loss.
• Policy Runtime Monitoring – Tracks execution times for user-defined policies, ensuring they run efficiently without impacting system performance.

These enhancements help IT teams maintain optimal network performance, proactively addressing issues before they disrupt business operations. 

Precomputed Data Backup 

Unexpected outages and system migrations often lead to data loss and downtime. NetProfiler 10.28 solves this with precomputed data backups that enable organizations with faster reporting of status. 

Why It Matters

• Minimizes downtime in disaster recovery scenarios.
• Enables smooth NetProfiler migrations without data loss.
• Ensures IT teams retain historical network insights during system transitions.

Traditional flow monitoring often lacks context, requiring IT teams to manually analyze raw data across multiple sources. NetProfiler 10.28 solves this by integrating AI-powered flow enrichment, which combines metadata from Cloud Flow Logs, SD-WAN Orchestrators, and APIs. 

Key Benefits

• Correlates data from multiple sources for a unified view of network behavior.
• Speeds up root cause analysis for faster issue resolution.
• Enhances security monitoring with deeper traffic insights.

Instead of manually piecing together data, IT teams can now leverage AI-driven intelligence for more efficient network decision-making.

Why upgrade to NetProfiler 10.28? 

NetProfiler 10.28 delivers powerful enhancements that give IT teams deeper network visibility, stronger security, and proactive monitoring. With expanded SD-WAN support for Velocloud and Versa, DENIED flow analysis for improved security insights, real-time health alerts, precomputed data backup for seamless recovery, and AI-powered flow enrichment for smarter decision-making, this release helps IT teams stay ahead of performance issues and security risks.

For organizations looking to optimize IT operations and strengthen network observability, NetProfiler 10.28 is a must-have upgrade.