Live Network Context
Complete Visibility Across Your Multi-Vendor, Hybrid-Cloud Network
NetBrain gives you real-time visibility across multi-vendor, hybrid-cloud networks: live topology, application path mapping, and instant bottleneck detection. Every diagnosis, change, and compliance check runs against that live picture, not a static diagram, so you get full network observability, not just monitoring.
Live Network Context: Always Current
NetBrain builds a live, human- and agent-ready view of the network from state across the control, data, and management planes, a context-aware digital twin of every device, topology, path, and state. Live Network Context requires these elements:
- Device configurations
- Baseline topology
- Live, golden and historical end-to-end paths
- current state
When you need to diagnose or make a change in the network, it’s critical to work from a live model so you know what the network is actually doing.
Your Entire Network, Mapped
Map Any Problem Network Area Instantly
Dynamic Map and Path generate a network map the moment a ticket or alert fires. One-IP Table gives one live view of every IP address across the multi-vendor network. Cloud & Kubernetes Support extends that visibility natively into AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes.
- Visualize L2, L3, overlay, and underlay topology
- Overlay ITSM, NPM, and SIEM data on a map
- Export maps, inventory, and configs to Word and Visio
- Drill down into any device or path
- Run inventory reports across the network
Application Path
Trace Any Application Path on the Network
Application Path pairs NetBrain’s network context with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) data, like Dynatrace, mapping business-application experience directly onto the same multi-vendor, hybrid-cloud network map that grounds every action. Teams see one holistic picture instead of guessing or finger-pointing.
- Monitor path health, performance, and connectivity continuously
- Generate A-to-B paths on demand to trace business traffic
- Overlay third-party data (APM, logs, CMDB) onto paths
- View live path deviations from golden and historical baselines
- Stop spending time validating paths and get ones you can trust, maintained automatically by AI.
Event-Triggered Mapping
Context Assembled Before Your NOC Team Touches a Ticket
The moment a ticket or alert fires, NetBrain generates the map of the affected network area: devices, topology, paths, and the policies that should hold. One map, covering:
- Network devices and sites
- Your Intent and Spec with live data
- End-to-end application connectivity and performance (live, historical, golden)
- Public clouds, SDN (Cisco ACI, VMware NSX), and SD-WAN
- Kubernetes overlays
Auto-Discovery
NetBrain auto-discovers your live, multi-vendor network via CLI, SNMP, and API, comparing it against historical and baseline data to build a network CMDB.
“ NetBrain provides a simpler way to manage our complex network. Our network engineers emphasized that a network tool was required to facilitate troubleshooting and provide a graphical view of the network. NetBrain was selected because it proved to be a mature application and was recommended by several colleagues. The implementation was extremely simple, and the software is very efficient at identifying network devices and creating an accurate dynamic network diagram. ”
IT Business ConsultantEnergy and Utilities
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Live Network Context?
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Live Network Context is NetBrain’s continuously refreshed model of your network’s topology, path, device state, and inventory, spanning physical, cloud, and virtual infrastructure (the context-aware digital twin). It reflects what the network looks like right now, not a static diagram.
- How is this different from traditional network monitoring?
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Monitoring tells you something is wrong. NetBrain’s context model tells you what the network looks like and how it’s connected, which is what diagnosis, change validation, and compliance checks depend on. NetBrain runs alongside your existing monitoring stack rather than replacing it.
- Does NetBrain support Kubernetes and multi-cloud environments?
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Yes. Cloud & Kubernetes Support covers AWS, Azure, and GCP alongside Kubernetes overlays, as part of the same context model used for on-premises infrastructure.
- What is Application Path, and how does it use Dynatrace?
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Application Path maps business-application experience from APMs such as Dynatrace onto the network path it depends on, so app and network teams work from the same picture.