The release of LiveNX 24.3.0 marks a transformative leap in generative AI-powered network intelligence, delivering smarter, more adaptive tools to help IT teams stay ahead in managing complex networks. With innovations such as dynamic thresholding, automated root cause analysis (RCA), and AI-driven corrective suggestions, LiveNX empowers organizations to not only detect and resolve issues faster but also anticipate potential challenges before they impact performance.
These capabilities, combined with faster and more flexible reporting, enhanced application bandwidth monitoring, and deeper deployment insights, showcase LiveAction’s commitment to redefining network performance management. With LiveNX 24.3.0, IT teams gain the intelligence and automation needed to proactively optimize operations and achieve superior business outcomes.
Major capabilities in 24.3.0:
1. Faster and More Flexible Reporting
LiveNX 24.3.0 continues to push the boundaries of network performance reporting with significant advancements in data handling, reporting flexibility, and speed. This release marks a milestone in our transition to ClickHouse for flow, Layer 2 QoS, and Custom OID data, offering unparalleled performance and granularity. Building upon the foundation laid in 24.2.0, LiveNX 24.3.0 introduces new support for raw data storage, enabling reports to execute directly from unaggregated data for enhanced detail and flexibility. Users can now benefit from expanded report types, advanced filtering capabilities, and a faster, more efficient reporting experience.
Customer Benefits: By transitioning to a more powerful and scalable reporting engine, LiveNX 24.3.0 empowers customers with faster access to actionable insights, enabling quicker troubleshooting and decision-making. The addition of advanced filters and raw data analysis provides unprecedented depth and precision, helping customers optimize network performance and reduce downtime. Simplified database management and improved query performance ensure that even high-volume environments can maintain efficiency and reliability, making it easier for IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than system maintenance. With these enhancements, LiveNX 24.3.0 helps organizations future-proof their network operations and achieve superior business outcomes.
2. New Application Bandwidth Alert for Enhanced Traffic Monitoring
LiveNX 2024.3 introduces a new alert for application bandwidth, empowering users to identify and respond to anomalous traffic behavior for specific applications. This alert supports the standard LiveNX functionality, including multiple instances, severities, and filtering options such as region, site, device, interface, tag, and application. With features like contribution to status, auto-resolution, and a configurable “for at least” threshold, this alert offers granular monitoring tailored to individual use cases.
The alert evaluates each incoming flow record by calculating bandwidth from the byte count and switch times, delivering precise, real-time insights. Alerts are uniquely keyed by fields such as device, interface, direction, and application, ensuring detailed and actionable notifications. Users can also drill down into application traffic behavior with intuitive reports, linking alerts to broader traffic trends.
Customer Benefits
This new alert provides customers with critical visibility into application bandwidth usage, enabling them to quickly identify and respond to unexpected traffic patterns that could indicate anomalies or misuse. By offering granular monitoring and customizable thresholds, it allows organizations to focus on specific applications or interfaces, ensuring targeted and effective traffic management. The ability to configure “for at least” durations further reduces noise from transient traffic spikes, ensuring alerts are meaningful and actionable.
By introducing this alert, LiveNX enhances its commitment to providing robust, real-time monitoring solutions that help organizations maintain optimal network performance and respond proactively to traffic anomalies.
3. Dynamic Thresholding for Smarter Application Performance Alerts
LiveNX 2024.3 introduces dynamic alert thresholds for latency alerts, starting with Application Performance – App Delay, marking a significant step toward adaptive network monitoring. This feature dynamically adjusts thresholds based on historical data from the past 30 days, tailored to the specific hour and day of the week. By adapting to natural variations in latency, it reduces false positives and ensures more accurate and actionable alerts. With four flexible configurations—Static, Dynamic, Static and Dynamic, and Static or Dynamic—users can tailor alerts to specific operational needs. These thresholds are polled hourly from ClickHouse and dynamically calculated based on user-configured filters, ensuring real-time precision.
Customer Benefits
Dynamic thresholding enhances operational efficiency by significantly reducing the noise caused by static threshold alerts, enabling IT teams to focus on addressing genuine performance issues. By aligning thresholds with historical performance patterns, it minimizes false positives while providing accurate, actionable insights. The flexibility to configure thresholds to match specific business needs ensures that alerts are both relevant and precise, improving overall network reliability.
This capability also sets the foundation for future innovations in behavioral anomaly detection, where advanced analytics and multi-metric correlation will enable even smarter, predictive insights. As organizations face increasingly complex networks, this feature empowers them to proactively address emerging issues, enhancing performance and ensuring smoother operations.
4. Automated Root Cause Analysis with Generative AI for Application Performance Alerts
LiveNX 2024.3 introduces automated root cause analysis (RCA) powered by generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to revolutionize troubleshooting for application performance alerts. This feature analyzes alert data, such as flow path analysis for application delay, network delay, jitter, and packet loss, to deliver actionable insights into potential issues and recommend remediations. RCA is supported for a wide range of alerts, including critical traffic response time, voice/video performance metrics, and WAN interface utilization, empowering users to resolve issues with precision.
The feature leverages the LiveAssist platform to process alert data in real-time. When enabled, relevant alerts include an AI Diagnostics – Root Cause Analysis section displaying RCA results, allowing users to focus on specific instances by applying filters for better performance and relevance. While RCA does not apply retroactively to historical alerts and is disabled by default, it provides a scalable and efficient approach to addressing performance issues in real-time.
Customer Benefits
This feature brings transformative benefits to customers by significantly reducing the time and effort required for troubleshooting. Automated RCA enables faster identification of the root cause of issues, helping IT teams take immediate action and minimize downtime. By leveraging generative AI, the analysis goes beyond surface-level metrics to provide actionable insights and remediation recommendations, ensuring that even complex performance problems are resolved efficiently. The ability to filter and focus RCAs ensures that alerts are not only relevant but also tailored to specific business contexts, improving the effectiveness of IT operations.
As part of LiveNX’s ongoing innovation, automated RCA represents a key step in integrating AI into network intelligence solutions. It paves the way for further advancements in automated troubleshooting workflows, ensuring that organizations can address performance challenges proactively and efficiently in increasingly complex network environments.
5. Enhanced Monitoring of LiveNX Itself with Prometheus and Grafana
LiveNX 2024.3 introduces Prometheus and Grafana to provide enhanced monitoring of LiveNX itself, delivering powerful insights into the performance and health of the deployment. With preconfigured Grafana dashboards, users can monitor critical system metrics, including Host Metrics (Node Exporter Full), Docker Metrics (Cadvisor Exporter), ClickHouse Metrics, LiveNX Performance, JVM (Micrometer), and OpenTelemetry. Grafana is securely accessible at https://<livenx-ip>:3000/, offering centralized visibility into LiveNX operations.
This feature provides significant benefits to customers, improving operational visibility by enabling administrators to quickly identify and address performance issues within their LiveNX deployment. Continuous monitoring facilitates proactive issue resolution, allowing teams to detect anomalies early and minimize downtime. With encrypted communication and required authorization, sensitive system metrics are protected, ensuring secure monitoring. Seamless integration with the LiveNX web application simplifies setup, while the scalability and flexibility of Prometheus and Grafana allow for tailored monitoring to suit deployments of any size.
Additionally, this feature greatly enhances LiveAction Support’s ability to assist customers in diagnosing and resolving performance issues. The detailed metrics and dashboards provide deeper insights, enabling faster diagnostics and proactive identification of potential bottlenecks or degraded services. By aligning the monitoring capabilities between customers and support teams, troubleshooting becomes more collaborative and efficient, ensuring consistent and effective resolutions.
By empowering both customers and LiveAction Support with robust monitoring tools, this feature helps maintain optimal LiveNX performance, enhance deployment reliability, and improve overall network operational efficiency.
Minor Enhancements in 24.3.0:
LiveNX 24.3.0 introduces several minor but impactful features designed to enhance user experience, streamline workflows, and provide deeper insights into network performance. These updates, spanning authentication, dashboards, onboarding, reporting, and flow path analysis, reflect our ongoing commitment to delivering a user-friendly and highly functional platform. Here’s a look at the latest enhancements:
Authentication
- Simplified Login for Non-Local Authentication: The login screen has been revamped to provide a smoother experience for users leveraging non-local authentication mechanisms, reducing complexity and making access quicker and more intuitive.
Dashboards
- Automated Full-Screen Dashboard Cycling: Keep your team updated at a glance with the ability to cycle through multiple full-screen dashboards at predefined intervals. This enhancement is perfect for NOCs and monitoring stations that need continuous updates without manual intervention.
Onboarding
- Streamlined Interface Removal: Simplifying network management, we’ve made it easier to remove interfaces during the onboarding process, saving time and reducing errors.
- Enhanced F5 Interface Discovery: Improved the discovery process for F5 interfaces, ensuring comprehensive visibility into your network infrastructure and optimizing device management.
Reporting
- Flex Search for TCP Flags: Gain more granular insights into traffic patterns and troubleshoot issues effectively with the addition of flex search functionality for TCP flags in reporting.
Flow Path Analysis
- Device Model in Topology Table: To provide richer context, the device model is now displayed in the flow path analysis topology table, offering deeper visibility into your network topology and helping you make more informed decisions.
These enhancements are designed to simplify operations, enhance visibility, and improve overall efficiency for network teams. With LiveNX 24.3.0, managing and optimizing complex networks has never been easier!
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Update to LiveNX 24.3.0 to experience these new features and improvements firsthand. Our commitment to delivering cutting-edge, user-friendly solutions drives each release, and we’re excited for you to explore the enhanced capabilities in this version. With 24.3.0, we bring you more flexibility, powerful integration, and improved network insights to elevate your monitoring experience.