Layer 8 Netsteight™ Features

Visibility is only the beginning.

Bring monitoring, topology, intelligence and operations together in one place.

The Operational Surface

The tools your team uses every day.

Monitoring, topology, inventory, automation and lifecycle tools give the intelligence layer the context it needs—and give your team one place to work.

01
Observe

Monitoring & Telemetry

Build the operational evidence base across traditional, cloud-managed and virtual infrastructure.

Network devices & interfacesHealth, availability, CPU, memory, traffic, errors, discards and port state.
Wireless & client experienceAccess points, radios, bands, clients, RF context, signal and wireless health.
Cloud-managed networkingCloud targets normalized into the same operational view as traditional infrastructure.
Services & uptimeAvailability, latency, SLA context and service-level alerts.
VirtualizationHosts, virtual machines, clusters, datastores and supporting infrastructure.
Logs, events & alert timelineOperational events and parsed logs tied back to the affected infrastructure.
02
Understand

Topology, Inventory & Physical Context

Keep the logical network and the physical environment connected to the same source of truth.

Live Layer 2 / Layer 3 topologyExplore the monitored fabric, relationships and dependency paths.
Dependency & impact mappingFollow upstream and downstream relationships and understand likely blast radius.
Racks & elevation editorDocument mounted devices, RU placement and patch-panel context.
Rack floorplansView rack rows and physical placement grouped by site.
Assets & circuitsMaintain normalized asset records and circuit or interface assignments.
IPAM & discoveryTrack IP addresses, VLANs, MAC/ARP data and on-prem or cloud discovery targets.
03
Operate

Automation, Control & Lifecycle

Turn repeatable engineering practices into governed workflows while keeping people in control of changes.

PlaybooksBuild event, schedule, device and condition-driven workflows for repeatable response.
Diagnostics & action builderUse structured or natural-language workflows for show commands, ping, traceroute, API actions and approved configuration steps.
Human authorization & auditRequire explicit approval for controlled actions and record who approved them and when.
Alert silences, contacts & routingSchedule silences, manage contacts and route notifications by operational rule.
Configuration historyReview current configuration, recent changes and version history from the same workspace.
Support, updates & licensingKeep Layer 8 Netsteight lifecycle, software updates and Cloud Gateway licensing in the operational experience.
Engineering Knowledge, Made Repeatable

Capture the way your team responds—without giving up control.

Playbooks can automate routine evidence gathering and approved response steps while preserving explicit authorization for anything that can change the network.

TriggerEvent, time or condition
ScopeDevice, service or object
DiagnoseShow, ping, trace or API
AuthorizeControlled change
Always-On Intelligence

The intelligence keeps working as the environment changes.

It does more than flag a problem. It keeps gathering evidence, connecting related changes, testing likely causes and looking ahead so your team has a stronger starting point with every update.

01Correlation & dependency reasoningConnect symptoms, events, topology, dependencies, history and diagnostic evidence.
02Anomaly & behavioral baselinesSeparate meaningful behavioral change from routine variation using current and historical context.
03Continuous Pulse stateMaintain a refreshed view of operational health and active conditions as evidence changes.
04Trend, trajectory & predictive intelligenceSurface developing performance, capacity and reliability risk before impact grows.
05Investigations & root cause analysisBuild and revise evidence, confidence, likely causes and working RCA as incidents evolve.
06Feedback & recurring patternsUse operator feedback to refine confidence and recognize recurring operational conditions.
See the Outcome

Features are the tools. Insights is where the story comes together.

See how Layer 8 Netsteight turns operational data into priorities, forward risk, investigations and useful reporting.

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