Full Packet Capture Solutions for Network Troubleshooting
Full packet capture solutions for network troubleshooting gives IT teams detailed insight into network activity. These solutions help identify performance issues, isolate root causes, and restore service quickly. SentryWire equips organizations with reliable tools to improve uptime and ensure operational efficiency.
Various Forensic Traffic Analysis
Unlike packet sniffers that only inspect headers or metadata, SentryWire captures complete network packets for forensic replay, deep packet inspection, and long-term analysis.
Network Access Control (NAC) Analysis
Scale searches with compute and storage, streaming results from PCAP files in near real time without slowing down network performance.
Encryption Visibility
Capture at line rates from 1Mbps to +1Tbps with lossless performance, even during the burstiest network activity.
Network Behavior Anomaly Detection (NBAD)
Retain network traffic for weeks, months, or even years, ensuring analysts can revisit packet data long after most tools have aged out.
User Anomalous Behavior
Capture at line rates from 1Mbps to +1Tbps with lossless performance, even during the burstiest network activity.
FAQs
What is the advantage of full packet capture over metadata capture for troubleshooting?
Full packet capture provides the complete headers and payloads, enabling precise reconstruction of network events. Metadata capture only offers partial visibility, but SentryWire’s architecture ensures high-fidelity recordings that help teams pinpoint exact issues and confirm what applications or data were impacted.
How does SentryWire help reduce the time to troubleshoot network issues?
SentryWire helps reduce troubleshooting time by enabling petabyte-scale searches in minutes. Engineers can rapidly isolate anomalies, replay traffic, and extract artifacts, ensuring faster root-cause analysis compared to traditional tools limited by partial logging or slow query performance.
Can full packet capture solutions scale to large enterprise networks?
Full packet capture can scale when backed by advanced architecture. SentryWire supports capture from 1Mbps to +1Tbps, with expandable nodes and over 100PB storage capacity, making it viable for enterprise networks and deployments without the usual cost and performance trade-offs.
How does SentryWire improve visibility into long-term network history for troubleshooting?
SentryWire improves visibility by storing weeks, months, or years of traffic at a fraction of traditional system costs. This extended timeline ensures analysts can investigate breaches or performance issues long after they occur, even across the 146-day average breach detection gap.
How cost-effective is SentryWire compared to traditional troubleshooting platforms?
SentryWire is cost-effective because its unique capture and storage model delivers enterprise-grade visibility at less than half the cost of traditional systems. Customers report price points up to six times lower than legacy packet capture tools while gaining higher performance and retention
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