WhatsUp Gold: IT Infrastructure Monitoring Made Easy

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  Get real-time visibility into device health, application performance, and traffic flows.

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  AI-driven detection of advanced threats across hybrid-cloud networks, enabling faster investigation and automated response.

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Full IT Visibility and Security in One Platform

From infrastructure health to network performance, traffic analysis and advanced security insights, Progress® WhatsUp® Gold software delivers unified network monitoring for your entire IT environment. Experience unmatched out-of-the-box functionality.

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Unified Monitoring for Availability, Performance and Protection

Go beyond traditional network monitoring with unified infrastructure visibility, deep traffic analytics, and intelligent threat detection — all designed to keep your business running securely and smoothly

Infrastructure, Performance & Traffic Monitoring

• Network Mapping
• Network Monitoring
• Virtualization Monitoring
• Wireless Networks
• Log Management
• Configuration Management
• Resources/Services Monitoring

• End-user Experience Monitoring
• Troubleshooting and Forensics
• Forecasting and Capacity Planning
• Netflow / IPFIX monitoring
• Application performance monitoring

Threat Detection and Response

• Network Threat Detection and Response
• Encrypted Traffic Analysis
• Threat Hunting
• Forensic Analysis
• Unknown and Insider Threat Detection

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More Than Monitoring — Unified Performance and Security

Unified Infrastructure Monitoring

Monitor servers, network devices, applications, and cloud resources from a single, centralized dashboard. Minimize the complexity of juggling multiple tools and gain a holistic view of your entire IT environment. With unified network monitoring, you can quickly identify issues across hybrid infrastructures and respond before they impact users.

Advanced Network Performance Analytics

Track bandwidth utilization, latency, and traffic patterns in real time to uncover bottlenecks and optimize capacity. WhatsUp Gold network performance monitoring provides actionable insights that help you maintain peak performance and meet SLAs without guesswork. Proactive analytics confirm that your network is ready for growth and resilient against congestion.

Compliance-Ready Log Management

WhatsUp Gold Log Management brings device log information to your fingertips. You can gather Windows event logs and syslogs, manage customizable dashboards and trigger alerts on specified conditions. Configure log searches and export the results automatically or on demand. Archive logs for regulatory compliance or to preserve historic data. Simplify your job by making logs a part of your network issue diagnosis process.

Interactive Network Mapping

Visualize your entire network with dynamic Layer 2/3 topology maps that update automatically. See device relationships, dependencies, and status at a glance to accelerate troubleshooting and reduce mean time to resolution.

Intelligent Threat Detection

Go beyond basic monitoring with AI-driven anomaly detection that identifies suspicious activity and lateral movement inside your network. Integrated security insights allow you to detect threats early and correlate performance anomalies with potential breaches.

Discover Your Network

WhatsUp Gold’s powerful layer 2/3 discovery results in a detailed interactive map of your entire networked infrastructure. Monitor and map everything from the edge to the cloud including devices, wireless controllers, servers, virtual machines, applications, traffic flows and configurations across Windows, LAMP and Java environments.

Built for IT Teams Who Demand Zero Downtime

12,000,000+

Devices Monitored

25,000+

Customers Globally

30+

Years in Business

From Reactive to Proactive IT Monitoring

Don’t wait for problems to disrupt your business — catch them before they happen. WhatsUp Gold infrastructure monitoring solution empowers IT teams with real-time insights, predictive analytics, and automated workflows that keep your infrastructure healthy and secure.

• Predict Issues Before They Impact Users

  Spot performance anomalies and capacity trends early to avoid outages and slowdowns.

• Automate Preventive Actions

  Trigger scripts and policies that resolve common issues automatically, reducing manual intervention.

• Correlate Performance and Security Events

  Detect unusual patterns and threats proactively, minimizing risk and downtime.

Intelligent IT infrastructure monitoring with WhatsUp Gold

Application Performance

Easily monitor the performance of Linux systems, Apache web servers and Microsoft applications.

Monitor Applications

Bandwidth Consumption

Analyze bandwidth consumption across networks, servers, applications and more.

Monitor Bandwidth

Cloud-based Resources

WhatsUp Gold gives you comprehensive visibility and control of AWS and Azure cloud environments

Monitor the Cloud

Network Performance

WhatsUp Gold helps you find and fix problems before your users are impacted.

Monitor Network Performance

Hyper-V and VMware

Get powerful visibility to physical, Hyper-V and VMware environments.

Monitor Virtual Environments

Wireless Networks

WhatsUp Gold can visualize and assure the performance of your wireless networks.

Monitor Wireless Networks

Proactive Network Analytics for Hybrid Environments

Holistic Visibility

Optimize performance and prevent bottlenecks before they impact users. Gain complete insight into user experience, network health, and capacity trends for more intelligent planning and faster troubleshooting.

Universal Data Support

Simplify integration and maintain visibility across diverse environments. Process network telemetry data in all major formats — NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, jFlow, NetStream for maximum compatibility.

Hybrid Environment Ready

Normalize and analyze data across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures without blind spots. Adapt monitoring to your operational needs.

Enterprise Scalability

Grow confidently with a solution that scales as you do. From small networks to global architectures, scale network monitoring without complexity or unexpected cost surprises.

High-Speed Processing

React faster and keep your network resilient under any load. Handle massive data volumes with industry-leading performance for real-time insights.

Actionable Performance Insights

Transform raw flow data into meaningful intelligence for troubleshooting and capacity planning. Identify trends, pinpoint root causes, and optimize resources with precision.

Integrated Security Intelligence for Your Network

AI-Powered Detection

Detect anomalies and threats using an advanced AI/ML engine and catch sophisticated attacks before they spread.

Threat Intelligence Feeds

Stay ahead with curated intelligence from commercial and community sources.

Automated Evidence Capture

Never lose vital evidence during an attack. Trigger full packet capture on detection to preserve critical data for investigation.

Robust Attack Analysis

Respond faster and reduce security risk. Understand every suspicious event in full context and act decisively with detailed forensic insights.

WhatsUp Gold Earns High Marks in Latest G2 Report

WhatsUp Gold has been recognized as an industry leading network monitoring tool in the recent G2 Grid Report for network monitoring solutions winning 17 total awards overall.

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Monitor Remote Sites - Distributed Edition

WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition provides scalable and secure network management and monitoring of any number of remote sites from a centralized NOC. No matter how many locations you have, the Distributed Edition gives you accurate information on all your network installations, all the time.

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Learning & Resources

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Beyond the Dashboard: Integrating Network Monitoring with Your IT Ecosystem

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WhatsUp Gold 360 – Bridging The Hybrid-Cloud Gap

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Reveal Hidden Network Issues with Network Traffic Analysis Plus

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IT Infrastructure Monitoring for Dummies

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a network monitoring tool?

Network monitoring (also known as IT infrastructure monitoring) is an essential IT process used to identify, map, and oversee computer networks and their components, such as routers, switches, servers, and firewalls. It enables network administrators to assess performance and enhance efficiency in real time.

What are the key benefits of WhatsUp Gold?

WhatsUp Gold enables productivity through out-of-the-box features and high levels of customizability. It offers complete visilibity, allowing administrators to monitor, measure and resolve network problems through one tool. WhatsUp Gold can also automate time consuming tasks to deliver high value per cost.

What are the four categories of network monitoring?

Performance monitoring: Performance monitoring assesses network health and identifies issues causing downtime. It scans, maps, and analyzes devices and applications to track metrics like latency, jitter, and throughput, enabling early issue detection and improved performance.

Availability monitoring:Availability monitoring tracks ports, systems, applications, services, and IP SLAs to prevent outages and ensure uptime

Traffic monitoring:Traffic monitoring analyzes network data to track usage, detect issues, and optimize performance, ensuring efficiency and security.

Security monitoring:Security monitoring is the continuous analysis of systems, networks, and data to detect threats, prevent breaches, and ensure compliance.

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