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Community Blog Exploring Network Intelligence Service (NIS) - Simplifying Network Management on Alibaba Cloud

Exploring Network Intelligence Service (NIS) - Simplifying Network Management on Alibaba Cloud

This blog post delves into the features of NIS and explains how it can make your network management experience smoother and more efficient.

By Hermansyah Nugroho Nurokhim, Technical Account Manager

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, efficient network management is crucial for ensuring optimal performance, security, and reliability. Alibaba Cloud's Network Intelligence Service (NIS) stands out as a powerful tool designed to simplify and enhance network management for users. This blog post delves into the features of NIS and explains how it can make your network management experience smoother and more efficient.

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What is Network Intelligence Service (NIS)?

Network Intelligence Service (NIS) is a cloud service that monitors the health status and performance of networks, performs diagnostics and troubleshoots errors, and analyzes and measures network traffic. NIS is integrated with Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) methods such as machine learning and knowledge graphs to simplify network management and implement automated operations and maintenance (O&M). NIS allows network architects and O&M engineers to design and use networks with higher efficiency.

Key Features

Monitoring and inspection:

● Event center

Enables resource monitoring based on events, allowing you to identify resources exposed to potential risks and configure alert rules for specific scenarios. This proactive approach ensures timely response to events, helping safeguard your business operations.

  • Risk and issue notification
  • Automated O&M

● Inspection report

Allows you to configure inspection policies based on instances, paths, and events to obtain health reports on cloud networks and suggestions on handling exceptions.

  • Automatic periodic inspection tasks
  • Quick detection of exceptions

Self-service diagnostics:

● Instance diagnostics

Analyzes the configurations and the status of instances in real time, and provides suggestions on how to fix anomalies.

  • Exception diagnostics within a few clicks
  • Quick intelligent identification
  • Solution provision

● Reachability analyzer

Analyzes the network connectivity between a source and a destination, and diagnoses issues caused by incorrect network configurations. Identifies the location where the network connection issue occurs and the reason why the issue occurs if the destination is unreachable.

  • Self-service reachability diagnostics
  • Visualized connection topology
  • Suitable for multiple scenarios

Networking and traffic:

● Insight provider

Analyzes the real-time status of business traffic, helps you learn about business network errors in a timely manner, and provides data about network quality assessment and event impact analysis, see work with the insight provider.

  • Evaluation of business-level network quality
  • Real-time monitoring of network status

● Network topology

Helps you quickly learn about the network architecture of Alibaba Cloud, verify network configurations, and perform centralized O&M on cloud network resources.

  • Quick understanding of network architecture
  • Identification of reachable networks
  • Centralized O&M on network resources

References:

Infrastructure performance:

● Network performance observation

Displays average latencies within Alibaba Cloud and between Alibaba Cloud and the Internet. This helps you select a suitable region or zone based on the latency data when you deploy services.

  • Real-time monitoring of network quality
  • Support for origin server address selection in the cloud

References:

Scenarios

Cloud Event Alerting:

  • Identifies and notifies users about exceptions related to Internet quality, cloud network instances, and traffic anomalies.
  • Displays event severity levels and statuses, enabling users to prioritize and address events efficiently based on their urgency and progress.
  • Offers actionable suggestions to resolve alert events, facilitating rapid issue troubleshooting.

Cloud Network Diagnostics:

  • Conducts rapid analysis of cloud network instances, diagnoses issues, and provides detailed results along with resolution recommendations.
  • Monitors real-time reachability of cloud networks, presenting visualized analysis outcomes.
  • Enhances troubleshooting and operational efficiency through self-service diagnostics and comprehensive network issue analysis.

Network Traffic Analysis:

  • Real-time Analysis: Detects current network anomalies promptly and identifies their root causes.
  • Historical Analysis: Examines past network traffic to diagnose and resolve historical issues.
  • Business Traffic Analysis: Evaluates business-related traffic scenarios to detect errors, assess network quality, and analyze the impact of events on operations.

Network Resource Topology:

  • Provides insights into the Alibaba Cloud network architecture and visualizes the relationships between cloud network resources and their overall structure.
  • Verifies network configurations, analyzes routing topologies, and ensures network accessibility aligns with operational requirements.
  • Centralizes operations and maintenance (O&M) for cloud network resources by offering tailored tools for resource management, attribute inspection, and troubleshooting.

Network Performance Observation:

  • Measures average latencies between regions within China or globally across different Internet Service Providers (ISPs), helping users choose optimal regions and ISPs for service deployment.

Benefits

Seamless Activation:

  • Network Intelligence Service (NIS) is immediately operational upon activation, requiring no additional resource configuration or setup.

Advanced Analytics:

  • Leverages an extensive operations and maintenance (O&M) event database to conduct in-depth analysis of network issues.

Uninterrupted Business Operations:

  • Collects instance status data without affecting business operations, ensuring that instance performance and workloads remain unaffected. The data collection process is entirely transparent to end users.

Comprehensive Scenario Support:

  • Provides monitoring and analysis across all potential scenarios, including Internet environments, hybrid clouds, multiple regions, and different Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) within the same region.

NIS access

You can access and manage NIS by using one of the following methods within your Alibaba Cloud account:

  • NIS console: provides web pages that allow you to perform interactive operations to observe and analyze cloud networks.
  • Alibaba Cloud SDKs: supports multiple programming languages, such as Java, Go, PHP, Python, C#, and C++.SDK
  • OpenAPI Explorer: allows you to retrieve and call API operations, and dynamically generates SDK sample code.

Conclusion

Alibaba Cloud's Network Intelligence Service is a testament to the power of AI in transforming network management. By harnessing the capabilities of NIS, businesses can not only safeguard their network health but also optimize their operations for better performance and reliability. As cloud networks become more complex, services like NIS will undoubtedly become indispensable tools for enterprises worldwide.

For a deeper dive into the specifics of NIS and how it can benefit your business, explore the detailed documentation provided by Alibaba Cloud.

FAQ

Offers solutions to common questions related to the Network Intelligence Service (NIS).

1

What is Network Intelligence Service (NIS)?

Network Intelligence Service (NIS) is a cloud service that monitors the health status and performance of networks, performs diagnostics and troubleshoots errors, and analyzes and measures network traffic. NIS is integrated with Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) methods such as machine learning and knowledge graphs to simplify network management and implement automated operations and maintenance (O&M). NIS allows network architects and O&M engineers to design and use networks with higher efficiency.

Key Features

Monitoring and inspection:

• Event center

Enables resource monitoring based on events, allowing you to identify resources exposed to potential risks and configure alert rules for specific scenarios. This proactive approach ensures timely response to events, helping safeguard your business operations.

• Risk and issue notification

• Automated O&M

• Inspection report

Allows you to configure inspection policies based on instances, paths, and events to obtain health reports on cloud networks and suggestions on handling exceptions.

• Automatic periodic inspection tasks

• Quick detection of exceptions

Self-service diagnostics:

• Instance diagnostics

Analyzes the configurations and the status of instances in real time, and provides suggestions on how to fix anomalies.

• Exception diagnostics within a few clicks

• Quick intelligent identification

• Solution provision

• Reachability analyzer

Analyzes the network connectivity between a source and a destination, and diagnoses issues caused by incorrect network configurations. Identifies the location where the network connection issue occurs and the reason why the issue occurs if the destination is unreachable.

• Self-service reachability diagnostics

• Visualized connection topology

• Suitable for multiple scenarios

Networking and traffic:

• Insight provider

Analyzes the real-time status of business traffic, helps you learn about business network errors in a timely manner, and provides data about network quality assessment and event impact analysis, see work with the insight provider.

• Evaluation of business-level network quality

• Real-time monitoring of network status

• Network topology

Helps you quickly learn about the network architecture of Alibaba Cloud, verify network configurations, and perform centralized O&M on cloud network resources.

• Quick understanding of network architecture

• Identification of reachable networks

• Centralized O&M on network resources

References:

Infrastructure performance:

• Network performance observation

Displays average latencies within Alibaba Cloud and between Alibaba Cloud and the Internet. This helps you select a suitable region or zone based on the latency data when you deploy services.

• Real-time monitoring of network quality

• Support for origin server address selection in the cloud

References:

Scenarios

Cloud Event Alerting:

• Identifies and notifies users about exceptions related to Internet quality, cloud network instances, and traffic anomalies.

• Displays event severity levels and statuses, enabling users to prioritize and address events efficiently based on their urgency and progress.

• Offers actionable suggestions to resolve alert events, facilitating rapid issue troubleshooting.

Cloud Network Diagnostics:

• Conducts rapid analysis of cloud network instances, diagnoses issues, and provides detailed results along with resolution recommendations.

• Monitors real-time reachability of cloud networks, presenting visualized analysis outcomes.

• Enhances troubleshooting and operational efficiency through self-service diagnostics and comprehensive network issue analysis.

Network Traffic Analysis:

• Real-time Analysis: Detects current network anomalies promptly and identifies their root causes.

• Historical Analysis: Examines past network traffic to diagnose and resolve historical issues.

• Business Traffic Analysis: Evaluates business-related traffic scenarios to detect errors, assess network quality, and analyze the impact of events on operations.

Network Resource Topology:

• Provides insights into the Alibaba Cloud network architecture and visualizes the relationships between cloud network resources and their overall structure.

• Verifies network configurations, analyzes routing topologies, and ensures network accessibility aligns with operational requirements.

• Centralizes operations and maintenance (O&M) for cloud network resources by offering tailored tools for resource management, attribute inspection, and troubleshooting.

Network Performance Observation:

• Measures average latencies between regions within China or globally across different Internet Service Providers (ISPs), helping users choose optimal regions and ISPs for service deployment.

Benefits

Seamless Activation:

• Network Intelligence Service (NIS) is immediately operational upon activation, requiring no additional resource configuration or setup.

Advanced Analytics:

• Leverages an extensive operations and maintenance (O&M) event database to conduct in-depth analysis of network issues.

Uninterrupted Business Operations:

• Collects instance status data without affecting business operations, ensuring that instance performance and workloads remain unaffected. The data collection process is entirely transparent to end users.

Comprehensive Scenario Support:

• Provides monitoring and analysis across all potential scenarios, including Internet environments, hybrid clouds, multiple regions, and different Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) within the same region.

NIS access

You can access and manage NIS by using one of the following methods within your Alibaba Cloud account:

• NIS console: provides web pages that allow you to perform interactive operations to observe and analyze cloud networks.

• Alibaba Cloud SDKs: supports multiple programming languages, such as Java, Go, PHP, Python, C#, and C++.SDK

• OpenAPI Explorer: allows you to retrieve and call API operations, and dynamically generates SDK sample code.

Conclusion

Alibaba Cloud's Network Intelligence Service is a testament to the power of AI in transforming network management. By harnessing the capabilities of NIS, businesses can not only safeguard their network health but also optimize their operations for better performance and reliability. As cloud networks become more complex, services like NIS will undoubtedly become indispensable tools for enterprises worldwide.

For a deeper dive into the specifics of NIS and how it can benefit your business, explore the detailed documentation provided by Alibaba Cloud.

FAQ

Offers solutions to common questions related to the Network Intelligence Service (NIS).

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