Gaining Full Path Visibility in Hybrid Cloud Networks
In the modern enterprise, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) plays a foundational role in connecting distributed networks. It is the routing protocol that governs how traffic moves between different networks, like from your on-prem data center to the cloud. In hybrid environments, BGP acts as the trusted bridge between your internal infrastructure and external cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
But for most network teams, that bridge is also where visibility ends.
As enterprises embrace hybrid architectures, managing and troubleshooting traffic that traverses on-prem routers, cloud gateways, and virtual machines becomes increasingly complex. Once traffic crosses into the cloud via BGP peering, landing in a VPC or VNet, it often disappears from view.
Where does it go next? How do you trace a path that spans routers, firewalls, load balancers, and virtual NICs? How do you resolve issues that jump across team boundaries, from NetOps, to SREs, to CloudOps?
This is the new visibility gap. And its one that NetBrain was purpose-built to close.
The Problem: BGP Handoff and the Cloud Visibility Gap
Traditional network tools can trace traffic up to the BGP handoff—where an enterprise router peers with a cloud gateway—but lose visibility beyond that point. Once inside the cloud, traffic navigates internal route tables, security layers, and service hops, eventually landing on instances, containers, or virtual services. Most teams have no way to see or validate this journey end to end.
Troubleshooting across this boundary often forces NetOps, SREs, and CloudOps to operate with fragmented, incomplete data.
The result:
Escalation delays: NetOps can’t prove it’s not the network.
War room frustration: No one has the full picture.
SLA risk: Root cause takes too long to find.
The Solution: End-to-End Visibility from Edge to Virtual NIC
NetBrain delivers full path observability—from on-prem BGP peering through cloud-native infrastructure to the virtual NICs inside VMs and containers. Unlike traditional tools, NetBrain natively supports hybrid architectures across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments, offering real-time visibility into both physical and virtual infrastructure.
This observability also extends to SDN and SD-WAN environments such as Cisco ACI, VMware NSX-T, VeloCloud, and Cisco Viptela, further enabling NetBrain to support the many forms of BGP-based routing found in modern hybrid networks. These architectures often coexist alongside public cloud in the enterprise, and NetBrain unifies visibility across them all.
Using dynamic discovery, real-time topology mapping, and intent-based automation, NetBrain enables teams to visualize, validate, and diagnose the complete traffic journey—regardless of where it begins or ends.
Platform Capabilities:
Auto-discovers hybrid infrastructure including routers, firewalls, virtual gateways, cloud-native components, and Kubernetes Pods and Services.
Visualizes complete traffic paths across the enterprise and cloud—from physical routers to virtual NICs and beyond.
Diagnoses performance and connectivity issues using no-code, intent-based diagnostics and AI-driven recommendations.
Supports collaborative visibility with live, interactive maps and dashboards designed for NetOps, SREs, and CloudOps.
Enforces Golden Paths and Configuration Compliance to ensure hybrid networks behave as intended.
Protects change operations with pre-, during-, and post-change validation through Triple Defense Automation.
Use Case: Diagnosing a Performance Issue in AWS
A user reports slow access to a SaaS application hosted in AWS, a scenario that could impact hundreds of employees and customer-facing services. The path begins in the corporate office, moves through a physical router, peers via BGP into a cloud Transit Gateway, flows through internal route tables and firewalls, and finally lands on an EC2 instance in AWS.
Without NetBrain, the network team hits a wall. They can only see up to the BGP edge. After that, it is guesswork, and troubleshooting requires help from SREs or cloud teams just to trace the path.
With NetBrain:
The entire path is automatically mapped from start to finish.
Every hop, including cloud-native and hybrid components, is visualized in a real-time topology.
Automated diagnostics test connectivity, latency, and routing behavior.
The root cause—a misconfigured security group—is isolated in minutes.
The result: No war room. No finger pointing. Just shared visibility and fast resolution.
Why It Matters
Hybrid network complexity is now the norm, not the exception. As enterprises stretch across data centers, clouds, and containerized workloads, the need for unified visibility becomes critical. Traditional tools stop at the edge. NetBrain goes further.
BGP may connect your network to the cloud, but NetBrain connects your teams to the truth by making the full journey observable, diagnosable, and automation enabled.
If your teams are ready for real-time answers instead of reactive escalation, it’s time to look beyond BGP. It’s time to see your entire network with NetBrain.
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