Competencies: Observability > Network Monitoring
Network Monitoring
Body of Knowledge
| Topic | Description | Relevance | Career Tracks |
|---|---|---|---|
Network Monitoring |
Infrastructure visibility; SNMP polling, syslog collection, NetFlow/sFlow analysis, alerting, dashboards, capacity planning |
Critical |
SRE, Network Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer |
SNMP Monitoring |
MIBs, OIDs, SNMP v2c/v3, polling strategies, traps |
High |
Network Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer |
NetFlow/sFlow |
Flow collection, traffic analysis, bandwidth monitoring, top talkers |
High |
Network Engineer, Security Analyst |
Network Topology |
Discovery, mapping, visualization, dependency tracking |
Medium |
Network Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer |
Synthetic Monitoring |
Ping, HTTP checks, DNS checks, global probes, uptime monitoring |
High |
SRE, Network Engineer |
Packet Capture |
Wireshark, tcpdump, packet analysis, troubleshooting |
High |
Network Engineer, Security Analyst |
Network Performance |
Latency, jitter, packet loss, QoS monitoring, WAN optimization |
High |
Network Engineer, SRE |
Device Health |
CPU, memory, interface errors, environmental monitoring |
High |
Network Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer |
Network Alerting |
Threshold alerts, anomaly detection, event correlation, escalation |
High |
Network Engineer, SRE |
Personal Status
| Topic | Level | Evidence | Active Projects | Gaps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Network Monitoring |
Intermediate |
SNMP polling, syslog collection; Wazuh agent deployment on network-adjacent hosts; basic Grafana dashboards |
No LibreNMS/Zabbix/PRTG at scale, no NetFlow/sFlow analysis |