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    September 3, 2025

    Weaving AppNeta Experience Insights into DX NetOps: A Step-by-Step Guide

    10 min read

    Key Takeaways
    • Find out about improved capabilities for bringing AppNeta intelligence into DX NetOps.
    • See how a global organization used this integration to respond to a critical issue.
    • View step-by-step tips for getting this all up and running in your own environment.

    Today’s enterprise networks aren’t constrained to a single location—they span continents, clouds, and providers, and they’re relied upon by users who can work from anywhere. For network operations teams, that means every issue is a potential scavenger hunt. Is it the app? The WAN? The cloud provider? The ISP?

    The stakes are high and your tools need to evolve. That’s why the integration of DX NetOps and AppNeta is such a game-changer. It gives teams a unified view of what’s really happening—wherever it’s happening.

    For years, DX NetOps has been the go-to solution for monitoring modern data center networks—providing rich visibility, real-time insights, and scalable support for even the most complex infrastructures.

    But today’s IT ecosystems aren’t confined to the data center. They’re cloud-first, hybrid, global, and fast-moving. You’re dealing with remote users, SaaS apps, cloud service providers, and third-party networks. That’s where AppNeta comes in—extending visibility far beyond your four walls into ISP and cloud provider territory.

    So, what’s even better than having both DX NetOps and AppNeta in your toolset? Bringing them together in a single, unified view.

    Thanks to recently improved integration capabilities, achieving that unified visibility isn’t just possible—it’s simple. This is a big win for network operations teams who are under pressure to move fast, solve problems before they escalate, and deliver flawless user experiences.

    In this post, we’ll break down what this combined power looks like in practice. You’ll get:

    • A quick look at both tools and how they complement each other.
    • A real-world scenario of how a global organization used this integration to respond to a critical issue.
    • Step-by-step tips for getting this all up and running in your own environment.

    Let’s dive in.

    Meet Network Observability by Broadcom

    Network Observability by Broadcom delivers end-to-end network visibility and actionable insights that help operations teams keep services available, optimally performing, and aligned with user expectations.

    It’s powered by two key products: DX NetOps and AppNeta. Let’s take a quick look at what each one brings to the table.

    DX NetOps: Built for scale and complexity

    DX NetOps delivers unified, scalable network monitoring across both traditional and modern environments—including SDN, cloud, and virtual infrastructure. It helps you monitor everything from routers and switches to APIs and microservices.

    With DX NetOps, you can:

    • Detect issues early.
    • Monitor performance trends.
    • Drill into root causes quickly.
    • Correlate alarms across layers and domains.

    AppNeta: See the entire digital path

    AppNeta is all about going beyond your own network. It provides active monitoring from the end-user perspective—measuring performance across every hop of a network path, including those that span ISP, cloud, and SaaS vendor networks.

    Unlike passive monitoring tools that wait for something to go wrong, AppNeta actively tests the network and pinpoints exactly where issues originate.

    AppNeta delivers these key features:

    • Continuous active synthetic network monitoring combined with application monitoring.
    • Hop-by-hop visibility across internet and cloud paths.
    • Real-time measurement of network health and app experience.
    • Alerts tied to thresholds or performance anomalies.

    AppNeta Experience: Layer 7 insights that cut through noise

    One standout component is AppNeta Experience, which focuses on Layer 7 synthetic monitoring—giving you insight into the actual user experience within web applications.

    With the product, you move beyond determining whether the network is up. You can ascertain if users can reach the login screen, whether they can they sign in, if they can browse and add an item to a shopping cart, and more.

    AppNeta Experience uses Selenium-based scripts to simulate real user behavior at the application layer. It does this from multiple monitoring points across your network, so you can:

    • Distinguish between app issues and network problems.
    • Test every step of critical user workflows.
    • Correlate issues to specific servers, browsers, or geographic locations.

    The best part? All this data can be fed directly into your DX NetOps Portal. That means you get a single pane of glass to troubleshoot the entire digital experience—across your infrastructure, your provider network, and the cloud.

    How it works in practice: Troubleshooting a performance issue

    So, how does this all come together? Let’s walk through a real-world troubleshooting scenario to show you how it works.

    Start at the NetOps alarm view

    Imagine you’re a network administrator and you get an alert that something’s off. You open up the DX NetOps alarm portal and immediately sort by impact.

    ESD_FY25_Academy-Blog.Weaving AppNeta Experience Insights into DX NetOps - A Step-by-Step Guide.Figure 1

    You see a web path violation—an alarm from AppNeta Experience saying that something in your application path has failed.

    ESD_FY25_Academy-Blog.Weaving AppNeta Experience Insights into DX NetOps - A Step-by-Step Guide.Figure 2

    Next, you click into the alarm and drill into the specific monitoring location. From there, you can see:

    • The response time has spiked during certain intervals.
    • The Apdex score (a measure of user experience) has dropped significantly.
    • Detailed step-by-step transaction data, from login to checkout.

    ESD_FY25_Academy-Blog.Weaving AppNeta Experience Insights into DX NetOps - A Step-by-Step Guide.Figure 3

    Slice your views however you need

    Next, you can filter the data by:

    • Network performance, including packet loss and latency.
    • Server response times.
    • Browser rendering times.

    In this case, network performance looks normal. No packet drops. No excessive latency. However, you can see server response times have suddenly shot up. Worse, the application is returning error pages right after login.

    Now you know: It’s not the network. It’s the application.

    You can hand this off to your app team—with full context, data, and screenshots—so they can dive into logs and fix the issue. No finger-pointing. No wasted time.

    You can also reference historical baselines to compare what “good” looked like last week, last month, or last year.

    Customer example: Global cosmetic company sees real results

    One global cosmetics manufacturer recently reaped the benefits of this integration—and it couldn’t have come at a better time.
    The company relies on a managed service provider (MSP) to run its SD-WAN environment, which connects 250 remote sites around the world. That setup offers great scale—but also introduces a major dependency. If something goes wrong in the provider’s network, critical services could suffer. What’s worse, without the right visibility, internal network operations teams could be left in the dark.

    A few weeks ago, an issue did arise in the MSP’s network. Suddenly, they noticed:

    • A dramatic drop in network capacity.
    • Widespread packet loss.
    • User complaints from across regions.

    Thanks to the combined power of DX NetOps and AppNeta Experience, the team was able to get a full view of the end-to-end network path—from branch office to MSP backbone to their own data center.

    ESD_FY25_Academy-Blog.Weaving AppNeta Experience Insights into DX NetOps - A Step-by-Step Guide.Figure 4

    With this visibility, they quickly ruled out any issues in the infrastructure they owned. Instead, they pinpointed the exact hops within the MSP network that were dropping packets.

    They didn’t just hand off a generic “something’s broken” ticket to their MSP. They gave them specific data points, including times and hop-by-hop performance metrics.

    That allowed the provider to fix the issue faster—and gave the cosmetics company the objective proof they needed to hold the provider accountable for their SLAs.

    Integration: How it works

    Through this integration, your teams can bring AppNeta Experience intelligence into DX NetOps. Once established, you can have alerts in DX NetOps that are based on this intelligence, and start to leverage unified troubleshooting capabilities, such as opening incident tickets and so on.

    Here’s an overview of the components involved, and how they intersect:

    • AppNeta is typically run as a SaaS solution.
    • DX NetOps Virtual Network Assurance (VNA) is used to collect data from AppNeta.
    • VNA connects to the tenant using the Rest API.
    • AppNeta runs transactions from monitoring points, which can be physical or virtual.
    • These monitoring points send SNMP traps to the fault management component, such as Spectrum within DX NetOps.

    In this way, you can start to see a complete picture, including inventory, fault, and performance details, all in one place.

    ESD_FY25_Academy-Blog.Weaving AppNeta Experience Insights into DX NetOps - A Step-by-Step Guide.Figure 5

    Here are the types of SNMP notifications that are supported:

    • Delivery, including network path violations, clear events, and change events.
    • Experience, including web path violations and clear events.
    • Monitoring points, including new, contact lost, or contact established events.

    Setting up the integration: How to bring it all together

    Now that you have an idea of the potential value, here’s how you can connect AppNeta and DX NetOps in your own environment. Integration is done within each product.  

    1. AppNeta

    In AppNeta, here are the steps to take:

    • Go to Settings > Alerting > Manage SNMP.
    • Define your primary and secondary monitoring points, which can be physical or virtual.
    • Choose your SNMP version, whether v2 or v3.
    • Enter the NMS host (the Spectrum servers) that will receive traps.
    • Define the delivery type and SNMP trap credentials.

    ESD_FY25_Academy-Blog.Weaving AppNeta Experience Insights into DX NetOps - A Step-by-Step Guide.Figure 6

    2. DX NetOps

    Next on the DX NetOps side, you configure the solution to receive alerts from AppNeta by taking the following steps:

    • Configure the AppNeta plug in.
    • Enter the host, protocol, authentication token, and domain you’re using.
    • Create an AppNeta admin model, plug in IP addresses of monitoring points, and configure them as trap senders.

    ESD_FY25_Academy-Blog.Weaving AppNeta Experience Insights into DX NetOps - A Step-by-Step Guide.Figure 7

    This process will be familiar to any users who have done other integrations via VNA.

    Conclusion

    As networks grow more complex and user connectivity extends far beyond the data center, traditional tools alone just aren’t enough. But when you bring DX NetOps and AppNeta Experience together, you gain total visibility—from core to cloud and everything between.

    With this visibility, you can skip the hunting and guesswork, troubleshoot faster, collaborate better, and deliver the kind of digital experiences your users expect. Whether you're running thousands of remote sites, relying on cloud providers, or managing SaaS-heavy environments, this integrated solution gives you the clarity and control you need.

    It’s no longer just about monitoring what you own. It’s about seeing and understanding everything that matters.

    To learn more, be sure to view our Small Bytes webcast, Integrate AppNeta Experience into DX NetOps. In addition, you can also access our MegaBytes page to see an extensive list of more in-depth solution demonstrations, including sessions that cover AppNeta and DX NetOps integration.

    Robert Kettles

    Robert Kettles started off as a field engineer at Cabletron Systems supporting LAN/WAN switching and routing solutions along with their relatively new network management platform: Spectrum. Over two decades later, he continues to help customers solve network fault and performance management challenges.

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