Modern networks generate rapidly growing volumes of traffic as applications, automated workflows, and Al initiatives all compete for the same infrastructure. Every new workload and every agent action adds dependencies most teams can't see. When network visibility is incomplete, Al initiatives inherit that blind spot, and teams can't verify what's actually happening on the wire. Al's success now rests on the same network infrastructure NetOps has struggled to fully observe for years.
The challenge
Networks have become distributed, hybrid, and multi-vendor: SD-WAN, SASE, data center, edge, and cloud, each with its own telemetry format. Al applications and agents now ride on top of that infrastructure, adding new traffic patterns and dependencies every week. NetOps teams sit in different tools than SecOps and app teams, each with a partial view. When an application slows down or an agent misbehaves, no one can prove whether the network caused it.
Tool sprawl compounds the problem. Every new initiative, from a cloud migration to a new Al platform, adds another collector, another exporter, another dashboard. Senior engineers spend their time nursing pipelines instead of designing for resiliency. Network data is high-volume and comes in different formats, so collecting, indexing, and analyzing it in traditional tools isn't sustainable. Teams either drop data and accept the risk, or over-collect and blow out their budget.
The solution
Gigamon inspects traffic across physical, virtual, hybrid, and cloud environments. Using Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI), it turns raw packets into verified, network-derived intelligence. That intelligence identifies applications, protocols, and session behavior no flow record alone can show. It becomes the independent evidence NetOps needs when an outage lands on their desk.
Cribl brings that Gigamon telemetry, including NetFlow, SNMP, and streaming telemetry from routers, switches, and SD-WAN edges, together with syslog and other sources like AWS VPC flow logs. Pipelines enrich, reduce, and route the result to NPM tools, SIEMs, observability platforms, and cost-effective storage. Cribl Lakehouse Engines make that data available for high-frequency queries, so it can reach tools, agents, or humans as needed. No team is stuck waiting on a copy that was never sent
to them.
That telemetry is governed, enriched, and Al-ready by design. The same data that resolves a NetOps incident today can safely feed the Al agents and models running tomorrow. Cribl and Gigamon engineers built an app on the Cribl Al Platform for Telemetry that puts this to work. It maps dependencies, flags shadow Al, and launches Al-driven root-cause investigations from a single pane.
The benefits
FASTER ROOT-CAUSE RESOLUTION
When something breaks, NetOps, SecOps, and SRE teams pull from the same enriched telemetry instead of hopping between consoles. A visual dependency map shows whether the issue sits in the network, the application, or DNS. The Findings tab's Al investigation feature correlates the data automatically, cutting the "prove it's not the network" cycle short.
LOWER MONITORING ANDTELEMETRY COSTS
Cribl reduces and routes network telemetry before it reaches expensive backends, often cutting volume by over 50% while preserving signal. Full-fidelity history lands in Cribl Lake instead of premium indexes. Cribl Lakehouse Engines let teams query that data directly instead of sending it to full-priced observability and security tools. Teams keep the data they need for rare incidents without paying to store all of it upfront.
AIINITIATIVESBUILTONTRUSTED NETWORK DATA
Al depends on the network underneath it, and that network needs to be visible to be trusted. Gigamon's AMI records identify shadow Al running outside policy, closing a gap policy alone can't cover. With telemetry that's normalized, enriched, governed, and readily available, both people and Al agents can act on network data with confidence.
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Cribl and Gigamon plug into the network and tools already in place. No rip-and-replace, no new agents to deploy across the environment. Get started with a free trial today!
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Al's success depends on a network that's actually visible. Gigamon and Cribl give NetOps, SecOps, and Al teams one governed, trusted telemetry foundation instead of guesswork. Talk to your Cribl or Gigamon account team
to see the joint solution in action.
ABOUT GIGAMON
Gigamon is a deep observability company that extracts network-derived telemetry from physical, virtual, and cloud traffic and delivers it to security, observability, and Al platforms. Its Deep Observability Pipeline helps organizations close visibility gaps, strengthen security, and manage hybrid cloud infrastructure
with confidence. Learn more at gigamon.com.
