Cloud-Managed Networking with Cisco Meraki: February Product Power Hour Recap
Overview This month’s Product Power Hour delivered an action-packed session on Cloud-Managed Networking with Cisco Meraki! Attendees explored how Meraki’s intuitive dashboard, AI-powered insights, and security-first approach are transforming enterprise networks. Our product managers touched on integrating Meraki with LogicMonitor to enhance visibility, monitoring, and automation. From real-world use cases to expert-led demonstrations, this session showcased how organizations can simplify IT operations, boost security, and scale with confidence. Key Highlights ⭐ Cloud-First Network Management: How Meraki’s cloud-driven approach ensures seamless connectivity and ease of use. ⭐ Meraki & LogicMonitor Integration: Enhancing network visibility, alerting, and automation for proactive monitoring. ⭐ Meraki Dashboard Demonstration: AI-powered analytics, automation capabilities, and real-time network monitoring. ⭐ Security and Scalability Best Practices: Strategies for securing enterprise networks while optimizing performance. Q&A Q: How does Meraki handle security at scale? A: Meraki employs AI-driven threat detection, adaptive security policies, and seamless integration with Cisco SecureX. Q: Can Meraki support hybrid cloud environments? A: Yes, Meraki solutions integrate with hybrid cloud architectures, providing unified visibility and control across environments. Q: How does the integration with LogicMonitor improve monitoring? A: LogicMonitor enables deeper visibility into Meraki networks, proactive alerting, and automated insights for performance optimization. Q: What are the advantages of using Meraki over traditional networking solutions? A: Benefits include simplified management, zero-touch provisioning, AI-driven automation, and built-in security features. Q: Will future features include expanded Webhook integration beyond Meraki? A: Yes, future enhancements aim to extend Webhook support across additional platforms. Customer Call-outs 🌟 "This is cool and handy for troubleshooting API issues." What’s Next 🚀 March Product Power Hour: A deep dive into best practices, troubleshooting tips, and the latest enhancements of LM Collectors with our Product Manager, Craig Phelps. Register today to save your spot. 💻 Virtual User Groups: Join us for our first LM Community Virtual User Group series, where you'll hear from fellow LogicMonitor customers about their hybrid observability journey. Register for your preferred region below! LM User Group | AMER East - Mar 20 LM User Group | AMER West - Mar 20 LM User Group | APAC - Mar 27 LM User Group | EMEA - Mar 27 🌎 Elevate Community Conference: Join us in Dallas, TX, Sydney, AUS, and London, UK, to gain strategic insights, hands-on product experience, and exclusive networking opportunities. Elevate 2025 will showcase the latest innovations in AI-powered observability, empowering enterprises to optimize their modern data centers. Find more details and registration links here! Additional Resources If you missed any part of the session or want to revisit the content, we’ve got you covered: Review the slide deck here Want to see the full session? Watch the recording below ⬇️
Needed Features for Network Topology Mapping
We need the ability to create topology map of our switches and routers showing the actual links between interfaces on the devices and showing the latest InMbps / OutMbps datapoints for each interface. The goal is to have a live network map for networks like Internet Service Provider networks, to be able to visualize the active state of the network and the bandwidth utilization and alert status of each device and interface / link. We need to be able to do the following: - Manually add the switch and router resources to the map. - Once the resource is on the map, click on the resource on the map and select an interface instance from the "network interfaces" LogicModule to add to a "Link". Then drag over to, or select, the connected resource, and select the associated interface instance from the "network interfaces" LogicModule on the second device. - This will visually show a link between the two devices, and the InMbps and/or OutMbps datapoints should be displayed over the link on each end of the link. - The color of each half or end of the link should also change based on the highest active alert level for the associated "network interfaces" instance on that end of the link. So for example, If we have Router1 interface GigEth0/1 connected to Router2 GigEth0/2, and Router1 GigEth0/1 has an active warning level alert for InBroadcastPkts, then that half of the line representing the link, should turn to yellow. - It's not enough to simply outline the resource with a color based on the alert level of the resource. We need to visually see each desired interface / link on the map and see visually which interface(s) is/are alerting. LogicMonitor has done an absolutely outstanding job of giving us immense flexibilty in how we can represent any datapoint on widgets on dashboards. But when it comes to the Topology mapping, we’re severely limited in how we can represent the exact same datapoints visually on the map. Also, for these kind of use-cases, people managing these kinds of network generally already know how their devices are connected, or can easily identify the connectivity. We don’t really need LogicMonitor to automatically detect connections between devices, because that’s too big of a challenge to automate that well. We just need to be able to manually say, “This interface on this device connects to this interface on this device. That’s a link.” The link itself is actually comprised of two sides, each being an instance on the resource’s LogicModule. And it could be “Interfaces 64 bit” or “Network Interfaces” or whatever other LogicModule we need. When we make w widget, we can select whatever LogicModule and Instance we need. We should be able to do the same thing on the topology map.Ability to group interface instances
Hello, We would like to have the possibility of group interface instance(s) [from different devices/clients]. As an MSP we have the need of creating common thresholds for certain types of interfaces we want to group, reports, dashboards, etc... Within LM we aren't able to group instances from multiple devices/clients. Can this be implemented? Regards,
