Broadcom announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud on the new Cloud Network Insights service enabled by AppNeta by Broadcom. Cloud Network Insights provides end-to-end network observability to help organizations manage application and network experience, detect issues, and diagnose root causes across complex, multi-cloud, hybrid, and agentic environments. Google Cloud developed the service as a first-party offering exclusively for Google Cloud users, integrating Broadcom’s network insights with Google Cloud’s scale.
The service addresses observability needs for modern workloads, including AI and agents, that use cross-cloud strategies spanning multiple clouds, on-premises environments, SaaS services, internet-facing applications, and high-performance networking infrastructure. Traditional monitoring tools often provide limited visibility beyond the customer-managed network.
Key capabilities of Cloud Network Insights include:
- Network Experience Monitorin: End-to-end network path visibility to monitor critical network metrics that may impact applications and determine whether issues are application- or network-related.
- Application and Agent Experience Monitoring: Monitoring of agent and application experience and performance across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments in one place.
- Network Diagnostics and Insights: Reduction of Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) by isolating issues and determining whether the impact originates from the network or application.
The service supports proactive actions through synthetic transaction monitoring to identify SaaS and web application issues before they affect users. It improves operator efficiency by helping teams isolate sources of issues in Google Cloud or third-party networks without requiring all teams to become network experts.
“As organizations increasingly deploy critical agents and applications across complex multi-cloud and on-premises environments, agent, application, and network observability has never been more crucial,” said Rob Enns, VP and General Manager of Cloud Networking, Google Cloud. “By bringing AppNeta’s comprehensive observability technologies into our Cloud Network Insights product, we are equipping customers with the end-to-end insights they need to proactively optimize agent, application, and network experiences and rapidly pinpoint network bottlenecks.”
“As a longtime Google Cloud partner, we are excited to support Cloud Network Insights to help Google Cloud users monitor and manage distributed agents, applications, and networks more effectively. AppNeta offers proven network performance monitoring and operates with a small footprint, making it an efficient and powerful choice for users,” said Serge Lucio, VP and General Manager, Agile Operations Division, Broadcom.
“At Broadcom, our global workforce depends on seamless connectivity to a mix of on-premises and cloud-based applications. We rely on the AppNeta technology behind Cloud Network Insights to gain granular visibility into that traffic, allowing our IT teams to isolate network issues from application issues immediately. It is exciting to expand this capability with Google Cloud to help customers gain access to this same level of observability to optimize their own cross-cloud environments,” said Alan Davidson, CIO, Broadcom.
Cloud Network Insights powered by AppNeta by Broadcom is available now through Google Cloud.
