Progress Flowmon

What Progress Flowmon is

Progress Flowmon is a network and security monitoring platform for identifying threats and understanding network and application performance. Its Flowmon ADS analyzes traffic with behavior-analysis algorithms to find malicious activity, attacks, data breaches, and indicators of compromise, including within encrypted traffic. For network operations, it offers visibility, troubleshooting, capacity planning, dashboards, reports, root-cause analysis, and SLA measurement. Flowmon accepts flow formats including NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, jFlow, cflowd, NetStream, and RFC formats. It also supports cloud-native FlowLogs from Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. Integrations can connect it with network access control, authentication, firewall, and incident-response tools; a documented REST API is also available. Progress lists technology relationships or joint solutions involving Veeam, Fortinet, Check Point, Allied Telesis, Gigamon, Keysight, Dell, Garland Technology, Profitap, and Endace. Flowmon Collector and Probe come as virtual, cloud, or hardware appliances, and the deployment option is hybrid. Progress positions the platform for organizations ranging from small and midsize businesses to large enterprises. A free, expert-guided 30-day Proof of Concept is available through Progress or a certified partner. Final sizing and pricing follow that process, and purchases go through Progress’s partner network.

Who it suits

Flowmon may suit IT and security teams that need traffic-based threat detection alongside network troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance visibility. Its stated range of organization sizes makes it relevant to small and midsize businesses as well as large enterprises considering a hybrid deployment.

Limits

There is no free plan; access is offered through a free, expert-guided 30-day Proof of Concept. Final deployment sizing and pricing are provided after the Proof of Concept, and purchases go through Progress’s partner network.

Getting started

1. Visit https://www.progress.com/flowmon.
2. Contact Progress or a certified partner to arrange the free, expert-guided 30-day Proof of Concept.
3. Discuss deployment sizing and pricing after the Proof of Concept.
4. Purchase through Progress’s partner network and select a virtual, cloud, or hardware appliance deployment.

Verdict

Choose Progress Flowmon if you need network visibility and behavior-based security monitoring in one platform, with deployment options spanning virtual, cloud, and hardware appliances. It is less suited to buyers seeking a self-service purchase: Progress directs customers through a partner-led Proof of Concept before final sizing and pricing.