Key Takeaways
- Broadcom and Google Cloud announced an enhanced collaboration to launch Cloud Network Insights on April 22.
- AppNeta, Broadcom’s network monitoring platform, serves as the foundation for this new Google Cloud service.
- Cloud Network Insights offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities for hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.
- The platform delivers three key capabilities: end-to-end network experience tracking, application performance monitoring, and rapid network diagnostics.
- The solution is currently accessible to all Google Cloud customers.
On April 22, Broadcom (AVGO) and Google Cloud (GOOGL) announced a strengthened collaboration, with Broadcom’s AppNeta platform serving as the backbone of Google Cloud’s newly launched Cloud Network Insights offering.
Google Cloud developed Cloud Network Insights as a native, first-party solution designed specifically for its customer base. The platform leverages AppNeta’s proven network monitoring infrastructure to deliver enhanced visibility into application performance across fragmented, distributed computing environments.
The offering addresses a critical challenge facing modern IT operations teams. With enterprise workloads increasingly distributed across public clouds, private data centers, and various SaaS applications, conventional monitoring solutions often fail to provide comprehensive visibility beyond customer-controlled network boundaries.
Cloud Network Insights bridges this visibility gap through three fundamental capabilities. The platform provides comprehensive network experience monitoring with complete end-to-end pathway visualization. It enables thorough application and agent performance tracking across both cloud-based and on-premises systems. Additionally, it includes sophisticated network diagnostic tools that dramatically reduce the time required to differentiate between network-related and application-specific performance issues.
AppNeta’s Role in the Partnership
AppNeta represents Broadcom’s specialized solution for monitoring end-user experiences, purpose-built for cloud-native and SaaS application environments. The platform delivers comprehensive visibility into both network infrastructure and application performance across complex, difficult-to-monitor distributed systems.
Broadcom deploys AppNeta within its own operations to monitor network traffic flowing through its hybrid infrastructure combining on-premises and cloud-based systems. This practical, production-level deployment has directly informed the development and implementation of the Cloud Network Insights product offering.
Rob Enns, who serves as VP and General Manager of Cloud Networking at Google Cloud, emphasized that incorporating AppNeta’s observability capabilities empowers customers to “proactively optimize agent, application, and network experiences and rapidly pinpoint network bottlenecks.”
Serge Lucio, VP and General Manager of Broadcom’s Agile Operations Division, highlighted that this partnership enables Google Cloud customers to achieve more effective monitoring of their distributed applications and network infrastructure.
Rising Demand for Cross-Platform Network Observability
Today’s enterprise infrastructure landscape is increasingly complex and fragmented. Organizations operate workloads across multiple public cloud platforms, private infrastructure, and an expanding ecosystem of SaaS applications. Achieving unified monitoring visibility across these diverse environments has remained a significant operational challenge.
Cloud Network Insights seeks to address this complexity by aggregating comprehensive network performance data for distributed cloud applications into a single unified view. The solution delivers visibility across all infrastructure layers, extending beyond Google Cloud’s directly managed infrastructure.
Alan Davidson, serving as Broadcom’s CIO, emphasized that the organization depends on AppNeta to assist internal IT operations teams in quickly identifying whether performance issues originate from network infrastructure or application-level problems — a diagnostic task that becomes increasingly difficult as infrastructure complexity grows.
Broadcom’s AVGO stock gained 0.91% on the announcement date. Google’s GOOGL shares advanced 1.38%.
Cloud Network Insights powered by AppNeta by Broadcom is currently available for deployment through the Google Cloud platform.
