Network Automation & Monitoring
Intelligent automation and state-of-the-art monitoring that gives your operations team the visibility to resolve issues before they escalate and eliminate the manual work that drains resources.
- Ansible & AWX
- Icinga2
- Prometheus
- Grafana
Automation that saves thousands of hours.
NGN has built and deployed automation systems across large-scale telecommunications and enterprise environments, replacing time-consuming manual processes with reliable, repeatable automation that operates 24/7.
Using Ansible and AWX, we orchestrate fleets of Linux servers (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat), automating routine maintenance, configuration management, and deployment tasks at scale. Our network automation continuously refines processes to guarantee high availability and peak performance across mission-critical systems.
On the monitoring side, we design and implement state-of-the-art network monitoring solutions using Icinga2, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch, and InfluxDB, delivering real-time performance insights, accelerating fault detection, and enabling proactive resolution before issues escalate. All designed with security-first principles using HashiVault for secrets management.
Automation and monitoring impact
- Ansible automation for Linux server fleets: Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Red Hat
- Icinga2 and Prometheus monitoring with real-time alerting and intelligent thresholds
- Grafana dashboards giving NOC teams unprecedented operational visibility
- InfluxDB time-series and OpenSearch for log aggregation and search
- HashiVault for secure secrets management across all environments
- Custom in-house tools for automated core network infrastructure management
Automation & monitoring capabilities
Ansible & AWX Automation
Fleet-wide configuration management, automated deployments, and routine maintenance tasks orchestrated via Ansible playbooks and AWX workflows. Reduces manual intervention and ensures consistency across every host.
Icinga2 & Nagios Monitoring
Comprehensive service and host monitoring with Icinga2, including check plugins, escalation policies, notification routing, and integration with ticketing systems. Proactive alerts before users are impacted.
Prometheus Metrics & Alerting
Prometheus scraping, custom exporters, and alerting rules for infrastructure and application metrics. Alertmanager configuration for intelligent, actionable alerting with proper silencing and routing.
Grafana Dashboards
Comprehensive monitoring dashboards for real-time insights and data visualisation, designed for NOC teams, executives, and engineers. Custom panels, variables, and drill-downs for every audience.
OpenSearch & InfluxDB
Centralised log aggregation and search with OpenSearch. Time-series storage and analysis with InfluxDB for high-resolution metrics, retention policies, and continuous queries.
HashiVault Secrets Management
Secure, centralised secrets management across all environments. Dynamic secrets, PKI, and audit logging integrated with Ansible, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
Technologies & Tools
The automation and observability stack we build with.
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Ready to give your team real operational visibility?
Tell us about your current monitoring gaps and automation needs. We'll design a system that gives your team the insight to stay ahead of problems.
What can realistically be automated on a network?
Configuration deployment across a device fleet, compliance checking against a standard, firmware and patch rollout, backup of device configs, and onboarding a new site from a template. The goal is that a change is applied identically to two hundred devices rather than typed two hundred times.
How is this different from the monitoring we already have?
Most inherited monitoring alerts on causes such as CPU, memory or a process restart, and produces so much noise that people stop reading it. We build alerting around user-visible symptoms, so far fewer alerts fire and the ones that do are trusted.
Which monitoring stack do you use?
Icinga2, Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB and OpenSearch, chosen to fit the environment rather than as a fixed bundle. All are open source, so there is no per-device licensing and you are not locked in.
Can you fix alert fatigue without replacing our tools?
Usually yes. Alert fatigue is a design problem, not a tooling problem. We typically rebuild the alert set around what constitutes a genuine emergency for your business, which cuts paging alerts dramatically while improving real coverage.
Do you provide 24/7 monitoring?
Yes. Monitoring runs continuously, with alerting routed according to severity and the escalation path you want outside business hours.
Discuss your automation and monitoring requirements.
Describe your current environment and pain points. Our engineers will get back to you the same business day.
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