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Arista DMF and the Intelligent Visibility Advantage

Unify your visibility, accelerate your responsiveness, and future-proof your observability stack with Arista DANZ Monitoring Fabric, integrated and amplified by Intelligent Visibility’s expert-led, automation-first UIMF strategy.

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The Imperative
Network Modernization
What is Arista DMF
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Extending DMF
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Use Cases
The Imperative

Why Visibility Needs to Evolve

Traditional monitoring is reactive. It tells you what happened, after it’s already too late. But in today’s hybrid, campus, and multi-cloud environments, you need more: true observability that reveals what’s happening now, and why.

Arista DMF is built for this new reality—delivering clean, curated traffic to your security and monitoring tools from anywhere in your infrastructure

  • Monitoring tells you what happened; observability reveals why.
  • Hybrid and multi-cloud networks demand end-to-end visibility.
  • Traditional NPBs flood your tools with redundant or irrelevant data.
  • Security and performance rely on precision.
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What is Arista DMF

Software-Defined Scale-Out Observability

Arista DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF) is a software-defined, scale-out visibility solution that redefines what a network packet broker (NPB) can do. Built for the complexity of modern hybrid environments, DMF doesn’t just move packets — it transforms how network data is acquired, optimized, and delivered across your observability and security stack.

DMF is designed with:

  • Scale-out architecture (no proprietary chassis): Deploy as many nodes as needed
  • Zero-touch provisioning
  • Multi-tenant visibility: Give NetOps, SecOps, and CloudOps teams shared access to the same curated data
  • Advanced packet services: Intelligent traffic refinement through deduplication, packet slicing, header stripping, masking, and IPFIX/NetFlow generation
Learn More: Arista DMF vs Legacy Packet Brokers
OOB Observability with Arista DMF
Extending DMF with Intelligent Visibility

What Intelligent Visibility Adds:

Deploying Arista DMF is powerful, but without the right strategy, architecture, and integrations, it can become just another siloed tool. That’s where Intelligent Visibility changes the game.

We don’t just install DMF - we operationalize it as part of your larger observability and automation fabric. By aligning DMF with your tools, teams, and outcomes, we ensure you get real, measurable value from day one.

Through our Unified Infrastructure Management Fabric (UIMF) approach, we:

  • Integrate DMF into your AIOps, ITSM, and security ecosystems
  • Correlate DMF traffic with full-stack observability data
  • Deliver a co-managed, always-current operational model
  • Guide you from deployment through continuous optimization
Learn More: IVI's Approach to DMF
DMF Use Cases

Arista DMF Use Cases

Arista DMF, when paired with Intelligent Visibility’s integration and co-managed service approach, delivers tangible improvements across key operational and security domains:

  • Zero Trust enforcement with per-flow visibility? DMF enables deep East-West traffic inspection within data centers and across hybrid environments — allowing for precise microsegmentation and real-time policy validation. It’s the foundation for scalable, enforceable Zero Trust architectures.
  • Faster Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) for app slowness or outages? With optimized, deduplicated packet streams feeding directly into your monitoring and AIOps platforms, DMF helps pinpoint root cause — not just symptoms — accelerating diagnostics from hours to minutes.
  • Multi-domain visibility (campus + data center)? DMF spans across geographies and domains, ingesting and delivering traffic from any TAP, SPAN, or cloud mirror — providing a consistent visibility plane for both user access and application delivery paths.
  • Lower TCO by avoiding redundant tools? Absolutely. With DMF’s multi-tenant design and intelligent packet filtering, multiple teams can share the same visibility fabric without duplicating hardware or licenses. This consolidates tool spend, simplifies management, and drives down operational overhead.
Learn More: Reducing MTTR with DMF

 

“With DMF, our clients eliminate blind spots, align NetOps and SecOps, and operationalize Zero Trust without complexity.”

 

Your Visibility Strategy Starts Here

In today’s hybrid, high-velocity IT environments, visibility isn’t optional — it’s foundational. Arista DMF gives you the power to see and control every packet. Intelligent Visibility ensures that power translates into outcomes: faster resolution, stronger security, and smarter operations. Whether you’re modernizing your data center, extending Zero Trust, or just tired of flying blind, we’ll help you architect a visibility fabric that works — and evolves with you.

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