Monitoring Beyond SNMP: Turning Your Network Into a Sensor
Cisco, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
Cisco argues rich telemetry and AI-driven assurance should replace legacy SNMP polling for network monitoring.
Cisco makes the case for moving network monitoring beyond SNMP and turning the network itself into a sensor.
The post argues that for many IT teams the promise of data-driven operations is drowned out by alert fatigue, and that organisations still relying on legacy tools from the Nagios era of reactive polling continue to struggle.
It advocates rich telemetry, unified visibility and AI-driven assurance as the basis for what Cisco calls AgenticOps. The emphasis is on transforming collected data into action rather than simply gathering more of it. The piece is authored by Shai Silberman.