> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.nxtsight.com/llms.txt
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# nxtRadar — Observability & Network Monitoring

> Unified metrics, traces, and network health across compute, network, and applications with topology-aware alerting.

nxtRadar is the NxtSight observability and network-monitoring platform. It brings metrics, traces, and health signals from compute, network, and applications into a single plane, with topology-aware alerting that points at the cause rather than the symptom.

<Card title="nxtRadar on NxtSight.tech" icon="external-link" href="https://nxtsight.com/products/radar" color="#0b5ed7" horizontal>
  Product overview, editions, and datasheet
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## Documentation

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  <Card title="User Guide" icon="book-open" href="/services/monitoring/user-guide/dashboards" color="#0b5ed7">
    Dashboards, metrics, alert rules, and network monitoring
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  <Card title="Admin Guide" icon="settings" href="/services/monitoring/admin-guide/architecture" color="#0b5ed7">
    Architecture, agent configuration, metric collectors, and alert channels
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## Key Capabilities

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  <Card title="Total Visibility" icon="target">
    Metrics, traces, and health from compute, network, and applications in one plane.
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  <Card title="Topology-Aware" icon="network">
    Auto-discovered maps of the network and infrastructure, so alerts point at the real cause.
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  <Card title="Alert Before Impact" icon="bell">
    Threshold and anomaly alerting that surfaces degradation before users feel it.
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  <Card title="Open Telemetry" icon="database">
    Standards-based metrics and traces — no proprietary agent lock-in.
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## Platform Architecture

<Accordion title="Dashboards and alerting" icon="gauge" defaultOpen>
  Visualization, topology maps, and alert delivery. Built on Grafana.

  **NOC view · Topology map · Alerting**
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<Accordion title="Metrics and traces" icon="activity">
  Time-series storage and distributed tracing. Built on Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.

  **Metrics · Traces · Anomaly detection**
</Accordion>

<Accordion title="Collection" icon="download">
  Agents, SNMP polling, and exporters across the estate.

  **Agents · SNMP · Exporters**
</Accordion>

<Accordion title="Monitored infrastructure" icon="server">
  Compute, network, and application layers.

  **Servers · Switches · Services**
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## Editions

| Edition                   | Includes                                                            |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Managed Observability** | Metrics, traces, network monitoring, and alerting, operated for you |

<Info>
  nxtRadar is delivered as a managed service. Detection engineering, dashboard curation, and alert tuning are operated by NxtSight rather than handed over as software.
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## Related Products

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  <Card title="nxtLog" icon="file-text" href="/products/nxtlog" color="#0b5ed7">
    Centralized log management — the search and retention layer alongside nxtRadar metrics
  </Card>

  <Card title="nxtGuard" icon="shield" href="/products/nxtguard" color="#0b5ed7">
    SIEM and security operations, sharing the same collection layer
  </Card>

  <Card title="Nxt Cloud Suite" icon="cloud" href="/products/cloud-suite" color="#0b5ed7">
    nxtRadar monitors workloads running on the Nxt Cloud Suite private cloud platform
  </Card>
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## Next Steps

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  <Card title="Monitoring Service" icon="activity" href="/services/monitoring/index" color="#0b5ed7">
    Full service documentation, CLI reference, and configuration
  </Card>

  <Card title="Grafana Integration" icon="chart-line" href="/integrations/grafana" color="#0b5ed7">
    Connect existing Grafana instances and import NxtSight dashboards
  </Card>
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