Aviatrix Systems Inc. today pulled back the curtains on CoPilot, a monitoring service aimed at making it easier for administrators to find issues in large corporate networks spanning multiple public clouds.

A company that has workloads scattered across multiple providers’ data centers needs to keep tabs on each deployment individually. Normally, that requires using several monitoring tools, which complicates administrators’ work.

Aviatrix says CoPilot makes it possible to keep an eye all the different cloud segments that make up a corporate network via a single interface. The service visualizes Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform resources in a high-level diagram that shows how the different deployments are linked. There are also other dashboards that provide a deeper view into specific aspects of network operations.

According to Aviatrix, CoPilot can visualize unusual activity such as a sudden surge in file transfers between cloud deployments. In the event of such a usage spike, engineers could consult the data from CoPilot to identify overloaded network paths and offload some of the traffic elsewhere. Security teams can also use the service to track where the packets are headed in order to identify potential data breaches.

Aviatrix is offering CoPilot as an extension to its flagship cloud networking platform. The platform comprises a suite of tools for managing, securing and monitoring the parts of companies’ corporate networks that run in the public cloud.

“Public cloud is now the center of gravity for enterprises,” said Aviatrix Chief Executive Officer Steve Mullaney (pictured). “But while their infrastructure has certainly changed, their requirements for network visibility and troubleshooting absolutely have not.”

Mullaney provided more insight into the role of cloud network monitoring in the startup’s roadmap during an interview on SiliconANGLE Media’s video studio theCUBE. The executive said he sees an opportunity to define the “networking and security infrastructure architecture” for enterprises shifting to the cloud and highlighted improved visibility as a key component of the value proposition.

“So many people think ‘I want it the same as it was on-prem,'” Mullaney said. “I think across multicloud, if you do it right with us, it’s better because the visibility you get is more than you get on-prem.”

Aviatrix’s feature set has enabled the startup to win high-profile customers such as Netflix Inc. and Social Finance Inc,. along with a $40 million funding round last year that was led by  Charles River Ventures. Formation 8, Ignition Partners and Liberty Global Ventures contributed to the investment as well, which bumped up the startup’s total outside funding to $76 million. 

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