Notice ID: UXM_RFI
The UXM PMO is responsible for monitoring a complex network, systems, and application infrastructure that supports critical operations. This infrastructure includes base networking equipment and networks, multiple data centers, cloud environments, VPNs, and a wide range of applications serving internal (DAF) users. We are seeking a monitoring solution that can provide real-time visibility into the performance of our IT network, systems, and applications, enabling us to proactively identify and resolve issues. The PMO is interested in solutions that can provide a comprehensive, holistic, and integrated understanding of the traffic and infrastructure within DAF networks – and that enables our operators to do (1) root-cause analysis (2) automated predictive problem detection, (3) suggests solutions and fixes, (4) planning and modeling for network improvements.
The monitoring solution should include the ability to perform the following requirements:
- Service Dependency Mapping: The solution should be able to automatically map out interdependencies between applications and alert us when unexpected communication and bottlenecks occur on the network.
- Network Modeling Capabilities: The solution should provide a dynamic map of our network, including devices in multiple locations, and allow us to simulate network changes prior to execution. It should also have the ability to identify network issues by comparing running configurations to “known good” configurations. The solution should support Distributed Tracing, and the correlation with Network Events and Metrics from Logging.
- Application Performance Monitoring Capabilities: The solution should offer agent-based and synthetic testing capabilities for monitoring the performance of our applications. It should provide real-time visibility into transaction details, track performance by user, and offer browser-based application synthetic testing. Additionally, it should have the ability to monitor our on-premises virtual environment (VMware) and provide database monitoring for SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Customizable & Extensible: The solution should support the creation of custom tests that can be crafted by non-expert programmers. As well as the ability to ingest and correlate data sources from other vendors and existing DAF and DISA networking modeling investments.
- Standards: Vendors should highlight industry standards that they support. For example, Export and Ingest of Open Telemetry data and the level of compliance to the Semantic Conventions for attributes.
- Accreditation and Approval: All items must be Trade Agreements Act (TAA) compliant and approved for use within the Department of Defense (DoD).
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