Stay ahead of network issues with real-time metrics with BlueCat Integrity X

Key takeaways

BlueCat Integrity X delivers real-time, always-on DDI metrics, enabling teams to detect and address DNS, DHCP, and IPAM issues before users are impacted. Built on native Prometheus-based telemetry, metrics are enabled by default with no polling delays, plugins, or added licenses.

Out-of-the-box dashboards provide instant visibility into queries per second, leases per second, latency spikes, and suspicious traffic, with drill-down views for fast investigation and response. Teams can take corrective action immediately, including enforcing security policies directly from the UI.

All metrics are exposed via open standards, making it easy to integrate DDI telemetry into existing observability platforms such as Grafana, Splunk, and Elastic. The result is proactive service assurance instead of reactive firefighting, with less operational noise and more reliable network services.

Most DDI teams only become aware of a problem when users start calling the help desk. That’s already too late. Services are degraded, customers are frustrated, and NetOps is in firefighting mode. What if you could spot issues before they ripple across your network, and take corrective action in near real time?

With BlueCat Integrity X that’s exactly what you get. Integrity X includes real-time, always-on metrics powered by a native Prometheus-based telemetry system as part of your unified DDI (DNS, DHCP, and IPAM) core network services. Unlike older tools that rely on static polling intervals or bolt-on monitoring plugins, Integrity X’s telemetry is active by default. There’s no extra configuration, no hidden licensing, and no waiting. You get immediate visibility into the health and performance of your entire DDI environment.

Real-time insight into DDI environment health

Integrity X continuously collects metrics from Address Manager (BAM) and managed DNS/DHCP Servers (BDDS) and presents them in intuitive, out-of-the-box dashboards. With these dashboard views, you can:

• Monitor queries per second (QPS) and leases per second (LPS) in real time, with updates that keep pace with your network traffic
• Zoom into specific windows of time to examine spikes in load or latency, identifying where issues are forming before they cascade into outages
• Spot and investigate suspicious traffic, such as abnormal query volumes targeting malicious domains or unusual DHCP lease churn
• Drill down into the top clients and queries instantly, giving your team a direct path to rapid forensics and troubleshooting

From here, administrators can take corrective action instantly, such as applying a Response Policy Zone (RPZ) rule to block or redirect malicious traffic—all without leaving the UI.

Integrate DDI metrics into your observability stack

While built-in dashboards deliver immediate visibility, Integrity X is also designed for teams that want full control over their telemetry. All metrics are exposed through an open Prometheus exporter, allowing you to:

• Stream DDI metrics into Grafana to build advanced dashboards, custom visualizations, and long-term performance views
• Pipe real-time telemetry into your enterprise observability stack using Vector, enabling seamless integration with tools like Splunk, Elastic, and Apache Kafka
• Extend data retention beyond the native 14-day window, making it easy to baseline normal behavior and analyze trends month-over-month or year-over-year

By relying on open standards, DDI metrics can finally be handled with the same discipline as application performance, security telemetry, and cloud workloads. Instead of isolated dashboards, NetOps, SecOps, and DevOps teams share a unified observability layer—bringing DDI fully into the modern operations stack.

Proactive service assurance, not reactive firefighting

The real breakthrough isn’t just faster detection. It’s a fundamental shift in how teams operate. By combining continuous telemetry with automated policy enforcement, Integrity X enables proactive service assurance instead of reactive incident response.

Rather than scrambling to diagnose outages after users are already affected, teams have real-time metrics, historical baselines, and built-in controls that surface risk early and prevent issues from escalating.

The impact is immediate and lasting: engineers spend less time chasing alerts and late-night tickets, and more time scaling, optimizing, and improving the infrastructure that keeps services reliable.

Built for modern observability, not legacy monitoring

Many competitors still rely on legacy techniques such as SNMP polling or proprietary monitoring add-ons. These approaches add operational overhead, struggle to scale, and often produce mismatched data between dashboards and APIs.

Integrity X takes a fundamentally different approach. Telemetry is native, always on, and powered by the same APIs that run the product itself. This approach eliminates gaps, delays, and hidden dependencies. The result is:

• No plugins, bolt-ons, or additional licenses required
• Complete consistency between UI views and API-exported data
• Immediate visibility with no delay between a network event and its appearance in monitoring tools

Integrity X is built on the same APIs customers use. Because those APIs power the product end-to-end, they deliver the same reliability for your organization’s automation, monitoring, and observability pipelines.

Watch Integrity X metrics in action

See how Integrity X delivers live, actionable DDI metrics in the full demo:

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By identifying risk early and providing continuous visibility, Integrity X helps teams maintain uptime, strengthen security, and move faster without operational noise! Experience the benefits of our latest product updates today, and discover how BlueCat can help your business achieve its IT goals.

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