Broadcom & Google Cloud Tie-Up

Broadcom and Google Cloud said on April 22 they expanded their partnership around Cloud Network Insights, a Google Cloud service that uses Broadcom’s AppNeta technology to monitor application and network performance across multi-cloud and hybrid systems. (investors.broadcom.com) Google Cloud built Cloud Network Insights as a first-party product for its own customers, while Broadcom supplies the AppNeta monitoring layer underneath it. The companies said the service is available now through Google Cloud. (investors.broadcom.com) The product is meant to answer a basic operations question: is an outage or slowdown coming from the network, the application, or a third-party service in between. Google’s documentation says it can trace problems across Google Cloud, other cloud providers, internet links, and on-premises connections. (docs.cloud.google.com) Cloud Network Insights does that with synthetic probing, which is software-generated test traffic that checks routes even when real users are not active. Google says those monitoring points collect packet timing, path hops, and application response data, then feed the results into Google Cloud’s monitoring and logging tools. (docs.cloud.google.com) The timing reflects how enterprise computing has changed over the past year as companies spread workloads across several clouds, software-as-a-service products, and their own data centers. Broadcom said those setups now also include artificial intelligence and agentic workloads, which add more network paths and more places for failures to hide. (investors.broadcom.com) Google’s public documentation lists the service as a Preview, or pre-general-availability, offering and says access may require working through a Google Cloud Technical Account Manager. The same documentation says the product is provided under pre-GA terms and may have limited support. (docs.cloud.google.com) Broadcom said the service includes network experience monitoring, application and agent experience monitoring, and diagnostics aimed at reducing mean time to resolution, the industry metric for how long it takes to isolate and fix an incident. It also said operators can use synthetic transaction monitoring to catch software-as-a-service and web application issues before users notice them. (investors.broadcom.com) In Broadcom’s own description, Cloud Network Insights also uses Google’s Gemini models for diagnostics and insights, pointing to a push to add more automated analysis on top of raw network telemetry. The companies are betting that customers want fewer separate tools as cloud operations, networking, and application monitoring converge. (networkobservability.broadcom.com)