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Riverbed launches Network 360, embedding agentic AI into network observability

Riverbed announced Network 360, a network observability line that natively integrates its Riverbed IQ agentic AI and the conversational Riverbed Q interface into AppResponse and NetProfiler, while extending visibility across remote users, zero-trust, and public-cloud environments via NPM+. Riverbed said NPM 360 is available immediately at no premium over current AppResponse and NetProfiler pricing.

Published Sep 16, 2026 Updated Sep 17, 2026 2 sources

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Impact: medium
Confidence: 78%
Change type: feature launch
First seen: Sep 16, 2026
Last updated: Sep 17, 2026
Audience: it-operationsenterprise-buyers
Status: Ready

Summary

What changed

Riverbed launched Network 360, natively embedding agentic AI (Riverbed IQ) and a natural-language assistant (Riverbed Q) into its network performance monitoring products to correlate evidence, guide troubleshooting, and predict disruptions.

Why it matters

Agentic AI is moving from coding and chat into operational tooling like NetOps, where it promises to compress triage and root-cause work across fragmented monitoring data. Bundling it at no extra cost is a competitive signal that conversational, agent-driven troubleshooting is becoming a baseline expectation in observability.

Evidence excerpt

The new Riverbed Network 360 offerings natively integrate the agentic AI capabilities of Riverbed IQ and Q into AppResponse and NetProfiler while extending visibility with NPM+.