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What is Mist Marvis (VNA)

Mist Marvis (VNA) is a network monitoring and operations assistant that uses telemetry and event data to help teams detect, triage, and remediate network issues. It is used by network operations and IT teams to monitor user experience and network health across wired, wireless, and WAN environments, depending on the deployed components. A key characteristic is its conversational interface and automated insights that guide troubleshooting workflows rather than only presenting dashboards and alerts.

pros

AI-assisted troubleshooting workflows

Marvis focuses on guided triage by correlating symptoms, probable causes, and recommended actions from observed network telemetry. This can reduce time spent moving between multiple tools and manually interpreting raw metrics. The conversational interface supports operators who need quick answers during incident response. It is particularly oriented toward operational questions (what changed, what is impacted, what to do next) rather than only visualization.

Telemetry-driven user experience focus

The product emphasizes client and service experience signals (for example, connectivity quality and performance indicators) alongside infrastructure health. This helps teams prioritize issues that affect end users rather than only device status. It supports ongoing performance monitoring as well as incident-driven investigation. The approach aligns with environments where experience monitoring is as important as fault monitoring.

Integrated network domain coverage

When deployed within the Mist ecosystem, Marvis can draw from multiple network domains (such as wireless, wired switching, and WAN/SD-WAN components) to provide a more unified operational view. This reduces the need to stitch together separate monitoring silos for each domain. It can also support consistent operational workflows across those domains. The integration is most effective where the underlying network components provide rich, standardized telemetry.

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Best fit in-vendor stack

Marvis’ capabilities depend heavily on the availability and quality of telemetry from supported network components and services. Organizations with heterogeneous networks may not get the same depth of insight across all devices and domains. This can create uneven coverage where some parts of the network remain monitored primarily through traditional SNMP/syslog tools. As a result, it may not fully replace existing monitoring platforms in mixed-vendor environments.

Less suited for broad observability

The product is oriented to network operations use cases rather than end-to-end application and infrastructure observability. Teams looking for a single platform spanning logs, traces, metrics, and business KPIs may need additional tools. Cross-domain correlation beyond networking (for example, deep application performance diagnostics) is typically outside its core scope. This can increase toolchain complexity for organizations standardizing on a unified observability approach.

Automation requires governance

Recommendations and automated actions still require operational validation, change control, and role-based access governance. In regulated environments, teams may need to limit or audit automated remediation to meet compliance requirements. Tuning alerting, thresholds, and experience scoring can also require iterative operational work. Without governance, automated guidance can lead to inconsistent operational outcomes.

Plan & Pricing

Plan Price Key features & notes
Marvis Virtual Network Assistant (Wireless) — SKU: SUB-VNA-1Y / SUB-VNA-3Y / SUB-VNA-5Y Contact sales — no public price on Juniper site Marvis VNA subscription for wireless assurance; conversational AI virtual network assistant; subscription term configurable (1, 3, or 5 years).
Marvis for Wired (EX switches) — SKU: SUB-EX-VNA-1Y / SUB-EX-VNA-3Y / SUB-EX-VNA-5Y Contact sales — no public price on Juniper site Marvis subscription for EX switch classes (class-specific SKUs).
Marvis for WAN (Session Smart Routers / SRX) — SKU: S-WAN-VNA-xxM-1 / 3 / 5 and S-WAN-VNA-C1..C6-1/3/5 Contact sales — no public price on Juniper site Marvis for WAN / SRX devices; SKUs depend on bandwidth tier or device class and term length.
Marvis for vSRX — SKU: S-WAN-VNA-C2 / C3 / C4 / C5 - 1 3 5
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Marvis Client (per-user subscription) — SKU: S-VNACLIENT-S-1 (1 year) Contact sales — no public price on Juniper site Per-user Marvis Client agent subscription for enhanced client telemetry and visibility.
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Bundled / AIWAN / Premium bundles (e.g., SUB-AI-1Y 3Y 5Y, SUB-AI includes SUB-VNA in some configurations)
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Seller details

Juniper Networks, Inc.
Sunnyvale, California, USA
1996
Subsidiary
https://www.juniper.net/
https://x.com/JuniperNetworks
https://www.linkedin.com/company/juniper-networks/

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