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Listen up: The Network AF podcast is here
Today our Co-founder and CEO Avi Freedman launches Network AF, his new podcast. Come and listen to all-things networking, cloud, the internet and more. The first episode is out today!
Anatomy of an OTT traffic surge: Microsoft Patch Tuesday
Last Tuesday, September 14th was the second Tuesday of the month, and for anyone running a network or working in IT, you know what that means: another Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Doug Madory looks at how the resulting traffic surge can be analyzed using Kentik’s OTT Service Tracking.
Why latency is the new outage
Adding more bandwidth from the business to the cloud is like adding more cowbell to Grazing in the Grass. In many cases, it won’t improve the end-user experience when latency is the real problem.
Wait, Did AS8003 Just Disappear?
There has been a new development in The Mystery of AS8003.
As you may recall, this was the AS number registered to a defunct company in Florida that appeared earlier this year in the global routing table announcing over 175 million IPv4 addresses belonging to the US Department of Defense.
Well, that just changed.
Visibility into the cloud path of application latency
A company with thousands of remote employees connecting to the same SaaS applications will randomly experience slowness. How can we troubleshoot this sluggishness?
What’s next for the internet in Afghanistan?
As the last US military aircraft depart Kabul, so closes a chapter of U.S. involvement in the country. Will it also end a period of growth of the domestic internet in Afghanistan?
Network observability: Hype or reality?
If you haven’t heard of network observability, you soon will, and you’ll be hearing it a lot. Some say it is just marketing hype and that networks have always been observable. This post will explore why that’s not the case.
Is it a network or application problem? The answer is here
With network observability from Kentik in New Relic One, you can correlate and analyze all of your telemetry data in one place: your applications, infrastructure, digital experience, and network data.
Announcing Kentik Labs
Today we announce the launch of Kentik Labs, our new hub for the developer, DevOps and SRE community. With the tools we’re open sourcing, you’ll be able to observe key network telemetry for a competitive advantage.
Channel Partner Spotlight: Edgeworx Solutions Inc.
Edgeworx is one of Kentik’s largest and most active channel partners, specialized in the Canadian region. In this Q&A, we highlight a bit about who they are and what they do.