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Announcing Complete Azure Observability for Kentik Cloud

Kentik

It includes rich metrics for understanding the volume, path, business context, and performance of flows traveling through Azure network infrastructure. For example, Express Route metrics include data about inbound and outbound dropped packets. Kentik Map for Azure makes denied traffic easily discoverable from each subnet visualized.

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What Is a Network Operations Center (NOC)? Definition, Role, Benefits and Best Practices

Kaseya

Network infrastructure includes everything from routers and switches to firewalls and load balancers, as well as the physical cables that connect all of these devices. Firewalls: Firewalls act as a first line of defense against cyberattacks by blocking unauthorized traffic from entering your network.

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Practical Steps for Enhancing Reliability in Cloud Networks - Part I

Kentik

When evaluating solutions, whether to internal problems or those of our customers, I like to keep the core metrics fairly simple: will this reduce costs, increase performance, or improve the network’s reliability? It’s often taken for granted by network specialists that there is a trade-off among these three facets. Resiliency.

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

They also design and implement a detailed disaster recovery plan to ensure that all infrastructure elements (data and systems) have efficient backup solutions. The expert also documents problems and how they were addressed and creates metrics reports. Infrastructure upgrades and integration project management. Networking.

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End-User Monitoring in Production

LaunchDarkly

But for your database or for your load balancers or other parts of your system. The firewalls you rely on, the load balancers and things like that. In the metrics you use matter because those metrics are what you’re going to be explaining to your user base about what’s going on.

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Tips for Better Cloud Expense Management

ParkMyCloud

Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is a category that offers traditional IT services like compute, database, storage, network, load balancers, firewalls, etc. Monitoring and logging: collect performance and availability metrics as well as automate incident management and log aggregation.

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The Rise of Managed Services for Apache Kafka

Confluent

Some products may automatically create Kafka clusters in a dedicated compute instance and provide a way to connect to it, but eventually, users might need to scale the cluster, patch it, upgrade it, create backups, etc. In this case, it is not a managed solution but instead a hosted solution.