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Cascaded Lag: The Cumulative Impact of Latency on Applications and User Experience

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My friend Anil just posted this graphic: I shared a few words on this with my team, and they suggested this blog post. I’ve been addressing latency as part of my job description for as long as I can remember. Necessity is the mother of invention, and I fell in love with the Kentik Synthetics right at first release.

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The New Normals of Network Operations in the Year Ahead

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In the following blog post, I summarize what I presented in my PTC panel entitled Strategies to Meet Network Needs. Here are five “new normals” that Kentik customers are considering as they pandemic-proof their businesses to survive this year’s New Realities. Kentik customers are planning to continue to increase capacity into 2021.

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Best Practices for Enriching Network Telemetry to Support Network Observability

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And even then, key questions— such as, Am I using my network resources effectively? This data may include performance metrics and resource usage of the devices, as well as the applications and services running on them. This data includes performance, errors, and resource usage by these applications and services.

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Why latency is the new outage

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Below I ran it for youtube.com from my home office: Connection ID PKT RX Hand Shake - - CB8FB44ABF. On the command line, TCP Traceroute is my favorite turn-to utility for mapping out the hop-by-hop connection between my device and the destination. 4.185ms 12.457ms 43237B1614. 9.604ms 10.629ms. What is synthetic monitoring?

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Kentik Adds Integrated Synthetic Monitoring to Deliver Next-Gen Network Observability

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As we announced in July, Kentik released our Synthetic Monitoring offering, adding integrated, autonomous, pervasive performance testing to our already leading network traffic analytics and observability platform. My personal history with synthetics goes back to the ‘90s with Keynote. Aren’t there already synthetics offerings?

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Optimizing Network Stability and Reliability Through Data-Driven Strategies

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This was what Kentik was all about at Networking Field Day 31. And when we find that, we’ll want to see interface errors, DNS response times, TCP retransmissions from container resources, and so on, all in a time series to identify what is causing that latency. So how do we get there?

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Introducing the Industry's First Visibility Solution for Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)

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Kentik is changing that. In a single network component, multiple VRF resources create isolation between virtual networks. Without VRF visibility, network engineers struggle to answer questions such as: What does my inbound or outbound traffic at the provider edge (PE) segmented by VRFs look like? VRF Visibility from Kentik.