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Closing the Network Performance Monitoring Gap and Achieving Full Network Visibility

Kentik

To quote: “Today’s typical NPMD vendors have their solutions geared toward traditional data center and branch office architecture, with the centralized hosting of applications.”. It’s now possible to get rich performance metrics from your key application and infrastructure servers, even components like HAProxy and NGINX load balancers.

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Practical Steps for Enhancing Reliability in Cloud Networks - Part I

Kentik

Highly available networks are resistant to failures or interruptions that lead to downtime and can be achieved via various strategies, including redundancy, savvy configuration, and architectural services like load balancing. Resiliency. Resilient networks can handle attacks, dropped connections, and interrupted workflows.

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Podcast with Kentik CEO Avi Freedman & Jim Metzler

Kentik

Addressing the visibility gaps left by legacy appliances in centralized data centers, Kentik NPM uses lightweight software agents to gather performance metrics from real traffic wherever application servers are distributed across the Internet. Is it the WAN? Is it the data center? They just want a managed solution.

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Implementing a Cost-aware Cloud Networking Infrastructure

Kentik

Gaining access to these vast cloud resources allows enterprises to engage in high-velocity development practices, develop highly reliable networks, and perform big data operations like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and observability.

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eBPF Explained: Why it's Important for Observability

Kentik

For example, developers often write programs in C or Rust compiled with clang, which is part of the LLVM toolchain, into usable bytecode. Using Python to write eBPF applications Additionally, developers often use a python front end to write an eBPF application in user space. The first is for networking, specifically routing.

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Kentik’s Journey to Deliver the First Cloud Network Observability Product

Kentik

One of our partners put it this way: “Cloud networks developed by software engineers are technically feasible — but administratively nightmarish!” Also, we wondered, wasn’t there already a well-developed market of tooling to help here? The SD-WAN systems, the DDoS scrubbers, and the intrusion detection appliances.

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