Kentik

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Synthetic testing is done by sending synthesized tests that are not from real users to check availability and performance metrics, such as latency, jitter and packet loss. In order to be effective for the modern, internet-centric and orchestrated era, a synthetic monitoring solution must have: No blind spots. What is synthetic testing?

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Network WAN Testing Systems Review 90

Kentik

MARCH 19, 2020

This could mean the users are saturating the internet connectivity or that they’ve saturated the LAN (or maybe WAN). When configuring traffic sources, the flow data is sent directly to Kentik over the internet, or it can go through kProxy, a Kentik client that encrypts the flow or Syslog data before sending it over the internet.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

tasks required to operate today’s complex networks, which span data center, WAN, LAN, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures. Managing peering, interconnection, and the overall state of traffic crossing the network edge to and from other networks is critical for any organization doing business on the internet.

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Network WAN LAN Technical Advisors 52

Kentik

JUNE 21, 2021

For AWS cloud networks, the Transit Gateway provides a way to route traffic to and from VPCs, regions, VPNs, Direct Connect, SD-WANs, etc. Entry point for on-premises SD-WAN connections. Cloud architects and network engineers can interact directly on the map to view hop by hop, metrics, and details on traffic, routing, and metadata.

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How To WAN Construction Network 82

Kentik

JULY 10, 2018

Monitoring needs to span multiple domains: the private enterprise data center and WAN; fixed and mobile service provider networks; the public Internet; and hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure. Performance metrics and other types of monitoring data can be collected in real time using streaming telemetry protocols such as gRPC.

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Tools Cloud Big Data WAN 45

Kentik

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Last week’s big story in the networking space was the route leak at major backbone provider Level 3 Communications, which triggered disruptions to Internet service nationwide. With an infrastructure that’s pervasively instrumented for actual network performance metrics, the above issues disappear.

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Metrics Internet WAN Network 40

Kentik

APRIL 15, 2020

SD-WAN, one of the most disruptive network technologies of the past few years, has a fast rate of adoption. Enterprises adopting SD-WAN are driven by key factors such as WAN cost savings, application performance improvement, management and operation simplification, and more. Visualize all transport (MPLS, internet, LTE, etc.)

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WAN Transportation Firewall Data Center 76

Kentik

JULY 19, 2021

measuring metrics associated with that “test” and then building KPIs using those metrics. If there is one thing that those four shifts have in common, it is an increased dependence on the network and the general internet in order to achieve their objective. network, DNS, HTTP, web, etc.), sending it to a specific target (e.g.,

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How To Network Metrics Performance 64

Kentik

JANUARY 13, 2021

Send these pings using the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) or TCP to one or any of the devices you believe to be involved. Ping and traceroute tests performed continuously with public and/or private agents generate key metrics (latency, jitter, and loss) that are evaluated for network health and performance.

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Until just a few years ago, enterprise networks were predominantly comprised solely of one or more private data centers connected to a series of campuses and branch offices by a private WAN that was based on MPLS VPN technology from a major telecom carrier. The effect on network traffic is profound. But cloud realities break that assumption.

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Network Performance Data Center WAN 40

Kentik

OCTOBER 10, 2016

So NPM is about another set of metrics. Metrics such as round-trip time, out-of-order packets, retransmits, and fragments, tell you how well the network is doing its job. And this makes it hard to know if you have the metrics and measurements that you need. NPM Architectures. Three NPM challenges.

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Network Performance Cloud Big Data 40

Kentik

OCTOBER 3, 2016

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 Internet? Is it the network? Is it the data center?

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Big Data Internet Network Performance 40

Kentik

MARCH 9, 2023

Traditional network monitoring relies on telemetry sources such as Simple Network Messaging Protocol (SNMP), sFlow, NetFlow, CPU, memory, and other device-specific metrics. With so many network boundaries being navigated (application, service, cloud providers, subnets, SD-WANs , etc.), What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?

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Network WAN Artificial Inteligence IoT 97

Kentik

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

KDE handles over 10B flow records/day with a microservice architecture that's optimized using metrics. And that leads us to metrics. Health checks and series metrics. Graphed, time series metrics make obvious at a glance if new code is helping. To dig deeper and get useful numbers, we need metrics reporting over time.

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Metrics Microservices Linux Architecture 40

Kentik

MAY 17, 2021

Internal communications routed over internet gateways and driving up costs. The SD-WAN systems, the DDoS scrubbers, and the intrusion detection appliances. Most organizations don’t have policies in place that prevent accounts from setting up new internet gateways, configuring new security groups, or routing policies.

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