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Announcing Complete Azure Observability for Kentik Cloud

Kentik

Kentik customers move workloads to (and from) multiple clouds, integrate existing hybrid applications with new cloud services, migrate to Virtual WAN to secure private network traffic, and make on-premises data and applications redundant to multiple clouds – or cloud data and applications redundant to the data center.

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The Network Also Needs to be Observable, Part 2: Network Telemetry Sources

Kentik

We see these DevOps teams unifying logs, metrics, and traces into systems that can answer critical questions to support great operations and improved revenue flow. Traditional WAN : WAN access switches, integrated services routers, cloud access routers. Application layer : ADCs, load balancers and service meshes.

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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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Using Device Telemetry to Answer Questions About Your Network Health

Kentik

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 network telemetry?

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Optimizing Network Stability and Reliability Through Data-Driven Strategies

Kentik

Only then can we pinpoint why one of our data center ToR switches is overwhelmed with unexpected traffic, why our line of business application is experiencing latency over the SD-WAN, why an OSPF adjacency is flapping, or why our SaaS app performance is terrible despite having a ton of available bandwidth.

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NetOps for Application Developers: Understanding the Importance of Network Operations in Modern Development

Kentik

As these applications scale, and engineering for reliability comes into the forefront, DevOps engineers begin to rely on networking concepts like load balancing, auto-scaling, traffic management, and network security. DevOps and NetOps need to work together Collaboration is often a two-way street.

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Network Capacity Planning 101: Requirements & Best Practices

Kentik

From a high-level perspective, network operators engage in network capacity planning to understand some key network metrics: Types of network traffic. Measure and analyze traffic metrics to establish performance and capacity baselines for future bandwidth consumption. Key metrics for planning network capacity.

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