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

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Networkers running enterprise and critical service provider infrastructure need infrastructure-savvy analogs of the same observability principles and practices being deployed by DevOps groups. The critical context that enables teams to ask questions about users, applications, and customers (and not just IP addresses and ports).

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Hybrid vs. Multi-cloud: The Good, the Bad and the Network Observability Needed

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This allows DevOps teams to configure the application to increase or decrease the amount of system capacity, like CPU, storage, memory and input/output bandwidth, all on-demand. For example, some DevOps teams feel that AWS is more ideal for infrastructure services such as DNS services and load balancing. Hybrid Cloud Benefits.

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The Network Also Needs to be Observable

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There are a number of definitions, but observability in the DevOps world has been about using diverse telemetry to know the internal states of systems over time (generally focused around metrics, logs, and traces), and providing answers to the unbounded questions needed to run modern applications. The Move to Observability.

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Network Engineering and Operations in the Multi-Cloud Era

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From our perspective, that’s because today’s cloud environments are becoming more dynamic, with unpredictable DevOps deployments adding huge variability to load. DDI management (DNS, DHCP, and IP addressing), network monitoring configuration, and routing are also very frequently automated.

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Kentik for Grafana

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Many, if not most, DevOps teams and others working across multiple tools use Grafana as the primary way they do reporting and analysis of data for operational use cases spanning many monitoring systems. Automatic DNS resolution option for IP addresses in Grafana. New installation documentation found here.

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Network observability: Hype or reality?

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The concept of observability has taken hold in the DevOps, SRE and application performance monitoring (APM) space. Port numbers and IP addresses are less useful in traffic analytics. And, observability as a concept resonates with the way application, DevOps and SRE teams see their challenges. What is observability?

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