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

Kentik

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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The Network Also Needs to be Observable

Kentik

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 observability: Hype or reality?

Kentik

The concept of observability has taken hold in the DevOps, SRE and application performance monitoring (APM) space. But the critical point here is the trend toward cloud networking , and related trends such as SD-WAN have changed the game. Port numbers and IP addresses are less useful in traffic analytics.

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At The Turning Point: FinServ Data Networks

Kentik

Internet everywhere: it’s now your WAN, your digital supply chain, and delivery vehicle. Moving from statically deployed applications to DevOps, CI/CD development models. Network identifiers like IP addresses or interface names have lost their context in the face of dynamically deployed and autoscaled applications.

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Synthetics 101: How to Drive Better Business Outcomes

Kentik

IP address, server, host, web page, etc.), In building Kentik Synthetics , our team spoke with well over a one-hundred customers who included service providers, digital enterprises (SRE and DevOps teams) and corporate IT teams. Checking out a shopping cart. network, DNS, HTTP, web, etc.), sending it to a specific target (e.g.,

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

Kentik

This is happening at the same time that SRE and DevOps teams are actually speeding up and enjoying the agility of the cloud. The SD-WAN systems, the DDoS scrubbers, and the intrusion detection appliances. Packet Address : AWS recently added the ability to see inside network overlays (GRE, etc.)

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