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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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The State of Network Automation: Don't Worry. You Aren't Behind

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This is how Google is able to manage millions of servers running billions of containers each day, and how cloud-native companies have constructed their applications on top of new infrastructure underpinned by Kubernetes. These DevOps tools can typically manage multiple types of infrastructure.

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It's Time for NPM Appliances to Go Bye-Bye

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Kentik offers a cloud-friendly NPM solution that includes the mature and proven nProbe NPM agent from ntop that can be installed on application and load balancing servers. Because cloud infrastructure doesn’t have traditional switches with tap ports for you attach traditional probes.

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How Kentik reduces the likelihood of a full-blown cyber-attack before it happens

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One way we do this is by enriching flow records with data from threat intelligence feeds, identifying threats such as botnet command and control servers, malware distribution points, phishing websites, and spam sources. Well, if you see SSH connections over port 22 still happening, it is worth investigating.

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Kentik Detect for Kentik Site Reliability

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We also looked at this traffic by destination port and saw that in addition to the spikes on port 14999 (aggregation service) we saw a dip on 20012 (ingest) which is a service running on the same node. High number of source IPs talking to a proxy server. High number of source IPs talking to an internal IP.

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Closing the Network Performance Monitoring Gap and Achieving Full Network Visibility

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In those settings, you might drop NPM appliances into major data centers, perhaps directly connected to router or switch span ports, or via a tap or packet broker from the likes of a Gigamon or Ixia. Kentik’s server-side NPM instrumentation goes wherever the servers go, in the data center or in the cloud. routers and switches).

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Listen up: The Network AF podcast is here

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As a 20-year networking professional based in Vancouver, Canada, Andree says he’s always had one foot in what is now called DevOps and another in networking. The two discuss Andree’s career and some of the current projects he’s working on.