Imagine you're playing a game of chess, but instead of reacting to your opponent's moves, you can see five moves ahead and plan your strategy accordingly. That's the power of proactive network monitoring. Instead of waiting for issues to arise and reacting to them, you can stay several steps ahead and keep your network running smoothly. In this post, we'll explore the art of proactive network monitoring and how it can help you stay ahead of the game.

HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.10 is now available. HAProxy Enterprise Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.10 is coming soon, and will incorporate these same features.In this release, we added partial support for Gateway API, added new Docker image tags to Docker Hub to make it easier to pull the latest version, and implemented other minor improvements. HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.10 is built with HAProxy version 2.7.We discuss the changes in this version below.

Given the benefits cloud computing offers such as security, flexibility, better collaboration, and data modernization, organizations of all shapes and sizes have started moving their workload to this technology. With so many organizations using workarounds to gain visibility and control of bandwidth consumption, and with cloud computing letting organizations access and manage the information, the amount of data being generated is also increasing.

Managed service providers (MSPs) play a major part in increasing business continuity and enhancing the productivity of the businesses they cater to. Businesses these days rely on MSPs to take on the responsibility of managing their networks, so they need not spend most of their time on network management tasks like keeping track of network devices, troubleshooting network bottlenecks, etc.

Port monitoring is a necessary measure to make sure your network is running at an optimized level. For those unfamiliar with New England, many villages and cities began as fishing towns. These communities still do business on the sea, with multiple companies shipping out their products on massive boats. How do these boats gain access to the towns to continue doing business in them?

With cloud solutions becoming mainstream and hybrid workforces becoming the norm rather than the exception, organizations need to stay nimble and agile for network access that can occur anytime, from anywhere. A thriving organization has a flourishing network that extends its arms globally, yet delivers high speed and performance without any compromise. Hence, organizations rely heavily on their networks for uninterrupted operations.

Regardless of an organization’s industry or size, virtually every critical business activity or service is at least partly reliant upon network connectivity. When network performance slows or issues arise that halt critical end-user services, it can be very costly to an organization. Lost employee productivity, eroded customer loyalty, and reduced sales can all be among the ramifications for even relatively brief service interruptions.

What do network operators want most from all their hard work? The answer is a stable, reliable, performant network that delivers great application experiences to people. In daily network operations, that means deep, extensive, and reliable network observability. In other words, the answer is a data-driven approach to gathering and analyzing a large volume and variety of network telemetry so that engineers have the insight they need to keep things running smoothly.

Spring marks a season of growth, and HAProxy was in full bloom in the Spring 2023 G2 reports. Our users continue to share their positive experiences on G2 and show how new users can use HAProxy to simplify, scale, and secure their application delivery infrastructure.

From using energy-efficient equipment to helping customers choose the greenest network paths, we’re committing to doing our part to combat climate change.

This guide explores the benefits of embedded caching for ISPs and discusses deployment optimization strategies and future trends in CDN technology. Embedded CDNs help reduce network congestion, save costs, and improve user experiences. ISPs must carefully plan their deployment strategies by considering how each of the CDNs distributes content and directs end-users to the caches. They need to know both the CDNs and their network architecture in detail to build a successful solution.

Software testing has been an established discipline as old as software development itself. We have seen significant evolution of testing practices recently specially driven by Continuous Delivery and DevOps, where testing is increasingly integrated with agile development and other software lifecycle practices.

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a widely used protocol for monitoring and managing network devices. SNMP traps are a key feature of SNMP, and they’re used to notify management systems about specific events or conditions on network devices. This article will explore SNMP traps, discuss the different types and examples of traps and outline best practices for using SNMP traps in a network environment.

Picture this: You're the IT manager at a large company, and you're responsible for ensuring that your network is running smoothly. But how do you know if everything is working as it should be? You could wait for someone to report a problem, but that's reactive and not ideal. You could monitor your network constantly, but that's impractical and time-consuming. So what's the solution? Enter synthetic monitoring, the secret sauce to network monitoring.

Staring down the runway of 2023 and toward 2024, I’m wondering what will become of the digital transformation initiatives that began pre-Covid and accelerated over the past two-plus years. We’re certainly not entering a “stop transforming” period. So, what will transformation look like going forward?

A data-driven approach to cybersecurity provides the situational awareness to see what’s happening with our infrastructure, but this approach also requires people to interact with the data. That’s how we bring meaning to the data and make those decisions that, as yet, computers can’t make for us. In this post, Phil Gervasi unpacks what it means to have a data-driven approach to cybersecurity.

Megaport’s latest Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE) enhancements mean higher performance, more choice, and additional security partner options for customers.

The PerfOps suite offers many tools to help you troubleshoot and measure your network performance with ease. One of the most often used tools is the Traceroute diagnostic tool. It is used to determine the path that an Internet Protocol (IP) packet takes from a source device to a destination device on a network.

True observability requires visibility into both the application and network layers. For companies reliant on multi-zonal cloud networks, the days of NetOps existing as a team siloed away from application developers are over.

Are you tired of dealing with network issues that slow down your business operations and create headaches for your network administrators? Be sure to fix problems you could have prevented before it's too late. Say hello to Network Monitoring! Imagine having a proactive approach to network management, where you can anticipate and prevent network issues from causing costly downtime.

Having slow internet speed can cause huge frustration among the users in an organization. We know how effective use of bandwidth can influence productivity in your business. Bandwidth is the volume of information that can be sent over an internet connection in a measured amount of time calculated in megabytes per second. For instance, let’s assume your organization’s network bandwidth is a canal and your data is the ships sailing through it.

Since its initial conception on the back of a napkin, BGP has been an essential part of the Internet. However, its ubiquity and simplicity also make it a potential weak spot in any organization's Internet Stack. As an open, near-universal protocol it's a vector for potentially malicious attacks. It can also cause the same amount of problems simply through misconfiguration (in fact telling the difference between the two can be a challenge in and of itself).

Are your storage needs increasing faster than your on-premises storage can handle? We explain why cloud storage is actually the safer option – while also saving you money.

Within enterprises, it used to be that applications ran on a single server. Owners could directly monitor that discrete machine, conveniently access all the logs they needed, see all the metrics that mattered, and hit the reboot button, without needing to confer with “everyone.” Those days are gone. Modern application architectures stretch the definitions of the words “federated” and “distributed.” We now have distributed applications.

Network telemetry and DataOps play a critical role in enhancing network visibility. By combining both, organizations can improve network visibility and gain insight to help them optimize their network performance, improve security, and enhance the overall user experience.

Are you tired of slow Internet speeds and mysterious network hiccups? Well, fear not because we have the ultimate solution for you: a Raspberry Pi network monitor setup with Obkio! Cloud and hosted solutions are becoming more and more popular, which makes monitoring network performance more important than ever.

Welcome to the world of Microsoft Teams! When it comes to video conferencing and messaging, Microsoft Teams is one of the most popular players in the game. When we get error messages like Microsoft Teams “We're sorry—we've run into an issue,” or “something went wrong,” it’s important to have a tool to help monitor and troubleshoot Microsoft Teams performance issues and connection issues.

Understanding how to check your bandwidth speed can make all the difference when your Internet connections appear slower than usual. Sometimes, not everything works as expected. A video conference takes too long to load everyone's cameras; downloading a vital document starts at a snail's pace; webpages present the visitor with a low-resolution HTML version of their website. Why do these kinds of issues occur in the office?

Systems for managing electronic health records (EHRs), clinical decision support, claims and payments, operations, and more are advancing rapidly in the healthcare industry. A more complex and dynamic mix of internal and external networks now play an integral role in patient outcomes. Digital transformation in healthcare is swiftly moving from islands of data to interconnected hybrid environments through critical apps like Epic Systems.

It has now been over a year since Russian forces invaded its neighbor to the west leading to the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. Kentik’s Doug Madory reviews what has happened with internal connectivity within Ukraine over the course of the war in this analysis done for a collaboration with the Wall Street Journal. This February marked a grim milestone in the ongoing war in Ukraine.

It is not always possible or necessary for an organization to rely solely on cloud resources. For example, requirements might call for on-premises infrastructure for privacy reasons. Alternatively, some organizations might use both on-premises infrastructure and public cloud services provided by companies like AWS, Azure, or Google.

Has your network been bitten by the jitterbug? Are you tired of your network dancing the jitterbug? Do you find yourself constantly tapping your foot waiting for pages to load or downloads to finish? Network jitter is your network's biggest enemy when using unified communications and real-time apps like IP telephony, video conferencing, and virtual desktop infrastructure. Troubleshooting and measuring jitter helps you avoid sounding like a robot on video calls.

Content delivery networks are an important part of the internet, as they ensure a short path between content and the consumers. The idea of placing CDN caches inside ISPs networks was created early in the days of CDNs. The number of CDNs with this offering is growing and ISPs all over the world take advantage of the idea. This post explains how this works and what to look out for to do it right.

Delivering on network reliability causes an enterprise’s data to become more distributed, introducing advanced challenges like complexity and data gravity for network engineers and operators. Learn concrete steps on how to implement cloud reliability and the trade-offs that come with it.

An employee calls complaining about slow response time. Another one has similar trouble. No red lights are flashing on the Network Operations console, so the network is up and running. What is happening? Frankly, it could be just about anything: an overworked router, a runaway process on a laptop, a slow loading web page, or a bandwidth hog at home.

eBPF is a powerful technical framework to see every interaction between an application and the Linux kernel it relies on. eBPF allows us to get granular visibility into network activity, resource utilization, file access, and much more. It has become a primary method for observability of our applications on premises and in the cloud. In this post, we’ll explore in-depth how eBPF works, its use cases, and how we can use it today specifically for container monitoring.

Understanding how NGINX performs can be overwhelming. There are many data points to follow, and it can be tricky to know which ones are relevant to you and which ones you can ignore. In this article, we'll explain how you can use AppSignal to monitor NGINX, expanding your visibility over your application's performance.

While network automation tools can help infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams improve their agility, lower their costs, and reduce the risk of manual errors, network management stubbornly remains a largely manual process. According to a recent Gartner report, less than 35% of enterprise network activities are automated today, forcing enterprises to run largely using a ClickOps model.

If you’re responsible for overseeing a network infrastructure, but you’re not always on-site to complete tasks and tackle issues in person, you need the right tools to empower you in your admin efforts. There’s a diverse array of resources out there which will enhance your network management capabilities, even when you’re working remotely. Here are just a few examples of must-have apps for you and your team in this context.