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At the end of last week, a significant BGP leak caused widespread network outages that impacted major network operators, cloud, and CDN providers. The incident on Friday, April 16th, 2021 was (yet another) classic origin hijack case from Vodafone Idea (AS55410), an Indian operator based in Mumbai and Gandhinagar. The Vodafone Idea ASN was inundated with traffic,13 times higher than average, leaving its users unable to access the internet.

Telecom companies monitor their network using a variety of monitoring tools. There are separate fault management and performance management platforms for different areas of the network (core, RAN, etc.), and infrastructure is monitored separately. Although these solutions monitor network functions and logic – something that would seem to make sense — in practice this strategy fails to produce accurate and effective monitoring or reduce time to detection of service experience issues.

We are pleased to announce that as of 13th April 2021, Dashbird has successfully completed its SOC 2 Type 2 audit. SOC 2 engagements are based on the AICPA’s Trust Service Criteria. SOC 2 audit reports focus on a Service Organization’s non-financial reporting controls as they relate to the Security of a system. The audit was conducted by Dansa D’Arata Soucia LLP.

It’s April, and that means it’s Mathematics and Statistic Awareness month. And in our everyday world of monitoring and observability, both play an ever-increasing role in how we keep track of our environments, both our apps and our infrastructure. Our world is no longer about just pinging the server/app to make sure “It’s alive!”.

Telegraf is a server-based agent for collecting all kinds of metrics for further processing. It’s a piece of software that you can install anywhere in your infrastructure and it will read metrics from specified sources – typically application logs, events, or data outputs.

JavaScript is a common language in mobile and web app development. Due to its popularity, JavaScript optimization is becoming increasingly necessary for improving application performance. Let’s learn some of the challenges associated with JavaScript and how to optimize js performance.

InfluxDB 2.0’s Checks and Notifications system is likely the most powerful and flexible system available for creating alerts based on time series data. To get the most out of the system, it is helpful to understand the different pieces and how they fit together. After reading this article, you should be able to create precise alerting using the InfluxDB 2.0 User Interface (UI), as well as be able to extend and customize the system to suit your specific needs.

We’re proud to announce the general availability of Lightrun Cloud – a completely free and self-service version of the Lightrun platform. We consider Lightrun Cloud to be a major milestone in our constant journey to empower developers with better observability tooling and welcome you to sign up for a free account.

Not all industries are the same in terms of the sensitivity of data they handle. And as you mature as a company, you need to be more careful of how you handle your critical data. With the advent of modern cloud native technologies & Kubernetes, on-prem software is more viable now.