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The Silent Sabotage of Configuration Drift

Your network is not a static entity. It is a living system that has been running for years, absorbing countless changes. While your infrastructure may appear healthy on the surface, a slow and silent saboteur is often at work, methodically undermining your infrastructure from within. This is not the work of a malicious actor. It’s the inevitable result of a process you may not even be tracking: configuration drift.

How Log Management and NDR Work Together to Speed Up Incident Response

Log management and Network Detection and Response (NDR) solutions are closely related but offer different layers of visibility. Rather than overlapping, they complement each other, together providing a connected view of what’s happening in your environment. How exactly? Let’s take a closer look.
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The Critical Role of CPU Monitoring for Modern Network Admins

For network administrators, maintaining seamless and uninterrupted system performance is an ongoing, vital responsibility. In environments ranging from hundreds of endpoints to complex hybrid clouds, CPU monitoring stands out as a critical tool. Without it, proactively identifying and resolving performance slowdowns, service lags, or outages is impossible, leaving you to reactively guess at solutions.

Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video

In this edition of Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge, we look at Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video. Based on traffic stats, TNF is the most watched program on the streaming service. Using Kentik’s OTT capabilities, we’ll see how this program gets delivered and how that has changed over 11 weeks of the NFL season.

How LEO satellite technology is transforming enterprise connectivity

How LEO satellite technology is transforming enterprise connectivity It’s not new to say that reliable, high-speed connectivity is critical for businesses. Yet even as global networks expand, many enterprises still face connectivity challenges, whether operating in remote industrial zones, across oceans or in developing regions with limited terrestrial infrastructure.

What Is Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Monitoring?

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has transformed business communication by enabling voice calls over the Internet rather than traditional phone lines. While VoIP provides flexibility and cost savings, call quality can be affected by network issues such as latency, jitter, and packet loss. VoIP monitoring is the process of tracking and analyzing the performance of your VoIP system to ensure smooth, clear, and reliable voice communication.

How to Monitor Java Applications on Windows with SolarWinds Observability | APM Setup Guide

This video provides a step-by-step walkthrough for configuring monitoring for Java applications running on Windows using SolarWinds Observability. The demonstration covers the complete process—from adding a new service to instrumenting the application with the Java APM library and verifying connectivity. Topics covered in this video include: This guide is designed for developers, DevOps engineers, and system administrators who need to instrument Java applications on Windows for performance monitoring, distributed tracing, and full-stack observability.