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Console Connect Ecosystem Update October 2025

In this ecosystem update, we share details of the latest additions to the Console Connect platform. This includes our expansion into Thailand with 13 new enabled data centre locations plus new cloud on-ramps available globally, giving you greater flexibility and choice to connect worldwide. Thailand is one of Asia’s fastest-growing digital hubs.

Is It Time to Ditch Your VPS? Here's What Nobody Tells You

Let's be honest - if you're reading this, you've probably been riding the VPS train for a while. It's been good to you. Affordable, flexible, not too demanding. Like that reliable hatchback you drove through college. But now your project's grown. Traffic's up, your app's more complex, and you're starting to feel those little hiccups - slow response times, random crashes, maybe even a few panicked server reboots at 3 a.m. Sound familiar?

Nobody Cares About Your MTTR

I’ve been in those late-night "war room" calls where, after hours of painstaking work, the team finally resolves a critical outage. The dashboards all turn green, a collective sigh of relief is shared, and the next day’s report highlights a victory: Mean time to resolution (MTTR) was reduced by 15% compared to the last major incident. It feels like a win.

Tag(ging)-You're It: How to Leverage AppNeta Monitoring Data for Maximum Insights

Today’s enterprise networks are a far cry from the centralized, predictable infrastructures of the past. Instead, they are sprawling, dynamic ecosystems that stretch across cloud services, SaaS applications, on-premises data centers, distributed branches, and thousands of end users connecting from every imaginable location. This complexity creates a huge challenge for IT and network operations teams: How do you get a clear, real-time view of what’s really happening?

Telemetry Now Teaser: "Tracking the Red Sea Cable Cuts with Kentik's Cloud Latency Map"

Go behind the scenes of a major internet analysis. When the recent Red Sea cable cuts disrupted global connectivity, Kentik's Director of Internet Analysis, Doug Madory, turned to the Cloud Latency Map to track the fallout in real-time. In this clip from the latest Telemetry Now podcast, Doug walks through how he identified the latency spikes and rerouting caused by the damage.

Closing Visibility Gaps in the Modern Data Center

In today’s high-performance data centers, “all green” dashboards can mask catastrophic issues hiding just beneath the surface. If you’re missing the microbursts, hidden oversubscription, and routing imbalances that are devastating application performance, you’re flying blind. Learn how to close these visibility gaps and shift from reactive firefighting to proactive network intelligence.

N-sight Monthly Release Roundup August-September 2025

In the latest N-sight update, Brian Mackie highlights new features and upcoming changes. Users can now access detailed device information, including TPM chip data, CPU, memory, and Azure subscription details, along with utilization graphs that track trends over time. A chronological activities log will soon be added, featuring blue screen events and user login/logout information. Additionally, a new tagging feature allows for custom device labels, and enhancements to patch management capabilities are on the way, including support for Linux and Mac devices.

What is API-First Networking?

When you build your network with APIs at its core, you give your business a competitive edge. Here’s how to do it. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become ubiquitous with modern networks for good reason. As companies use more service providers, endpoints, and software platforms, APIs help them get the most possible utility from their data with the least possible effort.