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Monitor Network Performance Using Telegraf

Monitoring your network performance is important for many reasons and can help in detecting network issues such as bandwidth congestion, latency, packet loss, or hardware failures. By continuously monitoring your network, you can identify areas where improvements can be made, allowing for optimization of resources, better allocation of bandwidth, and overall enhancement of network efficiency.

Network Latency & How To Improve Latency

Cloud-based services have changed how individuals and businesses get things done. That doesn’t mean it’s all positive — there are some tradeoffs and compromises that come with cloud services and the internet. One major tradeoff is speed. For instance, if your website fails to load within three seconds, 40% of your visitors will abandon your site. That’s a serious dent for anyone doing business online. The culprit here is latency.

What you can't do with Kubernetes network policies (unless you use Calico): Policies to all namespaces or pods

Continuing from my previous blog on the series, What you can’t do with Kubernetes network policies (unless you use Calico), this post will be focusing on use case number five — Default policies which are applied to all namespaces or pods.

Broadcom's ValueOps and AppNeta Solutions Are Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

We are pleased to announce that several Broadcom software products are now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace, providing Google Cloud customers with market leading value stream management and network performance monitoring capabilities via a simplified procurement process and consolidated billing with their Google Cloud account.

Importance of Hiding Your IP and Using SOCKS5 Proxy

IP addresses have almost eliminated our postal addresses in this digital era. Whatever we do online, our IP signature is carried forward with our activities. This can make us vulnerable to privacy theft and other malicious activities. So, hiding IP addresses is crucial, especially when we want to maintain anonymity online.

How to Analyze Subscriber Behavior with Kentik

Learn how to analyze subscriber behavior using Kentik. In this post, we focus on the challenges and solutions of identifying and tracking the customers in an IP network while complying with regulations such as GDPR, show how Kentik Custom Dimensions and Data Explorer provide the analysis, and finally touch on how the associated APIs help automate and ease the entire process.