Automating Test Creation with the ThousandEyes API
Over the past couple of years we have seen our customers increasingly use ThousandEyes to monitor their applications and services hosted in IaaS providers. As a part of our continued support for IaaS...
View ArticleAPM + ThousandEyes: Better Together
Application Performance Management (APM) is an important part of many IT organizations’ portfolios because of the need for DevOps teams to gather user experience data to continuously improve...
View ArticleEvolution of Infrastructure Monitoring at ThousandEyes Engineering
ThousandEyes is a network monitoring platform that provides deep insights and visibility into applications and networks in the cloud. Global Fortune 500 companies rely on ThousandEyes to monitor their...
View ArticleContent Delivery Networks Under the Sea
Google announced yet another submarine cable project. Named Dunant, after the founder of the Red Cross, this will be the first private transatlantic submarine cable operated by a single company. This...
View ArticleWhen the Kill Shot is All of Us: Anatomy of a Fortnite Outage
A few months back, on March 18th, some users connecting to Fortnite: Battle Royale would have experienced first a total outage, then significant performance degradation, lasting over a course of about...
View ArticleOne Resolver to Rule Them All: Ranking the Performance of Public DNS Providers
Our evaluation of public DNS services began in May 2015, when DNS expert Mehmet Akcin contributed a guest post comparing the performance of top public DNS providers based on latency measurements to...
View ArticleGoogle Cloud NEXT ‘18: Rainbow Unicorns and Multi-Cloud
A few weeks ago at ThousandEyes Connect in Santa Clara, in addition to great speakers from Atlassian and Caesars, we had the pleasure of welcoming Joshua Cha from our partner Google Cloud present on...
View ArticleWhy Network Visibility is Key to Retail Holiday Success
To say that digital transformation is essential to the retail industry and holiday retail sales is to state the obvious. Whether you’re a pure-play e-commerce operation or executing on an omni-channel...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Real World Zscaler Issues
In our first post on monitoring Zscaler secure web gateways (SWGs), we looked at the overall architecture of the Zscaler service and the monitoring implications for IT and network administrators. We...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Q2 2018
We’ve been busy this summer (a rather warm one in London and a cool one in San Francisco) to bring you exciting new ways to get better intelligence about your networks and applications. Highlights...
View ArticleThe Building Blocks of SaaS are Also Risks
No man is an island. And no SaaS application sits alone, independent of networks and services that have a hand in its delivery. It doesn’t matter how elastic, containerized, and NoSQL you are; how...
View ArticleFive Operational Habits of Successful SaaS Delivery
In our previous post, we covered some of the many Building Blocks of SaaS and how to manage their inherent risks. In today’s post, we dive into the five operational habits of successful SaaS delivery...
View ArticleSolving Cloud Migration Visibility Pains in Japan
One of the major themes we’ve observed in enterprise migration to the cloud is that visibility or lack thereof becomes a major pain point because of all the ways that the cloud creates external,...
View ArticleHow ThousandEyes Saved the Sanity of the Atlassian Network Team
The summer of 2018 at ThousandEyes has been a busy one with trade shows, bi-weekly product releases and our very own networking event ThousandEyes Connect. ThousandEyes Connect is a half day live...
View ArticleMongos in Containers: Pitfalls, Tips and Tricks
In a MongoDB sharded cluster, it is recommended to run mongos locally within the application to avoid network overhead that can slow down database queries. But how does this fit into a decentralized...
View ArticleMeasuring All the DNS Things
Today, ThousandEyes is launching our first ever Global DNS Performance Report, covering the state of domain name system (DNS) infrastructure around the globe, for both IPv4 and IPv6. This report will...
View ArticleNow in Service at ThousandEyes: Native ServiceNow Integration
ThousandEyes is excited to announce our official partnership and native integration with ServiceNow. ServiceNow is a cloud-based platform that provides solutions to simplify enterprise workflows,...
View ArticleWhy You Must Attend Cloud State 2018
Over the past few months, the product marketing and research team at ThousandEyes has been heads down in evaluating the 'State of the Cloud' through data-driven performance analysis. Just a couple of...
View ArticleVisualizing BGP Routing for Better Network Operations
The Internet is a complex web of thousands of independently-managed networks organized into Autonomous Systems (AS). Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the protocol that all these Autonomous Systems use...
View ArticleThe Day the Internet Stood Still (Halloween Special)
Happy Halloween week! Today we’re bringing you the first in a series of spooky stories of Internet and IT operations gone awry. To start us off, we’re revisiting the horror that was the Dyn outage two...
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