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Telemetry Now Teaser: "Turning Network Telemetry Into Financial Insight"
Network operators prioritize cost, performance, security, and reliability as their core foundational needs. But how do they get the economic data to make tradeoffs when one of these needs suffers? Tune into the latest Telemetry Now with special guest Lauren Basile to learn how Kentik Traffic Costs is providing data-backed answers to these questions.
How to Overcome NaaS Integration Challenges
As network teams constantly search for new ways to simplify and optimize their networks, it helps to hear from experts who have spent years at the center of these transformations. One of these voices is Fabio D’Avino, a specialist in Network as a Service (NaaS) with more than seven years of experience researching, designing, and building global network services across industries.
Defining the Network Engineer of Tomorrow
A little while ago, I wrote a piece with the provocative title, "The End of the Network Engineer as We Know It?" It struck a chord because it articulated a shift many of us feel in our bones: the ground is moving beneath our feet. The traditional, well-defined corporate network has dissolved into a sprawling, borderless ecosystem of public clouds, SaaS platforms, and the vast, untamed internet. The old role, focused on the care and feeding of devices within our four walls, is no longer sufficient.
Harnessing AppNeta's Browser- and HTTP-based Workflows to Track User Experience
These days, maintaining uptime of your servers and other infrastructure elements remains as critical as ever—but it’s not enough. Quite simply, even the best server reliability metrics won’t mean a thing if the user experience is poor. What truly matters is understanding the service levels your users experience, whether they’re accessing apps through a web browser or interacting with API-based services.
Leveraging Datacenter Proxies for Scalable and Secure IT Operations
In today's digital-first environment, organizations rely on efficient and secure online operations to remain competitive. From data-driven marketing to global e-commerce, scalability is essential. Therefore, datacenter proxies have become a critical tool for businesses seeking reliable performance, anonymity, and global reach. By integrating these proxies into IT infrastructures, teams gain both speed and flexibility without compromising security.
Complete Guide to HAProxy Visibility Using Promtail and Loki
HAProxy is the workhorse in front of countless APIs and apps because it’s fast, lean, and flexible. Because it sits on the traffic hot path, it’s also your earliest warning system when something slows down or breaks entirely. This means that monitoring it isn’t optional. You need to see connection queues and retries, per-stage timings, health-check failures, and spikes in error statuses to catch incidents before users do.
What is SNMP Trap: Real-Time Alerts for Network Monitoring
Why wait for the next poll? An SNMP trap is a real-time alert sent from a device to a monitoring system, without waiting for polling. Ever had a router die silently at 3 AM while your monitoring system was still polling away every 5 minutes? Yeah… not fun. That’s where SNMP traps step in. Think of them as the push notifications of network monitoring: instant, lightweight, and sometimes misunderstood.
Certificate Rotation with Progress-powered Solutions
Don’t let expired certificates put your organization at risk! Progress WhatsUp Gold makes it easy to discover, manage, and automate certificate lifecycles across your network. With powerful automation from Progress Infrastructure solutions, you can rotate and manage certificates without a manual routine to maintain compliance and security. Schedule updates, push certificates to thousands of nodes and maintain governance with built-in traceability. Experience simplicity, scalability and seamless integration with Progress-powered solutions.
Telemetry Now Teaser: "What's the real cost of delivering this traffic?"
Why is it so difficult to answer the age-old question CFOs are asking, "What's the real cost of delivering this traffic?" Complex billing structures and cost modeling are only part of it. Lauren Basile joins Phillip Gervasi to discuss turning network telemetry into financial insight in the latest episode of Telemetry Now.