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What is Istio Service Mesh, and Do I Need It?

Development teams build modern applications using microservice architectures. Individual services are built and maintained by separate teams, and then these services are combined using container-based orchestrators to comprise a complete product offering. Microservices are a standard development method because they allow teams to iterate releases, providing ongoing new customer-facing features and bug fixes without needing to redeploy an entire platform or app.

How BGP propagation affects DDoS mitigation

Doug Madory, Kentik director of internet analysis, and Phil Gervasi, director of tech evangelism, discuss the nuance of coordinating the mitigation of a DDoS attack and how we can use Kentik to see the propagation of BGP announcements on the public internet before, during, and after the DDoS attack mitigation.

Announcing Rollbar Live In-App Chat Support

What’s better than great support? Live in-app support with a real person when you need it During the last two months we have been rolling out our live chat capability for all Rollbar users regardless of the plan you are on. That's right; you can now speak to a real person from our customer engineering team to help answer your product related question from within the Rollbar application. Our goal is to provide more support channels when you need it without having to wait for an answer.

How to monitor the impact of Puppet Runs using Hosted Graphite

In this article, we will look at what Puppet is and why it is important to monitor Puppet server metrics. We will also analyze the tools that help us monitor Puppet’s performance. Ultimately we will learn about the benefits of using Hosted Graphite by MetricFire to monitor Puppet server metrics. Sign up for MetricFire free trial today or book a demo with the MetricFire team to understand how you can take advantage of its monitoring solutions.

What is Cloud Application Performance Monitoring?

Due to its complex nature compared to the on-prem architecture, the cloud presents several challenges to maintaining observability in your apps. This is why you need a robust cloud monitoring solution to care for your cloud-based apps and your cloud. As more and more companies move their operations to the cloud, the need for cloud monitoring solutions continues to grow. Understanding the various aspects of cloud monitoring and how it affects your application is essential.

How BGP propagation affects DDoS mitigation

We often think of DDoS attacks as volumetric malicious traffic targeted against organizations that effectively take a service offline. Most frequently detected by anomalous behavior found in NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and BGP data, what may not be well understood is how the DDoS mitigation works and how it’s possible to visualize the effectiveness of the mitigation during and after an attack.