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Introducing AI Platform Traffic Visibility in Kentik

Generative AI has quickly emerged as a distinct over-the-top (OTT) traffic category, yet service providers have lacked the visibility to track it. Kentik now identifies traffic from 35+ AI services across 28 providers, showing operators how it enters their networks, where it’s growing, and what it costs to deliver.

Governance Starts at the Network: How We Put AI Agents in Production

AI agents are becoming a new persona in the org chart. Learn how Qovery enforces data control, limited access, and auditability at the network level. Romain is a staff engineer at Qovery working on the control plane and AI integrations. He writes about distributed systems, incident response, and MCP-based tooling.

How to Get Higher Network Availability

Reduce downtime and build a more resilient network with our practical tips for improving network availability. By Serena Toh and Matt Madawi Table of Contents Network availability is more than a technical metric (though it is an important one). The availability of your network is the difference between applications that keep serving customers and applications that stall when a link, device, data center, or provider fails.

Bring Your Own VLAN: Moving VMs to Kubernetes Without Changing a Single IP

For many organizations, modernizing their VMs before migrating them is not a realistic option, especially when external events trigger the migration. Mapping dependencies and refactoring network configurations before the deadline is impractical, forcing VMs to move as they are. The mechanics of moving a VM are largely solved.

The NAS Died. My WhatsUp Gold Server Died With It. WhatsUp Gold 360 Still Alerted Me.

The NAS Died. My WhatsUp Gold Server Died With It. WhatsUp Gold 360 Still Alerted Me. A real home-lab failure shows why always-on external monitoring and cloud-originated notifications matter when the local monitoring stack becomes part of the outage. On April 13, 2025, the NAS providing NFS storage to several virtual machines in my Proxmox lab locked up and halted.

Why IT Teams Choose WhatsUp Gold Over Datadog

Thinking about moving away from Datadog? If your priority is network visibility, operational efficiency, and faster time-to-value, WhatsUp Gold offers a purpose-built alternative designed around the needs of IT operations teams. Watch this video comparing Datadog and WhatsUp Gold to learn more.

Why Every Business Needs Network Automation and Orchestration in 2026

Picture a network engineer at 2am, logged into forty devices, making the same change by hand on each one. One typo on device thirty-one, and by morning half the company cannot reach its own applications. That is not a horror story. For a lot of businesses, it is still Tuesday.

What's New in DX NetOps Topology: Summer 2026

Your enterprise network is more distributed, diverse, and complex than ever before. Your campus, WAN, data center, and SD-WAN environments span multiple technologies and vendors. Now more than ever, the complex relationships between devices, interfaces, and network layers are critical to your day-to-day operations. When an issue arises, knowing that something is wrong is only the beginning.

Firewall High Memory Usage: How to Troubleshoot and Fix It

A firewall running low on memory rarely fails all at once. It degrades first. Connections drop intermittently, policies take longer to process, and by the time the device becomes unresponsive, the problem has been building for days or weeks. This article walks through what firewall memory usage actually means, what causes it to climb, how to spot the symptoms early, and how to troubleshoot and fix it before it takes your network down with it.