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Handling today’s network performance challenges is imperative. Especially when there’s no specific tool for proactive monitoring, results from a root cause analysis are often incomplete. Organizations that don’t review metrics related to performance and availability risk compromising their network.

Running network operations today is more complicated than ever before. Networks are growing in size and complexity due to modern network architecture adoption, but organizations are not hiring more staff to compensate for this increased complexity and demand. The prevailing mentality seems to be to do more with what you have.

Modern software applications involve multiple layers of code and services, working together to meet increasingly demanding user requirements. To achieve this, systems became distributed, providing improved scalability, fault tolerance, and complexity. However, this innovation brought new challenges to basic troubleshooting and performance monitoring to maintain the health of systems. It’s for these reasons that observability is trending.

Early this year we launched Kentik Market Intelligence (KMI). If you missed it, KMI enumerates transit and peering relationships as well as produces rankings based on the volume of IP space transited by ASes in different geographies. Using tables and charts, KMI offers a global view of the internet out-of-the-box without any configuration or setup. KMI uses public BGP routing data to rank ASes based on their advertised IP space.