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WhatsUp Gold Lesson: How Do I Configure a Device to Monitor My Voice over IP (VoIP) SLA?

WhatsUp Gold provides specialized Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring necessary for tracking Quality of Service (QoS) and SLA metrics for your network of deployed VoIP devices (telephones, conference room devices and more). After you discover and configure devices for VoIP monitoring, you can view results and graphs on the WhatsUp Gold Custom Performance Monitors dashboard.

Finding & Fixing Asymmetric Routing Issues

Asymmetric routing is a situation in which packets take one path to go from source to destination, but replies take a different path to return. Notice I called it a “situation” and not an “issue”? That’s because it’s not always a problem. It only becomes a problem where there’s something stateful in the path, like a NAT device or a firewall.

How to collect metrics and logs for NGINX using the OpsAgent

The Ops agent is Google’s recommended agent for collating your application’s telemetry data, and forwarding them to GCP for visualization, alerting and monitoring. The Ops agent collates logs and a metrics collector into one single powerhouse. Some of the key advantages of using the Ops agent are outlined below.