Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

February 2025

Are Cyber Threats Your White Whale?

Are cyber threats your white whale? Relentless? Unpredictable? And always lurking just beneath the surface? You wouldn’t chase a White Whale without the right crew and firepower—so why navigate the cyber seas unprotected? With continuous monitoring, rapid threat detection, and expert defense, N-able keeps your business afloat—no matter what dangers lie beneath. So you're the threat hunter, not the hunted.

SolarWinds 2025.1: New Network Device Support You Need to See!

Discover what’s new in SolarWinds Platform 2025.1! This update brings expanded network device support for Aruba, Fortinet, Ruckus Smart Zone Wireless, and Extreme Networks. Get hardware health insights, Layer 2 & 3 metrics, VLAN details, routing table utilization, and more!

Evaluating Cloud Gateways for Cost and Performance

Cloud networking costs can escalate due to inefficient routing and limited visibility. Kentik’s cloud visibility and analytics solution helps engineers optimize transit, reduce costs, and improve performance by analyzing AWS Transit Gateways and exploring alternatives like direct peering, storage endpoints, and AWS CloudWAN.

Building Production-Ready AI Infrastructure: How Megaport and Vultr Are Solving the Enterprise Challenge

In bridging traditional enterprise environments with modern GPU resources, we're helping organizations build AI infrastructure that's truly ready for production workloads. Co-authored by Duncan Ng, Vice President Solutions Engineering, Vultr As enterprises move from AI experimentation to production deployment, most are realizing a fundamental truth: Successful AI adoption requires more than just access to GPU computing power.

Modernize Your NOC: A 2025 Guide to Reducing IT Costs and Protecting Profits

You can no longer afford to ignore the silent profit killers lurking in your operations. From bloated IT budgets to unplanned downtime and inefficient incident management, these hidden costs can drain your revenue, eroding customer trust, and exposing your company to financial penalties. The solution? A radical shift toward lean and modern Network Operations Centers (NOCs), digital resilience, and a relentless pursuit of inefficiencies.

Scraping NGINX Metrics with OpenTelemetry & Exporting to Carbon

Looking for a straightforward way to collect NGINX metrics with OpenTelemetry and send them to your Graphite-based monitoring setup? Unlike Prometheus, which requires configuring scrape jobs and query language nuances, Carbon/Graphite offers a simpler setup with minimal overhead—just send metrics as plain text and query them easily with familiar tools like Grafana. Whether you're setting up dashboards, alerts, or just keeping an eye on traffic, this guide will get you actionable insights in no time!

What's New in Calico: Winter 2025

As we kick off the new year, we’re excited to introduce the latest updates to Calico, designed to create a single, unified platform for all your Kubernetes networking, security, and observability needs. These new features help organizations reduce tool sprawl, streamline operations, and lower costs, making it more convenient and efficient to manage Kubernetes environments.

How to Troubleshoot An Internet Local Loop Issue | Obkio Use Case Series

Is your Internet connection acting up? In this video, we’ll walk you through how to identify and troubleshoot an Internet Local Loop issue using Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring tool. Learn how to pinpoint the root cause of connectivity problems and ensure a reliable network for your business. What You’ll Learn: What an Internet Local Loop is How to detect Local Loop issues How Obkio helps you troubleshoot network problems.

The top 5 network security threats every CIO should know in 2025

During a routine network check, your network bandwidth monitoring tool flags an unusual spike in bandwidth usage from a critical server. Further investigation reveals an unauthorized data transfer attempt originating from a misconfigured device. What would have happened if the IT team did not have a monitoring tool to identify the spike? Without the right tools, this simple red flag could escalate into a costly disaster: ransomware, compliance fines, or even operational paralysis.

Think SSE and SASE Make Enterprise VPNs Obsolete? Think Again

New cybersecurity technologies and frameworks are always emerging, promising enhanced protection and streamlined operations. Among these, Security Service Edge (SSE) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) have gained significant attention for their comprehensive approach to network security. But despite the advent of these sophisticated solutions, enterprise VPNs still hold enduring value for data and application security.

Right Data, Right Now: Why Timely, Actionable Network Observability is Essential

For teams in many organizations, the work of IT and network management keeps getting more difficult. A recent EMA survey offers some findings that clearly illustrate this point. When respondents were asked which networking skills are the most difficult to find, several roles received a response of 30% or more, including network security, network monitoring and troubleshooting, and data center networking.

5 Ways to Avoid Alert Fatigue in Network Monitoring

Alert fatigue is the silent productivity killer in IT operations, and its impact is more significant than you might think. A 2023 survey by CloudHealth Technologies found that 63% of organizations deal with over 1,000 cloud infrastructure alerts every single day. 22% report receiving more than 10,000 alerts each day. This highlights the critical need to minimize alert fatigue.

Future-Proofing Your Network: A Deep Dive into Software-Defined WAN Technology

As businesses continue to scale and adopt innovative technologies, the need for robust network solutions becomes paramount. Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) technology emerges as a significant advancement, providing organizations with agility, improved performance, and cost-effective management. Unlike traditional networks, which often become cumbersome as they expand, SD-WAN enables seamless connectivity across various locations while optimizing bandwidth usage.

Introducing Megaport NAT Gateway

Cut your traditional NAT gateway costs by 70% or more with Megaport’s new software solution. For large businesses, Network Address Translation (NAT) is a must. But when speaking with our enterprise customers about the software side of their architecture, the complaint was always the same: The ballooning egress fees that come with moving massive amounts of data quickly become a major cost burden.

Strategic IP address management (IPAM): A must-have solution for high volume networks

Managing enterprise IT infrastructure isn’t just about staying afloat—it’s about being one step ahead with strategic IP address management in modern enterprise IT. Each day, IT teams grapple with network sprawl, security challenges, and the constant demand for scalability. But here’s a question: how does your enterprise manage its IP address space? If your answer is “manually” or “through spreadsheets,” it’s time to rethink your approach.

How to Strengthen Your Business's Cybersecurity Infrastructure

Safeguarding business data has never been more crucial, given that cyberattacks continue to evolve at such an alarming rate. One simple yet highly effective method to strengthen cybersecurity infrastructure for any size company is with reliable protection tools such as discounted LifeLock options. These tools help safeguard personal and professional information against identity theft or cyber-attacks - creating an invaluable first line of defense against potential risks.

How to Troubleshoot Networks with Employees Working from Home

With employees working from home, often relying on personal Internet connections and consumer-grade equipment, IT teams face a new set of challenges in ensuring seamless connectivity. Unlike traditional office environments, where networks are controlled and optimized, home networks are unpredictable and prone to a variety of issues – from slow Internet speeds to intermittent connectivity.

What's new with Google Cloud for 2025

Google Cloud remains the third-largest provider, holding a 13% share in the global cloud infrastructure services market. In Q3 2024, Google reported a 30% year-over-year revenue growth reaching $12 billion in sales. However, it is a competitive market so they are working hard to accelerate this momentum and drive future growth with developments in AI innovation and infrastructure investments.

What Does Low Network Bandwidth Mean & How to Fix It

Network performance is critical for everything from streaming videos to running cloud applications. But what happens when your network feels sluggish, and tasks that should take seconds suddenly take minutes? The culprit could be low network bandwidth. In this article, we’ll break down what low bandwidth means, how it affects your network, and actionable steps to fix it.

NGINX Log Monitoring: What It Is, How to Get Started, and Fix Issues

Ensuring that your web applications run smoothly and securely is essential. NGINX, known for its high performance and scalability, plays a key role in delivering web content. But to keep everything running efficiently, you need to monitor and analyze its logs properly. This guide will walk you through how to configure, analyze, and make the most of NGINX logs to stay on top of your server’s health.

What Is Network Device Monitoring? Find Out 5 Top Monitoring Tools

Businesses, organizations, and individuals rely on networks to communicate and exchange data. The rapid growth of technology and increasing reliance on networked systems have made robust network performance and security critical. However, maintaining optimal network performance and security is a difficult task. Network failures, security breaches, and performance bottlenecks can result in substantial financial losses and reputational damage. What Is Network Device Monitoring?

6 key steps to drive successful network automation in your enterprise

The complexity of modern networks has surged due to digital transformation, hybrid work models, and evolving security threats, making manual management increasingly unsustainable. Network automation addresses this challenge by streamlining operations and enabling networks to adapt and remain resilient in an ever-changing environment. A recent Gartner study predicts that by 2026, 30% of enterprises will automate more than half of their network activities.

Kentik - Cloud Observability

Kentik Cloud provides comprehensive visibility across all major public clouds, offering seamless insight into cloud-to-on-prem network paths and the public internet routes connecting them. Identify latency, loss, jitter, and application-specific traffic while providing deep visibility into cloud networking constructs like ACLs to spot security issues. With powerful analytics, Kentik Cloud enables you to visualize intra-cloud traffic, identify idle resources for optimization, and leverage historical data to uncover trends and seasonal patterns—ensuring optimal cloud performance and cost efficiency.

Taking a step towards network resilience: The importance of real-time alerts

Is your network prepared to handle unexpected disruptions, or are you constantly in fire-fighting mode? As organizations become increasingly reliant on uninterrupted connectivity, network downtime, slow response times, or undetected vulnerabilities can directly affect customer experience, employee productivity, and even your bottom line. So, how can you proactively address these challenges?

Wireless Network Management with Site24x7

Struggling with Wi-Fi connectivity issues? Wireless LAN controllers (WLCs) are the backbone of enterprise networks, but they’re not without challenges. From access point disconnections to overloaded controllers, even small issues can disrupt your operations. With Site24x7, you can proactively monitor and optimize your wireless network. Get real-time insights, detailed analytics, and instant alerts to troubleshoot problems before they impact users.

Empowering NOC Teams - Enhanced Workload Insights

In the dynamic landscape of cloud operations, Network Operations Centers (NOCs) are crucial in ensuring service reliability and performance. However, managing the diverse workloads of NOC teams can be challenging. At MoovingON, we are dedicated to providing solutions that enhance operational efficiency and cultivate a positive work environment for our engineers. To this end, we are excited to introduce a powerful new feature in our moovingon.ai platform: Enhanced Dashboards for Workload Management.

Reviewing Every New Feature in HAProxy 3.1

HAProxy 3.1 makes significant gains in performance and usability, with better capabilities for troubleshooting. In this blog post, we list all of the new features and changes. All these improvements (and more) will be incorporated into HAProxy Enterprise 3.1, releasing Spring 2025. Watch our webinar HAProxy 3.1: Feature Roundup and listen to our experts as we examine new features and updates and participate in the live Q&A.