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Troubleshooting an Azure ExpressRoute with Kentik Cloud

Learn how to effectively troubleshoot your Azure ExpressRoutes using Kentik Cloud. This video offers a step-by-step walkthrough on diagnosing problems and obtaining crucial information on your ExpressRoute traffic, including instance name, application context, and the ExpressRoute circuit name. Uncover how to filter and visualize data to see the usage of your ExpressRoutes and identify potential problems. From monitoring dropped packets to inspecting ExpressRoute metadata, see how Kentik can provide you with a wealth of real-time information to help resolve issues quickly and efficiently.

Azure Cost Attribution by Subscription with Kentik Cloud

Maximize your network efficiency and cost management with Kentik Cloud. This video shows how Kentik Cloud's custom dashboards enable you to identify the bandwidth usage associated with each Azure subscription. Learn how to accurately allocate Azure costs to individual teams or business units, and track usage-based performance issues directly to the source. Empower your organization by aligning your hybrid cloud networking with your business needs through the comprehensive insights provided by Kentik Cloud.

Optimize Azure Costs and Boost Network Performance with Kentik

Explore how Kentik's cloud network observability tools can enhance your Microsoft Azure experience. This video demonstrates how Kentik's rich insights can help you troubleshoot faster, optimize costs, and answer questions about your network across major public clouds. Watch a real-world example of how you can use Kentik to identify under-utilized Azure firewalls, consolidate VNets, and effectively reduce your cloud bill. Discover how Kentik's connectivity, device, utilization, and performance data combined with real-time analysis can fast-track problem-solving and optimize resources.

Azure Virtual WAN Observability with Kentik Cloud

Unravel the complexities of managing your corporate network in the cloud with Kentik Cloud. This video highlights how Kentik Cloud provides a comprehensive, always up-to-date visualization of your hybrid Azure infrastructure, including your Virtual WAN configuration. Learn how to quickly and easily navigate through your infrastructure's architectural blueprint, delve into the performance of specific VWAN hubs, and access vital utilization details. See how Kentik Cloud can help turn tedious troubleshooting into an efficient, user-friendly process. Experience firsthand the power and convenience of having crucial network insights right at your fingertips.

Troubleshooting an Azure Load Balancer in Kentik Cloud

Achieve in-depth insight into your Azure Load Balancer performance with Kentik Cloud. This video demonstrates how to use Kentik's Data Explorer to filter and analyze Azure traffic, enabling you to evaluate your load balancer's effectiveness and investigate potential performance issues. Learn how to select and use various dimensions of enriched flow data and visualize the balance of traffic through your load balancer. Learn how Kentik can help answer critical performance questions within seconds, streamlining your troubleshooting process.

Safeguarding Cryptocurrency Exchanges: The Power of Machine Learning Monitoring

Bitcoin and Coinbase have been in some hot water lately. How they handle cryptocurrency might not be legal or safe. The lack of regulations is causing concern from the government about potential criminal activity, fraud, and money laundering. The good news? Rules are being implemented for crypto exchanges to stop corrupt events from happening. Regulations like Know Your Customer (KYC) are an absolute must for exchanges to keep operating legally.

An inside look at how React powers Grafana's frontend

Grafana dashboards enable millions of users to visualize and analyze their data. And working behind the scenes of the widely used open source platform is React, a frontend JavaScript library for building user interfaces. In this post — which was inspired by my recent presentation at React Summit 2023 in Amsterdam — we’ll explore why we chose to use React for Grafana, and the benefits and challenges we’ve seen along the way.

Decoding Logic App Dilemmas: Copying .gdoc files from Google Drive using Azure Logic App

Welcome again to another Decoding Logic App Dilemmas: Solutions for Seamless Integration! This time we selected a different problem but a very common scenario in Enterprise Integration: File transfer. But in this very particular case: How to copy.gdoc files from Google Drive into another place using Azure Logic App?

Open-sourcing sysgrok - An AI assistant for analyzing, understanding, and optimizing systems

In this post I will introduce sysgrok, a research prototype in which we are investigating how large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI's GPT models, can be applied to problems in the domains of performance optimization, root cause analysis, and systems engineering. You can find it on GitHub.