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Announcing Cloud Pathfinder: Network GPS for Infrastructure Teams

Today, we’re excited to launch Cloud Pathfinder, an AI-powered path assessment service built into Kentik Journeys. Read on to learn how Cloud Pathfinder gives you instant, turn-by-turn insight into cloud routing—mapping out every hop, gateway, VPC/VNet, and attachment along the way.

Understanding Docker monitoring: A comprehensive list of key Docker metrics

In today’s fast-paced development landscape, containerization has become a cornerstone for deploying scalable and efficient applications. Docker, as one of the most popular container platforms, offers a robust environment for building and running containers. However, with great power comes the need for greater scrutiny, i.e., Docker monitoring or observability. Understanding Docker metrics is key to maintaining optimal performance and ensuring your containerized applications run smoothly.

Prometheus Monitoring in 5 Minutes: Set Up Your First Alert

Prometheus is an open-source toolkit for systems monitoring and alerting, designed to collect and store metrics as time-series data. It was initially created at SoundCloud, and has since become essential in the cloud-native ecosystem, benefiting from a powerful query language, dependable alerting functionality, and a pull-based architecture. Prometheus effectively monitors rapidly changing container environments, microservices, and cloud infrastructure. Its main benefits include.

Monitoring Time to First Byte TTFB with the Performance Observer API #coding #frontend #programming

Discover why Time to First Byte (TTFB) is crucial for website speed in this essential Concepts of Web Performance tutorial with Todd Gardner from Request Metrics. Perfect for junior web developers learning performance optimization, this concise guide explains exactly what TTFB measures—the critical waiting period between a user's initial request and your server's first response. Learn how TTFB encompasses redirects, DNS lookups, SSL negotiations, server processing time, and geographical distance, making it the first blocking step in your page's loading sequence.

What is Time to First Byte (TTFB) - The Concepts of Web Performance

Discover why Time to First Byte (TTFB) is crucial for website speed in this essential Concepts of Web Performance tutorial with Todd Gardner from Request Metrics. Perfect for junior web developers learning performance optimization, this concise guide explains exactly what TTFB measures—the critical waiting period between a user's initial request and your server's first response. Learn how TTFB encompasses redirects, DNS lookups, SSL negotiations, server processing time, and geographical distance, making it the first blocking step in your page's loading sequence.

Maximizing ROI in server monitoring: A strategic approach for businesses

According to the 2024 Statista report on global crucial data center IT outages from 2020-2023 , power disruptions have become the leading cause of outages, rising from 37% in 2020 to 52% in 2023. This shift highlights an increasing vulnerability in infrastructure reliability, making proactive server monitoring more critical than ever. Want to see real-world examples? Check out our blog on major outages in 2024 , what caused them, and key lessons for businesses.