You know the feeling when you are peacefully cruising through your day as a network admin and suddenly, bam! Wi-Fi at the entire head office decides to play hide-and-seek, leaving you stuck in no man’s land. All you hear from everyone is “Fix it now!”. Frustrating, right? That's where network monitoring swoops in to save your day.

Within the dynamic landscape of container orchestration, Kubernetes stands as a transformative force, reshaping the landscape of deploying and managing containerized applications. At the core of Kubernetes' capabilities lies its sophisticated networking model, a resilient framework that facilitates seamless communication between microservices and orchestrates external access to applications. Among the foundational elements shaping this networking landscape are Kubernetes Services and Ingress.

Deploying or migrating to a new service infrastructure within your business is always an exciting, but highly stressful venture. In order for a new service deployment or migration to be successful, businesses need to plan and prepare beforehand. A network assessment is the surest and easiest way for businesses to prepare their network for a deployment or migration without any hiccups.

Deploying an infrastructure in the cloud has become THE standard across the industry. According to O’Reilley Research, more than 90% of organizations are on the cloud or are using it in some capacity. As reported by Precedence Research, cloud deployment will surpass $1 trillion by the year 2028. But with the adoption of a new platform comes the need for tools and best practices to keep it up and running efficiently, which includes cloud-based monitoring.

Orange España, Spain’s second largest mobile operator, suffered a major outage on January 3, 2024. The outage was unprecedented due to the use of RPKI, a mechanism designed to protect internet routing security, as a tool for denial of service. In this post, we dig into the outage and the unique manipulation of RPKI.

From speaking with IT professionals, clients, and employees from other network-reliant departments, our team has put together a list of the 10 most asked network performance and network questions to give you a basic understanding of network performance. With many businesses booming, and remote work on the rise, monitoring your business’ network performance has become more important than ever.

In an age of connectivity, identifying IP addresses within your network is crucial for maintaining, managing, and protecting your network infrastructure. Your network may include printers, routers, IoT devices, computers, and servers. Trying to identify them manually can be daunting, as it may take time and be error prone. Thus, you need an efficient solution to scan IP addresses. How to Scan a Network for All IP Addresses? Scanning a Network With IP Scanners 6 Best IP Scanners 1.

As businesses transition to the cloud, the need for strategic implementation of Cloud Network Monitoring has become essential. This is because IT managers and CIOs across organizations are looking for robust real-time monitoring, performance optimization, and security vigilance for their distributed network. If you’re also thinking of cloud networking monitoring and want to know more about it in detail, continue reading this article further.

The year might be ending, but the Kentik news never stops. We’re back with our bite-sized roundup of everything you might have missed at Kentik in December 2023.