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Free network monitoring: Full network visibility without the cost

Investing in a network monitoring tool should mean complete visibility and faster troubleshooting. But what happens when an unexpected outage occurs and your expensive tool misses the warning signs? The result: hours of downtime, frustrated employees, and lost business productivity. Many organizations face this challenge, realizing that even premium monitoring solutions can leave critical gaps. The good news? You don’t have to break the bank to monitor your network effectively.

How to Optimize Mobile App Performance on iOS & Android

Is your mobile application struggling with frequent slowdowns during testing? Are you tired of the constant buffering and crashing your app faces whenever you test it? Every developer has come face-to-face with poor app performance in one way or another. From slow loading times to frequent crashes, these moments of friction can lead to a poor user experience, which can resign your app to a fate of inevitable obscurity in the competitive app marketplace.

What is Network Availability: Your Guide to 99.9 Uptime

In the fast-paced world of network admins, where data flows like the heartbeat of an organization, network availability is the top priority. For admins, it's not just another term, it's a make-or-break factor for the success and smooth operation of everything they manage. In a world where we're all plugged in and counting on the constant exchange of info, getting network availability right is absolutely critical.

Breaking Free from Legacy Observability: Why Service Providers Choose Kentik Over Deepfield

Modern network operators need modern observability tools. In this post, we explore why Deepfield — a traditional network flow analytics platform — falls short in providing comprehensive insights required for today’s network operations, and how Kentik’s modern data platform is purpose-built for today’s infrastructure teams.

SolarWinds Observability 2025.1: Big Cloud Updates for GCP, AWS & Azure!

New cloud support has landed in SolarWinds Observability 2025.1! Now with expanded monitoring for Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure, you can track even more cloud entities with ease. What’s new? Google Cloud – Now supports Google Compute Engine Azure – New support for Azure App Service & Blob Storage AWS – Expanded RDS support (MySQL, Aurora, PostgreSQL, Oracle) + Load Balancer monitoring See it in action! We explore the latest dashboards and drill into cloud resources like virtual machines, databases, and storage.

From Downtime to Peak Performance: How IT Network Support Can Help Your Business Thrive

Businesses today rely heavily on technology to operate efficiently. Whether handling internal communications, storing sensitive customer data, or managing online transactions, a well-maintained IT network is the backbone of modern business operations. However, many companies face downtime, cybersecurity threats, and performance issues due to poorly managed IT networks.

CLM Chowder: Digging Into the Cloud Latency of Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI

CLM Chowder is a new series which highlights notable observations of cloud connectivity surfaced by Kentik’s Cloud Latency Map. In this edition, we look at measurements from Alibaba (China), latency swings from South Africa, and a temporary latency jump from Marseilles to Asia.

Securing Private Network Access with Cloudflare Tunnel

For many, Cloudflare provides an essential suite of network security tools that their organization integrates with deeply. One such tool is "Cloudflare Tunnel" - a secure way to connect resources to Cloudflare without a publicly routable IP address. When deploying sensitive applications to Cycle, Cloudflare Tunnel can be leveraged to ensure all traffic is routed through Cloudflare before reaching your environment's load balancer. This extra layer of security provides quite a few benefits.

Enhance Network Performance Management With Next-Gen AIOps: Configuring Integration of DX Spectrum With DX Operational Observability

To unlock the power of observability and advanced analytics of AIOps, teams need to collect exceptional monitoring data, establish connections and correlations between the data, and understand context with the help of robust and current topological maps. Because modern networks often span on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures, monitoring their performance and troubleshooting issues can be difficult. These complex infrastructures often lead to observability gaps for network teams.