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Imperva Network Architect, Wallace Lee, shares how Kentik helps teams drill deeper than traditional reporting tools to improve network and customer experience. Wallace shares how, during a live architecture review, Imperva’s Kentik power users answered a critical “are we safe?” traffic question in seconds. Kentik enables engineers to instantly understand prefix-level bandwidth and shows exactly which ASN and ISP traffic came from. Wallace also highlights how Kentik makes Anycast traffic visibility an “easy win,” helping teams move from questions to confident decision-making fast.

What happens when observability grows faster than infrastructure? In this episode of Heartbeat Behind the Metrics, Hemachand Munagapati, Product Manager at Site24x7, reflects on over 15 years with the product and how the idea of a single pane of monitoring has shaped everything that followed.

How do you maintain 99.99 percent uptime across thousands of Kubernetes hosts and multiple cloud providers? Okta engineers explain why observability is critical to keeping authentication and authorization services running at scale. Watch how Okta uses Datadog to bring metrics, logs, and traces into a single view, speed up root cause analysis, and reduce time to mitigation while controlling costs.

"When we started, maybe ten percent of our traffic went to a CDN. Now it's ninety percent on the CDNs or local caches and ten percent goes to transit. We've really flipped the whole script." — John Lubeck, Midco.

This is how PayPal reduced latency by 24% while increasing security and convergence across their business units. By utilizing a Universal Mesh built on the foundation of HAProxy, they were able to build a private connectivity layer despite major IP overlaps.