Written by Angelique Medina and Archana Kesavan Yesterday, August 30th, CenturyLink/Level 3 suffered a major incident, lasting nearly 5 hours, that impacted their network, their customers, and many other ISPs and services either directly or indirectly connected to their network. The outage began at approximately 10AM UTC (6AM EST) and did not fully resolve until […]
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. In this week’s episode, we discuss two notable outages that happened last week. The first, at Twitter, took place on October 15 around 5:30 pm PST and impacted users’ ability to tweet or…
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. In this week’s episode, we dive into some recent outages at Slack that caused intermittent issues for its enterprise users for nearly a full day. One of the causes, as noted by Slack,…
The COVID-19 pandemic is an epic health crisis that has resulted in what is effectively the largest “work from home” experiment ever conducted in human history, enabled by the Internet. This puts employee productivity in the spotlight, as successful outcomes for digital workers are at the center of today’s business…
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On today’s episode, we take a look at the recent Azure AD disruption that significantly impacted access to Microsoft cloud services and apps (as well as third-party apps) for nearly three hours. We…
Following the release of the “Internet Performance Report: COVID-19 Impact Edition,” we spoke with Tony Finn, Regional Vice President - Northern EMEA at ThousandEyes, to discuss the future of the workplace and the IT challenges we will face in the upcoming months.