Introducing an Application Performance Management (APM) and Distributed Tracing tool is key to keeping a distributed software ecosystem healthy. We use this fundamental tool to track our platform performance and better understand how requests are flowing through our infrastructure and to trace internal service performance.
At ThousandEyes we are building the Endpoint Agent to measure end-user digital experience when accessing networked services from inside or outside the corporate network. The Endpoint Agent is a cross-platform system service, running on macOS and Windows, that conducts network tests and collects performance data from web browser sessions in…
At ThousandEyes, we’re on a mission to increase your visibility into the network. However, sometimes the network experiences issues when you’re not looking. That’s where alerting comes in! Our purpose-built alerting system is the ever-vigilant watchers on the walls, ensuring you’re made aware of anomalies as soon as they happen.…
Keeping track of the size of a Kafka topic and watching it vary over time helped us uncover unexpected patterns that might seem mysterious to the inexperienced cluster administrator. Even with limits set, the reported size can vary vastly. Periodic spikes upon deletion of data can be seen, with a…
Website performance depends on a number of external factors such as network latency, server load and the use of a CDN. A good metric of a website’s performance is Response Time, which measures how quickly a web server is able to respond back to a client’s request for a web…