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…
In a MongoDB sharded cluster, it is recommended to run mongos locally within the application to avoid network overhead that can slow down database queries. But how does this fit into a decentralized architecture that most enterprises are shifting towards and more importantly, how does this recommended model fit within…
ThousandEyes is a network monitoring platform that provides deep insights and visibility into applications and networks in the cloud. Global Fortune 500 companies rely on ThousandEyes to monitor their business critical services. It’s absolutely mandatory for us to adhere to a high level of service availability, so our customers can…