How can network monitoring help understand online trading website performance? In the first days of February, 2018 the stock market went on a bit of wild ride, with high levels of volatility amidst heavy trading sessions. On February 5th, the Dow skidded almost 1600 points before recovering slightly to a…
Now that we have rung in the new year and settled into our daily routine, let's take a few minutes to reflect on the state of the Internet and key outages that shook the world in 2017. Over the past few years, as we analyze many such outage events, we've…
On Monday morning, November 6th 2017, from 9:45am-11:25am Pacific, Comcast suffered a nationwide outage sending several million users of the popular Internet Service Provider into a frenzy. Our analysis has revealed that Level 3 leaked over a thousand routes belonging to Comcast subsidiary networks and their customers. The immediate effect…
On Tuesday, July 25th, 2017 at 4:25am Pacific, all services related to Marketo’s domain “marketo.com” began experiencing an outage. The outage continues to have impacts at the time of writing. Marketo is a marketing automation software widely used by companies around the world—when Marketo went down on Tuesday, forms on…
Last week Rostelecom, one of Russia’s largest, partially state-owned Internet service providers, leaked dozens of routes pertaining to IP addresses that belong to major financial services firms. This route leak redirected Internet traffic bound for these financial firms to Rostelcom, as some routers around the Internet decided that the new,…