This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this week’s episode, Archana and I discuss a small number of outages that hit certain regions of the globe over the past week. This includes an outage that caused a midday disruption for people trying to connect to Reddit, a weekend DNS issue at…
Last month I presented Dissecting Significant Outages from 2014 to several hundred networking experts at UKNOF30 in London. The talk highlighted ways to find insights from active monitoring in order to diagnose and mitigate network outages and threats. We covered the Craigslist DNS Hijack, Indosat BGP Hijack/Leak, Country Financial BGP…
At ThousandEyes we often get asked which network performance metrics are best. There’s no one correct answer, but here is a quick guide to navigating network performance metrics and their associated tests.
In the late evening of January 26th, Facebook had its largest outage in more than four years. For approximately an hour both Facebook and Instagram (owned by Facebook) were completely down, along with numerous other affected sites such as Tinder and HipChat.
Today we’ll focus on DNS alerting, continuing on the alerting theme from our previous post on Proactive BGP Alerting. To get us on the same page, let’s quickly review the types of DNS data you can monitor. There are two primary ways to collect DNS data in ThousandEyes
Barclays is one the world's largest financial institutions and launched their first Technology Open Innovation Challenge in London in 2013. Their second event was here in Silicon Valley, where around 200 of the Bay Area’s most innovative startups were nominated, from which 70 were short-listed to present to the Barclays…