APIs have quickly become an essential building block in modern-day application architectures, both for quick and easy access to services within the app itself and for access from external services. On average, it is estimated that developers use between 10 to 15 APIs per application. As these API-centric applications move…
When it comes to measuring how end users experience different websites, apps or services, being able to gather data from the user’s perspective is critical. One of the ways we gather that intelligence is through our Endpoint Agent, which is deployed on end-user devices. It gathers data about the browsing…
Hope the Fall season is treating you all well. We are really excited to give you some colorful updates to get you better insights into your applications, and networks. Without more ado, here is all the exciting stuff we have come up with since August: Endpoint Agents can now monitor…
Over the past couple of years we have seen our customers increasingly use ThousandEyes to monitor their applications and services hosted in IaaS providers. As a part of our continued support for IaaS performance monitoring, and as part of my summer internship here at ThousandEyes, I was assigned a research…
On June 1st, 2018, Philips debuted a new service for its Hue smart-home lighting product, but things quickly went dark when the cloud-based API endpoint with which remote apps and services communicate went down for four hours. As The Register put it in its snarkily titled article, Smart bulbs turn…
