Last week we took ThousandEyes Connect to the road and visited Seattle, bringing together network engineers, architects and site reliability teams to discuss network performance. Scott Hinckley, Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for Microsoft Dynamics 365, opened up the morning presentations.
As we discussed in our first post about benchmarking network performance in China, half of the battle of monitoring applications in China is setting new expectations for what performance should normally look like; often metrics like packet loss and latency will be significantly higher than outside the Great Firewall.
In this post from ThousandEyes Connect New York, we’ll summarize the talk by Scot Clark, Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions Manager at a Forbes Top 150 multinational consumer goods company. During his talk, Scot described how his company’s WAN has evolved, as well as the business’ continuing migration to the cloud.
When folks talk about end user or ‘real user’ monitoring, they usually mean injecting code (often Javascript) into an application to measure user behavior and timing. This can be great to complement an application monitoring strategy. But this sort of method doesn’t work when the application in question isn’t yours…
Monitoring synthetic web transactions to reproduce and track realistic workflows can be an integral part of evaluating website changes, benchmarking competitors and ensuring site performance. However, writing scripts to replicate these transactions can be tricky and terribly frustrating. If you use a recorder extension, you may need to patch up…
