Name: How to monitor Kubernetes using synthetic testing
Start: 2022-05-12T17:22:00Z
End: 2022-05-12T17:22:30.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Kentik is the network observability company. Our platform is a must-have for the network front line, whether digital business, corporate IT or service provider. Network professionals turn to the Kentik Network Observability Cloud to plan, run and fix any network, relying on our infinite granularity, AI-driven insights and insanely fast search. Kentik makes sense of network, cloud, host and container flow, internet routing, performance tests and network metrics. We show networking pros what they need to know about their network performance, health and security to make their business-critical services shine. Networks power the world’s most valuable companies, and those companies trust Kentik for network observability. Market leaders like IBM, Box and Zoom rely on Kentik for network observability. Visit us at https://www.kentik.com and follow us at @kentikinc.

Modern applications residing in a third-party data center or cloud regions are composed of multiple services separated by a network path. Solving application performance requires identifying the source of the problem. Network pros need to quickly determine whether the application, the network or the internet is the cause.

In this webinar, Anil Murty and Sunil Kodiyan from Kentik’s product team introduce Kentik’s new page load and synthetic transaction testing capabilities, alongside existing network layer performance measurement features. Learn about: * An overview of Kentik and Kentik Synthetics * Why page load and transaction testing are important for optimal digital experience monitoring * How to reduce mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) by running network tests alongside web layer tests

Debug faster! measure web page and network performance together

Peering is more than just setting up sessions with any AS that will accept one. Peering can involve long-term relationships that require reviews and joint planning to grow synergy. A critical milestone in any peering relationship is the business review; and when it comes to business reviews, it’s all about preparation.

Learn how Kentik can help you get ready to ace business reviews with peering partners. What you’ll learn:

Picking the right topics
Collecting the data
Finding your BATNA (best alternative to negotiated agreement)
Creating an overview that demonstrates mutual benefit for both you and your partner.

How to prepare for a peering partner business review

Monitoring the network to stay ahead of problems is getting harder. The siloed device-centric hardware of the past does not work. IT departments are adopting new approaches to keep up with today’s complex, multi-vendor hybrid networks.

This webinar explains ten different ways to move from legacy monitoring to network observability.

What you’ll learn:

The advantages of SaaS-based network monitoring
Important capabilities of a network data platform
How you can monitor applications you don’t own
Collaboration between NetOps and DevOps teams
Applying AI and ML to network monitoring

10 Steps IT Should Take to Modernize Network Monitoring

As a network service provider, you want your customer to see that you consistently deliver excellent performance. You send your customers periodic reports — but those only provide a snapshot. With synthetic tests, you can present your customers with a dynamic report through a public web page, linkshare or a customer branded portal. Watch webinar replay to learn how Kentik’s API can be used with network performance meshes in Kentik Synthetics to build a live latency report. Kentik’s Anil Murty and Martin Machacek will show you: * Kentik Synthetics mesh tests and how can they be used to proactively monitor PoP to PoP performance * How to use public link shares to speed up root cause analysis with external partners * How to use Kentik’s API to showcase synthetic test results in customer service portals * Kentik’s open-source reference SLA web app for showcasing service provider network performance publicly

The value of performance mesh testing for service providers

BGP isn’t just for ISPs and hosting providers anymore. As we saw with Facebook’s historic outage, it’s now a necessity for digital enterprises to proactively monitor BGP. In this webinar, Director of Product Management Anil Murty introduces Kentik’s proactive BGP monitoring capabilities.

Why you should monitor BGP and where to start?

As an ISP, your operations are measured by cost, uptime and customer service. But how do you know if you’re on the right track to meet your service objectives? Take a step back, dig into the design and operation of ISP networks, and learn how data can help you meet your KPIs.

Use Data to Dig into ISP Networks

The last few months saw some of the most impactful outages in history. Kentik was there, analyzing what went wrong and sharing insights with the community. Join our Director of Internet Analysis Doug Madory and Solutions Engineer Steve Meuse for a review of the Facebook and AWS outages. They also discuss the ways Kentik helps to monitor and alert on the types of failures that took down these tech giants.

Learn from recent, disruptive outages: Prepare your network for 2022

If you haven’t heard of network observability yet, you will very soon. And you’ll be hearing it a lot. Some say it is just marketing hype. Some say networks have always been observable. But network observability is the most important new concept to hit the network performance monitoring space in years. Join Kevin to learn: * How we define network observability and where the term comes from * How to relate network observability to APM and DevOps * What vendors are doing about network observability * What you need to do to make network observability work for you

What is network observability and why you should care

Find out what NPM has become and why legacy solutions met their demise. Get in-depth details about these three must-have monitoring techniques: * BGP monitoring exposes attacks and route changes. * HTTP and API monitoring can isolate slowness not related to the network. * Traceroute uncovers internet trouble spots such as specific routers within ISPs. Discover why these technologies bring deeper visibility into how your company’s internet connections and applications are being impacted and by whom. Identify the third parties to reach out to when problems occur and see where to focus your optimization efforts.

What is network performance monitoring and how is it evolving in the cloud era?

Kentik product expert Justin Ryburn gives an overview and demonstration of Kentik Synthetic Monitoring, the industry’s first unified synthetic monitoring and network traffic analytics solution. Justin shows how to set up new synthetic tests, configure and understand performance meshes, shows Kentik's free SaaS application monitoring features, Kentik's network of global synthetic testing agents, and demonstrates how to deploy private agents in your own network infrastructure.

Digital Experience Monitoring with Kentik

In this webinar, we explain how—and why—tools like traceroute, when used as part of synthetic monitoring, provide deep insight into network problems such as SaaS or cloud application slowdowns. 

Founder and former CEO of Plixer, Michael Patterson, will demonstrate: 
* How to diagnose SaaS or cloud application slowdowns. 
* How to understand acceptable versus unacceptable performance. 
* How synthetic monitoring can be used to establish performance baselines and diagnose network issues.

How to Monitor Cloud Services ... and Why it Matters

Less than 3% of digital experience snafus are found before users are affected. You need to catch these problems before your users do. Join Anil to learn how synthetic network monitoring helps make digital experiences sparkle. Kentik Director of Product Management Anil Murty explains the basics of proactive synthetic testing and shows how you can use Kentik to: * Simulate user traffic to proactively detect and resolve outages or performance issues. * Track uptime and SLOs of critical networking constructs, services and paths. * Achieve reliable and performant deployments by adding synthetics into ops automation. * Monitor critical networking services proactively in production and eliminate poor networking performance across the user journey.

Digital Experience Monitoring: How to Proactively Monitor Network Performance

Public and hybrid cloud has led to a new era of agility, scale and performance, particularly for the networking that underlies enterprise applications. Yet, more than 80% say their network monitoring hasn’t kept up with major problems that need to be solved. A new approach is required – it’s network observability.

Join Kentik co-founder and CEO Avi Freedman as he discusses how to reduce networking issues and risks while continuing to allow your organization to innovate at the speed of cloud.

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how to:

* Gain visibility into all networks (public, on-prem, internet)
* Correlate across performance tests and traffic flows
* Enrich network telemetry for customer, application, cloud context
* Ask any questions unbounded and zoom to any granularity needed
* Automate routine security, performance, billing tasks without tedium or error

5 Problems Your Current Monitoring Can’t Solve (That Network Observability Can)

Kentik Cloud Solution Architect, Ted Turner, gives a brief overview and demonstration of Kentik's Hybrid Map features, showing how Kentik helps network professionals understand and visualize traffic to and from any type of network, including cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), traditional datacenters, LAN/WAN/SD-WANs, and container environments.

In this short video, Ted shows Kentik's Network Explorer, Kentik's Library of pre-built public cloud dashboards and explores the Hybrid Map, demonstrating how Kentik helps visualize and understand traffic to and from cloud services, the internet, and on-premises network infrastructure.

Hybrid Cloud Monitoring - Eliminate Visibility Gaps

Join Kentik’s chief product officer, Christoph Pfister, for this lively deep-dive into enterprise network challenges and the must-haves for network observability—featuring live, in-product demonstrations by Kentik product experts Anil Murty and Dan Rohan.

Watch this deep-dive into the network challenges enterprises at the intersection of mass cloud adoption, web-scale business, and distributed workforces face, and see why observability matters. Drawing from real-world use cases and demonstrated with aggregated, anonymized data in the Kentik Network Observability Cloud, Christoph and co-hosts cover:

* The five requirements for doing network observability right
* The criticality of the network + cloud + synthetic monitoring combo
* How to use full-stack telemetry to drive to better decisions
* The right metrics for the right use case
* Tips, tricks, and processes for getting the most out of a network observability program

Five Steps to Network Observability Nirvana

Synthetic Monitoring with Kentik

Do you know how your network is performing in virtual 2021? Do you have a good grasp on how your network is performing in the new year? In this on-demand webinar Justin Ryburn, Kentik Director of Solutions Engineering, explains how to identify gaps in your network visibility, and understand their impact in your ability to plan, run, and fix your network.

Justin helps you understand what you need to do to:

* Increase uptime and reduce MTTR
* Neutralize security attacks and analyze incidents
* Find opportunities for performance and cost optimizations
* Improve digital experience

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how you can get your customized Kentik Network Visibility Report! In your report, we’ll show you:

* Your network visibility and gaps
* The tie between visibility and network health
* Recommendations to close visibility gaps

Assess Your Visibility Gaps: How is Your Network Performing in 2021?

In this webinar, Anil Murty and Evan Hazlett will demonstrate how integrating Kentik Synthetics with your Kubernetes deployment enables you to proactively monitor without sacrificing reliability. You’ll learn:

How synthetic monitoring works and what it enables
Why it is important to monitor these services
The challenges in monitoring services deployed using Kubernetes
How you can automate monitoring

How to monitor Kubernetes using synthetic testing

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