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Meta, LinkedIn, and Comcast Outages, Explained | Pulse Update
Over a two-day period this past week, major social media platforms—Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, LinkedIn, and Discord—all experienced disruptions. In the same timefr...
AT&T Outage and Disruptions at Google Cloud, Front, and More | Pulse Update
Load is a fundamental but, at times, challenging variable for networks and operations teams to handle. In the past few weeks, ThousandEyes saw various load-related pro...
Square Outage, Data Center Issues & Planning for Resiliency | Pulse Update
When outages happen, it’s what you do next that matters. It’s important to have a backup plan in place that you can quickly activate to minimize the impact of an incid...
Security, Great Digital Experiences & Why Visibility Matters
The ThousandEyes Internet Intelligence team joins us from Cisco Live in Amsterdam, talking about a major theme from the event—security.Tune in to hear their thoughts o...
Understanding the Microsoft Teams & Azure Disruptions | Pulse Update
What happened during the recent Microsoft Teams and Azure disruptions? Go under the hood of these incidents and also explore other recent disruptions in this week’s Pu...
Unpacking Recent ChatGPT Issues & Other Outage News | Pulse Update
What caused recent dips in performance for OpenAI’s ChatGPT? Tune in to hear The Internet Report team unpack this and other recent disruptions, including a hack that l...
2023 Internet Outage Trends & the New Outage Landscape | Pulse Update
As they launch into 2024, organizations are facing a different outage landscape than they had at the start of 2023. The past year saw increases in cloud service provid...
Insights From the Ghosts of NetOps Past, Present, and Future
As 2023 comes to a close, in the spirit of Dickens’ holiday classic “A Christmas Carol,” let’s reflect on the valuable insights left by the ghosts of network operation...
Peering Issues, Internet Resilience, and Cloud Outage News | Pulse Update
Recent changes appeared to trigger a series of events for two peering points internationally—with very different impacts. Tune in to learn more about these incidents, ...
Scaling To Meet the Black Friday Demand: Tips for IT Teams
As companies gear up for Black Friday, The Internet Report team shares some best practices for delivering great customer experiences and minimizing downtime during one...
Understanding the Recent Workday and Cloudflare Outages | Pulse Update
Backend-related incidents have been a recurring theme in outages across 2023, caused by everything from data center issues and hardware mishaps to failures at common (...
Halloween Special: Ghosts of Outages Past
This Halloween, The Internet Report team is sharing some of their most thrilling (and chilling) networking tales.Pull up a chair (and a big bowl of your favorite Hallo...
Insights From Outages at Citibank, DBS, and Other News | Pulse Update
In recent weeks, back-end infrastructure work and other backend-related issues impacted various online and consumer banking services, including DBS and Citibank in Sin...
Talking Data Freshness + Slack, Cloudflare, and Google Outages | Pulse Update
Outages and degradations can happen when underlying data isn’t fresh enough. In recent weeks, stale data may have contributed to incidents at both Slack and Cloudflare...
Internet Outages: Why One Small Link Can Break the Whole Chain | Pulse Update
Providing great digital experiences relies on a complex service delivery chain. The past few weeks brought multiple reminders that the root cause of cloud and app disr...
Data Center Disruptions, Square Down, and More News | Pulse Update
In a world that operates at “hyperscale,” the potential for hyperscale-sized problems is also very real. The measure of a good provider—and a well-engineered system—is...
Disruptions at Slack and X + Thoughts on “Take Twos” | Pulse Update
An outage occurs, a change is rolled back, and everything stabilizes. But what happens when the change is attempted a second time?These second tries often go much more...
An August Slack Outage and Why Context Matters | Pulse Update
Context matters when working on a distributed web-based application or service where everything is linked and dependent on each part functioning correctly. It’s all to...
SharePoint Outage and Security Certificate Considerations | Pulse Update
In an end-to-end service delivery chain, isolated changes can have broad consequences. This played out recently when an erroneous SSL certificate change at Microsoft a...
Azure Disruption, Meta App Issues, and Navigating Edge Cases | Pulse Update
Let’s face it. Not every contingency can be planned for. Sometimes an outlier scenario pops up and causes an unexpected outage or disruption.Over the past few weeks, m...
A Front Door, But No House: Explaining Application Outages | Pulse Update
The application opens, but users encounter errors when they try to do anything—what gives? It’s the curious case of the disappearing backend. Discover why application ...
Application Outages Up in 2023—What to Know | Pulse Update
Though network outages are still far more common, application outages seem to be increasing in 2023—and having bigger impacts. Tune in to learn more about this trend a...
Is Spring Cleaning Causing an Outage Spike? | Pulse Update
For three consecutive years, there appears to have been a spike in outages and degradations in May. A potential “spring cleaning effect” may explain why. Tune in to le...
How Outages Can Impact Distributed Dev Teams | Pulse Update
Tune in to explore ways that outages can impact distributed software development teams and what companies can learn from recent incidents at GitHub, Google Cloud, and ...
Redundancy in the Cloud Era: Two Case Studies | Pulse Update
When it comes to your technology strategy, it's a good idea to have more than one way to access every resource—just in case. As IT environments have changed, so has th...
The Anatomy of an Outage | Pulse Update
Understanding the unique characteristics of different kinds of Internet outages can help you quickly recognize the type of incident you’re dealing with and take the ri...
Chatting About the ChatGPT Outage and Other Outage News | Pulse Update
This week’s Pulse Update unpacks OpenAI’s ChatGPT outage and discusses why the outage actually represented a pragmatic move on the part of OpenAI. We’ll also discuss g...
Understanding the UK Virgin Media Outages on April 4 | Outage Deep Dive
On April 4, 2023, Virgin Media UK (AS 5089) experienced two outages that impacted the reachability of its network and services to the global Internet. The two outages ...
Exploring Application Errors at Okta, Twitch, Reddit & GitHub | Pulse Update
HTTP 403, 503, and 504 status codes dominated the last few weeks as multiple companies experienced application degradations and outages. These incidents at companies l...
Twitter Performance in the Elon Era, a Ransomware Attack & More Outage News | Pulse Update
It was an eventful fortnight on the Internet as Twitter, Dish Network, Akamai, and Ticketek Australia all experienced outages. Tune into our latest episode for insight...