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 problems impact organizations including Google Cloud, Front, several Australian banks, and Minnesota State University Moorhead.

Tune in to learn more about what happened during these incidents, as well as hear our commentary on the recent outage impacting AT&T. Use the timestamps below to jump to the sections that most interest you:

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro

00:59 AT&T outage impacts cellular services nationwide

04:40 Australian banks appear to lose online and app-based services for 24 hours

07:46 Google Cloud metadata store faces sudden demand spike

09:19 Front’s “large unexpected increase in web traffic”

10:23 Box experiences outage as third-party network component fails

11:23 Minnesota State University Moorhead’s case study on good visibility

12:44 Outage trends: By the numbers

15:35 Get in touch 

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- Internet Outages Timeline: https://www.thousandeyes.com/resources/internet-outages-timeline?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=na_fy24q3_internetreportpulse30_podcast

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ABOUT THE INTERNET REPORT:

This is the Internet Report, a podcast uncovering what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. 

Tune in every other week for the Pulse Update series to hear from the Internet experts at ThousandEyes as they share the latest data on ISP outages, public cloud provider network outages, collaboration app network outages, and more. 

Then, the hosts dig into the most interesting outage events from the prior week, examining popular service outages and discussing what went awry—was it the Internet, or an application issue?

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- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-internet-report/id1506984526

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