Welcome to Heavy Networking, a uniquely nerdy podcast that puts the network at the center of the universe where it belongs.

Today is a sponsored show with ThousandEyes and we’re going to feast on a smorgasbord of topics: first, a new synthetic transaction monitoring tool from ThousandEyes.

Second, we’ll discuss why performance monitoring is critical to your SD-WAN readiness and ongoing operations.

Third, we’ll explore postmortems on a couple of 2019’s Internet outages, including a major route leak that affected CloudFlare, and what that means when you’re relying on the Internet for critical business applications.

Our guests from ThousandEyes are Alex Henthorn-Iwane, VP of Product Marketing; and Angelique Medina, Director of Product Marketing.

Show Links:

ThousandEyes

Browser Synthetic Monitoring – ThousandEyes

Introducing Internet-Aware Synthetic Transaction Monitoring – ThousandEyes Blog

ThousandEyes Addresses Critical Enterprise Application Performance Visibility Gap With Internet-Aware Synthetics – ThousandEyes

ThousandEyes for Application Delivery – ThousandEyes (PDF)

Visibility for Your Hybrid WAN and SD-WAN Traffic – ThousandEyes

Cloudflare Users Burned by Internet Routing Pile-Up – ThousandEyes

WhatsApp Disruption: Just One Symptom of Broader Route Leak – ThousandEyes

Internet Outage Reveals Reach of China’s Connectivity – ThousandEyes