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Notes from the trcr team on traceroute analysis, ping and DNS monitoring, HTTP health checks, throughput testing, and getting network telemetry into Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, and PostgreSQL.

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Topics We Cover

Our blog covers the tools, techniques, and best practices that network and DevOps engineers use every day to keep infrastructure reliable. Topics include:

Network Monitoring

How to use ICMP ping, traceroute, and DNS monitoring to detect latency spikes, packet loss, and routing changes before they impact users.

HTTP & API Health

Measuring web service performance with HTTP/HTTPS probes that break down DNS resolution, TCP connect, TLS handshake, TTFB, and transfer time.

Infrastructure Observability

Shipping network telemetry to Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, and PostgreSQL. Building dashboards in Kibana and Grafana for real-time visibility.

DevOps Best Practices

Deployment strategies, capacity planning with native throughput testing, and using distributed master/agent architectures for multi-site monitoring.