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Insights on network monitoring, infrastructure, and DevOps.

Read articles from the trcr team covering traceroute analysis, ICMP ping monitoring, HTTP health checks, DNS troubleshooting, iperf3 bandwidth testing, and best practices for shipping network telemetry to Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, and PostgreSQL. Learn how to deploy distributed monitoring with the master/agent architecture and full mesh probing.

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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 iperf3 bandwidth testing, and using distributed master/agent architectures for multi-site monitoring.