Introducing Synthetics "State of the Internet" Page
We just introduced a new "State of the Internet Page" that helps you quickly answer the proverbial question "is it me (my network) or the Internet?"
From this newly created top-level page, you can quickly determine without having to build any complex test if any broader reachability issue outside of their reach is impacting the digital experience of your customers. We (Kentik) run tests from our global Synthetics agent fleet to various public network services and provide the data to you (our customers) for free.
This new page can be found in the navigation menu here:
Under this you'll find 3 tabs today with more planned in the future. The first measures performance of common SaaS applications that your organization uses. The second provides a quick view of the state of the common clouds (connectivity between their regions). And the third one provides uptime and availability of common DNS services.
While these measurements are from tests Kentik runs continuously from its global agents, you can customize (create your own version) of any of these from the pages, by clicking the little "customize" icon.