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thousandeyes.com
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thousandeyes.com is the company blog at thousandeyes.com, writing about systems and web. Since 2011, 43 different Hacker News readers have linked it 85 times, most often “Is there a wider internet outage today?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link ThousandEyes for its public internet outages map and its analyses of major cloud, CDN and BGP outages. One commenter also cited its annual free cloud network performance reports.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- Annual free reports on cloud network performance, described as quite comprehensive in covering various scenarios.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Is there a wider internet outage today?15 people · 28 mentions · first linked 2021-03-26
- Updated Facebook Outage Analysis3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-10-05
- /careers2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-01-03
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-23
- /outages2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-21
- Thousand Eyes AWS Outage Analysis: December 7, 20212 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-08
- AWS Outage Analysis: December 15, 20212 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-15
What Hacker News says?
https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages
Comment linking /outages
on “Level 3 Global Outage”Submitted Is there a wider internet outage today? as a story · 33 points
HN discussionAWS Outage Analysis - December 15, 2021: https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/aws-outage-analysis-decemb... https://azycqgvwjz.share.thousandeyes.com/view/tests/?roundI...
Comment linking /blog/aws-outage-analysis-december-15-2021
on “Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again”Submitted Thousands of Internet Outages Across America (11/25/2024) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionCame here to say exactly this... things that mess with BGP have the power to wipe you off the internet. Some more: - Google 2016, configuration management bug/BGP: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16007 - Valve 2015: https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/steam-outage-monitor-data-... - Cloudflare 2013: https://blog.cloudflare.com/todays-outage-post-mortem-82515/
Comment linking /blog/steam-outage-monitor-data-center-connectivity
on “Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022”Submitted The Surprising Impact of 1% Packet Loss as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYet another BGP caused outage. At some point we should collect all of them: - Cloudflare 2022 (this one) - Facebook 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28752131 - this one probably had the single biggest impact, since engineers got locked out of their systems, which made the fixing part look like a sci-fi movie - (Indirectly caused by BGP: Cloudflare 2020: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-july…
Comment linking /blog/route-leak-causes-amazon-and-aws-outage
on “Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022”Submitted Updated Facebook Outage Analysis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionInternet Outages Map - https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/
Comment linking /outages/
on “Meta outage”Submitted Internet Outages Map as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThousandEyes analysis of the outage: https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/zoom-outage-analysis-april...
Comment linking /blog/zoom-outage-analysis-april-16-2025
on “Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain”Submitted Azure AD Outage Analysis: December 15, 2021 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThousandEyes | Software Engineer | San Francisco, London | VISA, INTERNS, ONSITE Looking for strong software engineers (backend, frontend, or fullstack) to make a direct impact in our product. We are a Network Intelligence startup that values small, cross-functional teams where everyone has an equal say. Our web application tech stack is: d3.js, angularjs, SASS, Java, Spring, MongoDB We also have data collection and…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted Facebook Outage Analysis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThousandEyes | Software Engineer | San Francisco, London | VISA, INTERNS, ONSITE We are a Network Intelligence startup that values small, cross-functional teams where everyone has an equal say. Looking for talented Software Engineers (Backend, Frontend, or Fullstack) to make a direct impact in our product. Our web application tech stack is: AngularJS, Redux, d3.js, Java, Spring, MongoDB We also have data collection…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Submitted Looking Back at the Most Disruptive Internet Outages of 2020 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionrpki[0], but that doesn't mean fake bgp announcements, considered bgp hijacking[1], don't happen[2]. Once every t1 drops invalid prefixes, then rpki will effectively mean no T1 can turn off the internet for other ASNs, but everyone signing their prefixes is required to mean nobody can fake announce an IP. It looks like the DOD's routes are indeed signed[3]. 0: https://isbgpsafeyet.com/ 1: https://www.thousandeyes.co…
Comment linking /learning/glossary/bgp-route-hijacking
on “Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20”Submitted Internet Outage Map as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThousandEyes | Engineering Leads/Managers | San Francisco | ONSITE ThousandEyes is a network intelligence platform that delivers visibility into every network an organization relies on, enabling them to optimize and improve application delivery, end-user experience and ongoing infrastructure investments. Leading companies, such as ServiceNow, eBay and Twitter, as well as 41 members of the Fortune 500, use ThousandEy…
Comment linking /careers/engineering
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Ukraine Internet Analysis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThouandEyes | Data Analyst | SF | Full-time ONSITE | https://www.thousandeyes.com/careers The name ThousandEyes was born from two big ideas: the power to see things not ordinarily possible and the ability to collect insights from a multitude of vantage points. As organizations rely more on cloud services and the Internet, the network has become a "black box" outside of their control. ThousandEyes gives organizations…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Submitted Internet Outages Map as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere was an earth directed X class, but not a big one. If that could affect SS7 I would expect it to also take out a chunk of the internet but I am not seeing that. [1] There are many cellular networks having issues but some could be and likely are resellers of others. [2] Probably more likely SS7 related as marcus0x62 mentioned. Another potentially SS7 related possibility? [3] [1] - https://www.thousandeyes.com/ou…
Comment linking /outages/
on “Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users”Submitted Tata Communications (Tier 1 ISP) and others having network issues in India as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThousandEyes | Software Engineer | San Francisco, London | VISA, INTERNS, ONSITE Looking for strong software engineers (backend, frontend, or fullstack) to make a direct impact in our product. We are a Network Intelligence startup that values small, cross-functional teams where everyone has an equal say. Our web application tech stack is: d3.js, angularjs, SASS, Java, Spring, MongoDB We also have data collection and…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted Internet Outages Map as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThousandEyes | Senior/Principal Frontend Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE At ThousandEyes, we use cutting-edge technologies and innovative techniques to study and visualize networks on a global scale. ThousandEyes engineers are focused on continuous improvement -- of our product, our codebase, our knowledge, and our skills. We believe in innovation, simplicity, and elegance. We work in small, cross-functional team…
Comment linking /careers/engineering
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Submitted AWS Outage Analysis: December 15, 2021 as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> always found the internet, even for going just to Chinese sites, to be really slow A lot of that is because of the GFW. MITM/TLS decryption/DPI has a massive performance overhead (and why the first question any agent based security product is ask is whether it is "in the path of traffic"). It's basically a giant version of Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) The performance hit is a major reason why a lot of edge computi…
Comment linking /blog/benchmarking-network-performance-china
on “The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes”Submitted AWS Outage Analysis: December 7, 2021 By Chris Villemez as a story · 2 points
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