The Ntersect Blog
Ideas and engineering notes on network observability, AIOps, and running reliable infrastructure.
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Read article →Anatomy of a Branch-Office Incident: A Cooling Failure in Five Signals
A walkthrough of the most instructive failure pattern we know: how one dying HVAC unit in a wiring closet becomes a network incident — and how each signal foretold the next.
Read article →Seeing the Path: Why Route Visualization Belongs in Your Observability Stack
Traffic doesn't teleport between sites — it takes a path, and paths change. Making routes visible turns a class of unexplainable slowdowns into explainable ones.
Read article →From Alert Storm to Root Cause: How Evaluations Work in Ntrospect
An incident is never one signal. Evaluations gather the related anomalies, logs, and alerts into a single case file — with a proposed root cause you can verify.
Read article →Meet the Ntuition Engine: Anomaly Detection That Learns Your Network
Static thresholds treat every device the same. Ntuition learns what normal looks like for each interface, sensor, and site — and only speaks up when reality disagrees.
Read article →Why We Built Ntrospect on Columnar Storage
Network telemetry is a firehose: billions of small, timestamped, highly repetitive records. That workload has a natural home, and it isn't a relational database.
Read article →In Defense of SNMP in 2025
Streaming telemetry gets the conference talks, but SNMP still runs the estate. Why the old workhorse remains essential — and how to poll it well.
Read article →Your Network Devices Are Already Telling You What's Wrong
Fan failures, flapping links, config changes, auth failures — it's all in syslog. The case for actually collecting the logs your gear already sends.
Read article →Alert Fatigue Is a Design Problem, Not a Discipline Problem
When everything pages, nothing does. How threshold sprawl happens, and the design principles that keep an alerting system trustworthy.
Read article →NetFlow vs. sFlow vs. IPFIX: Picking the Right Flow Protocol
All three tell you who is talking to whom on your network — but they make very different trade-offs. A practical guide to choosing.
Read article →Network Observability Is More Than Up/Down Monitoring
Ping checks tell you something broke. Observability tells you what, where, and why — before your users file the ticket.
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