Insights
Field notes for the modern NOC.
Technical guides on correlation, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, telemetry and incident metrics.
A practical evidence model for network RCA
What an RCA needs beyond a plausible sentence: timelines, evidence, confidence and recovery proof.
Read the guide →Network alert correlation: what should and should not become one incident
How to reduce duplicate symptoms without hiding independent failures.
Read → Root cause analysisA practical evidence model for network RCA
What an RCA needs beyond a plausible sentence.
Read → Safe deploymentLeast-privilege network monitoring for NOC teams
Credential scope, collectors, tenancy, thresholds, and what safe access should mean.
Read → Routing operationsBGP session down: what to check, in what order
A layered checklist from peer state and transport to hold timers, policy and real recovery.
Read → Physical layerInterface flapping and CRC errors: find the physical cause
Read counters as rates, check both ends, inspect optics and duplex, then verify the fix.
Read → Network operationsMulti-tenant network monitoring: what to require
Isolation across data, caches, live events, roles and thresholds, with tests you can run.
Read → TelemetrySNMP, gNMI, NETCONF or CLI: choosing how to collect telemetry
What each method does well, how it fails, and how to choose per device.
Read → Operations metricsNetwork incident metrics: measure what changes decisions
Split the incident lifecycle, measure noise and mistakes, and define terms first.
Read → EvaluationA network evaluation checklist for NOC teams
Scope, access, success criteria, gap logging and exit decisions for an honest evaluation.
Read →From reading to running