The Internet Report
Episodes
What Happened with Slack’s Outage; Plus, Talking Cloud Resiliency with Forrest Brazeal of Cloud Guru (Week of 12/28/20-01/04/21) | Outage Deep Dive
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. Despite a quiet last couple of weeks o...
About Monday’s Google Outage; Plus, Talking Holiday Internet Traffic Trends with Fastly (Week of Dec. 7-14) | Outage Deep Dive
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode of #TheInternetReport... 00:00 Welcome 00:16 Headlines: About Monday’s Google Outage; Plus, Talking Holiday Internet Traffic ...
Major AWS Outage Highlights Dependencies within Cloud Providers (Week of Nov. 23-30) | Outage Deep Dive
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re an AWS customer or rely on services that use AWS, you might have noticed the major, hours-long outage last week. On November 25th, at appr...
2020 Election—The Internet Held Strong With a Few App Performance Glitches (Week of Nov. 2-8)
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. This week, we’re pleasantly surprise...
2020 Election Special: Going Under the Hood on State Election Websites (Week of Oct. 19-25)
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got an election coming up here in the US, and over the last several weeks, we have been analyzing a dozen or so state election websites to tak...
No, Twitter Wasn’t Hacked and Zayo Goes Bump in the Night (Week of Oct. 12-18) | Outage Deep Dive
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
. In this week’s episode, we discuss two notable outages that happened last week. The first, at Twitter, took place on October 15 around 5:30 pm PST...
The Case of an Overloaded Database and What Happens When a Bug Bites (Week of Oct. 4-11) | Outage Deep Dive
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. In this week’s episode, we dive into...
Microsoft's Monday Outage Is a Lesson in App Complexity; Plus, Digging into Telstra’s BGP Hijack (Week of Sept. 28-Oct. 4) | Outage Deep Dive
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On today’s episode, we dive into a r...
The TikTok Shutdown Showdown Continues, and WeChat Gets Muzzled (Week of Sept. 14-20) | Outage Deep Dive
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s episode, Angelique and I cover off on a couple outages that occurred over the past week. First, we discuss an application outage at Insta...
You’ve Got Questions, We’ve Got Answers: Upstream Providers and the Reality of SLAs (Week of Sept. 7-13) | Outage Deep Dive
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It was another quiet week on the Internet, so we wanted to spend some time answering your questions around some recent outages. Catch this episode as ...
Even the Internet Enjoys a Long Weekend; Plus, Digging Into a Recent CDN Outage (Week of Aug. 31-Sept. 6) | Outage Deep Dive
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Internet held up reasonably well over the past week, all things considered. There were no major outages to report, which is a welcome repose for t...
Under the Hood on the CenturyLink / Level 3 Outage (Week of Aug. 24-30) | Outage Deep Dive
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. It was a rough week on the Internet la...
An IXP and a Streaming Music Provider Walk Into an Outage Bar (Week of Aug. 17-23) | Outage Deep Dive
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
his is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this week’s episode, Archana and I...
Fortnite’s Epic Battle Against the “Apple Tax”; And, The Evolution of Cloud Connectivity (Week of Aug. 10-16)
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode, Archana and I cover recent headlines concerning social media platform, TikTok, and the gaming provider, Epic Games. TikTok a...
Time’s Running Out on TikTok; Plus, This Ain't Your Dad’s SatComms—But Does It Live Up to the Hype? (Week of Aug. 3-9)
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this week’s episode, Mike sat dow...
Cogent's Midsummer's Night Outage and Telstra's Weekend DNS Mishap Prove Not All Outages Are Equal (Week of July 27-Aug. 2) | Outage Deep Dive
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this week’s episode, Archana and ...
Ransomware Attack Leaves Garmin Users Stuck Without a Paddle (Week of July 20-26) | Outage Deep Dive
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode, I am joined by Deepak Ravi from our Dublin technical sales engineering team to discuss a recent outage at Garmin. Garmin con...
Do Outages Come in 3’s? Diving Into Last Week’s Outages at GitHub, WhatsApp, and Cloudflare (Week of July 13-19) | Outage Deep Dive
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode, we cover a couple of significant application-layer outages at Github and WhatsApp that occurred over the past week. Then, Ar...
India Swipes Left on TikTok, GCP Outage Hits Multiple AZs, & Cloud Networking 101 for Enterprises (Week of June 29-July 5) | Outage Deep Dive
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode, we cover a recent move by the government of India to ban many Chinese-owned applications, including TikTok, which reportedly...
Broadband Goes Bust, Again; Plus, Satellite Meets SD-WAN (Week of June 22-28) | Outage Deep Dive
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode is brought to you by the letter “O” for outages — in particular, there were a number of broadband providers, globally, tha...
Major T-Mobile Outage Caused By Fiber Cut, and Talking Cloud Architecture at Scale with Uber (Week of June 15-21) | Outage Deep Dive
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this week’s episode, we cover a w...
Excuse Me, Your BGP Is Leaking (Week of June 8-15) | Outage Deep Dive
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode, we discuss a recent BGP-related outage at a major public cloud provider, as well as a recent announcement that Cogent Networ...
It’s ALWAYS DNS! (Week of May 25-31) | Outage Deep Dive
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of the Internet Report, I’m joined by my colleague, Michael Batchelder (aka Binky), to discuss a DNS-related service disrup...
Outages Become a Night Owl’s Nuisance, and How COVID-19 Impacted the Submarine Cable Industry (Week of May 18-24) | Outage Deep Dive
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the Internet Report! On this week’s episode, we cover our usual check-up of ISPs, cloud and collaboration app outages, and discuss s...
YouTube, Google, Slack, and How Do You Say ‘Performance Issues’ in French? (Week of May 11-17) | Outage Deep Dive
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Never a dull minute on the Internet! In today’s episode, Archana and I dove into a YouTube service disruption and an (unrelated!) Google network iss...
Facebook SDK Snafu Sidelines Spotify & Others, Plus, AWS Global Accelerator… Accelerates (Week of May 4-10) | Outage Deep Dive
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of The Internet Report, Archana and I cover some newsworthy updates that we’ve seen over the past week. We discuss a notabl...
Cloudflare Calls on ISPs to Take BGP Security Seriously; Plus Virgin Media Has Outage Deja Vu (Week of April 27-May 3) | Outage Deep Dive
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of The Internet Report, Archana and I are thrilled to be joined by Martin Levy, who is a distinguished engineer at Cloudflare...
CenturyLink/Level 3 Suffers Fiber Cut, FCC Cracks Down on China Telecom, and Public vs. Private Internet Exchanges—Which Is Best? (Week of April 20-26) | Outage Deep Dive
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, Archana and I are joined by a special guest, Christian Koch, who is the head of product, cloud and ecosystem at PacketFabric...
ISPs Back in the Spotlight, US Banks Stimulus Check Stumble, Is Netflix Breaking the Internet? (Week of April 13-19, 2020) | Outage Deep Dive
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Outages Hit Record Lows, Unemployment Sites Hit Network Snags, Plus, Meet The Internet Society (Week of April 6-12, 2020) | Outage Deep Dive
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, Archana and I welcomed David Belson (@dbelson) of the Internet Society. We got to discuss some rather good news -- overall o...
Collaboration App Networks Have Particularly Bad Week, Rostelecom BGP Bungle (Again) (Week of March 30-April 5, 2020) | Outage Deep Dive
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It was yet another eventful week on the Internet, folks. In this week’s episode of The Internet Report, Archana and I discuss the latest figures aro...
ISP Outages On The Rise, Router Failure Takes Down Cloud Provider Services During COVID-19 (Week of March 23-29, 2020) | Outage Deep Dive
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past month, ThousandEyes has been flooded with questions about how the Internet is holding up given the extra strain it’s been under with t...