Monitoring user experience and third-party APIs for your workloads
summary
ThousandEyes deploys an t2.medium EC2 agent via CloudFormation into VPCs, runs active HTTP tests every five minutes from multiple AWS regions, and maps end-to-end paths to third-party APIs. A GoodData API on Rackspace shows failed connects from AP‑SOUTH‑1 with ~60% packet loss at the agent and a 67% loss at Rackspace, proving the fault lies with the provider not AWS. The platform creates permanent share link captures for troubleshooting, exposes an API and GitHub automation, and integrates with PagerDuty/ServiceNow for alerts.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:29About Thousand Eyes
- 1:14Thousand Eyes customer list
- 2:06AWS is your new data center
- 3:59What happens if AWS core breaks
- 4:29Blast radius of AWS outage
- 6:58App and API integration
- 8:33Map Enterprise Viewpoint
- 8:52Test
- 9:28Application Experience
- 10:21AWS Cloud Formation
- 11:17Test setup
- 12:30Data analysis
- 15:01Network metrics
- 15:49Path visualization
- 18:59Outro
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