I have not posted in a while. Well more like years. I think my last post was in 2012. Since then a lot has changed. But most of all I wanted to be able to pass on knowledge. I have learned so much in this industry and have a lot more to learn.

Recently I started working with a product called Extrahop. And all I can say is wow. It has opened my eyes to a lot of things. Truly an amazing product.

One of my main focuses has been visibility for the past couple of years. I would often hear of people talking about several things. And of course everyone has their opinion and of course their own product that will help with each of these.

• Moving from reactive to proactive environment.
• High availability.
• Security
• And performance tuning
• Root cause Analysis

All of these topics always bring visibility to mind at least for me. In order for you to truly work each one of the above you have to have visibility. But visibility to what becomes the question. And there are so many products. Available that supposedly will help with each.

Extrahop has truly helped me understand each of the above area’s more then I have ever thought possible. And believe me I have tried several different products. All have their pro’s and Con’s but after an extended amount of testing we have settled on useing Extrahop to help us solve some of the problems and challenges we have.

Over the next couple of weeks and months I will start posting about what can be done with Extrahop as well as the challenges that come up in using it.

But this is not just about Extrahop. It is more about my Journey in finding facts. How does x really work on the wire? What really happens on your network with all the applications. How can i trouble shoot better? How can we decrease mean time to resolution? How can we improve our enviornment?

I hope others can enjoy this journey as I walk through it. I love to pass on what I learn as I think it is valuable to pass on knowledge.

Thanks for reading.