NS1 Research Labs focuses on finding innovative solutions to the challenges of modern internet application delivery. The team conducts research, develops technology, and advances industry knowledge through the sharing of information.
We continually research, develop and test new foundational technologies and functionality so that NS1 and the industry can solve the evolving challenges of supporting the connected economy.
We believe the industry and technology insights we gain from our research can benefit the entire industry. That’s why one of our core areas of focus is speaking at events, creating reports and sharing our research with the world.
Our industry is evolving rapidly to keep up with the demands of our connected world. Our labs team looks to the future of the industry and investigates future technologies so we can create new solutions for the challenges of the future.
Orb is a new kind of observability platform, fully open source and backed by NS1. Orb orchestrates network observability policies across a fleet of agents on the edge in real time, allowing you to dynamically filter and collect critical “small data” from your global network, providing you with lightweight, immediately actionable results you can make sense of.
Orb gives you a precision instrument to collect just the observability data you are interested in, extracting the needles from the haystack at the edge.
Try Orb today by visiting: orb.live. You can also learn more by visiting the GitHub site.
pktvisor is an open source observability agent for summarizing network streams in real time at the edge: for example Top 10 query names, GeoIP locations, or packet rate percentiles. It includes a command line interface for on-node visualization, as well as an HTTP API for command and control and collecting summaries to a central location. It is a key component of the Orb observability platform.
Flamethrower is a lightweight, configurable open source tool for functional testing, benchmarking, and stress testing DNS servers and networks. It supports IPv4, IPv6, UDP, TCP, DNS over TLS (DoT), DNS over HTTPS (DoH), and has experimental support for DNS over QUIC.
Experimental proxy to convert DNS-over-QUIC DNS queries into standard UDP DNS queries.
Visit our Docker repository to download our open source tools.
Our VP Architecture, Shannon Weyrick, shared at Velocity Conference in Berlin how we use Flamethrower, our open source tool, for chaos engineering.
Nathanael Jean-Francois, our Lead Engineer of Network Architecture, how we measure at the edge to optimize performance.
Christian Grabowski, Backend Engineer at NS1, walks through why we decided to migrate our database, and the steps taken to ensure the migration was seamless.
Our VP Research Shannon Weyrick presented at INS1GHTS2021: Build the Better Future on how to cut through the data overload in network observability by extracting the signal - right at the source.
Learn more about some of the exciting developments and investments we've made at NS1 Labs.
Learn more about Orb and pktvisor, two open source technologies developed by NS1 Labs that align with our vision for the future of application and audience connectivity.
A key focus for the NS1 Labs team is our investment in NetBox, the popular open source platform for modern network automation and infrastructure resource management.
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