Monitoring Cloudflare's edge network with Prometheus

Re:Monitoring Cloudflare's edge network with Prometheus by bogomipz on Sunday September 24, 2017 @06:13PM (#15326773)

That's not really a citation. Where are these figures published? What does that mean "10% the internet traffic?" By bandwidth? By request volume?

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Re:Monitoring Cloudflare's edge network with Prometheus by user5994461 on Sunday September 24, 2017 @06:40PM (#15326881)

You could start by reading the article you are commenting on. The traffic is by requests.

You may not be aware but yes, cloudflare is a significant internet company.

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Re:Monitoring Cloudflare's edge network with Prometheus by bogomipz on Sunday September 24, 2017 @07:26PM (#15327058)

Its not actually an article, its a slide deck with a bunch of marketing on it. And I did read it. These are unsubstantiated numbers. 10% of total daily HTTP requests? Where is the total daily number of HTTP requests on the internet published? Cisco's VNI approximates bandwidth but I have never seen any number for the total HTTP requests on the internet.

I am aware that Cloudflare is a CDN, most CDNs are substantial internet companies. However I've worked at a couple of CDNs and they all throw a lot of marketing numbers around.

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Re:Monitoring Cloudflare's edge network with Prometheus by Kalium on Monday September 25, 2017 @12:17PM (#15331647)

If memory serves, the 10% isn't based on some kind of global estimate of HTTP traffic. It's based on what percentage of active IP-space they see on a daily basis.

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Re:Monitoring Cloudflare's edge network with Prometheus by bogomipz on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:46AM (#15339677)

Now that's a marketing metric :)

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