Designing Network Tests That Reflect Reality: From Basic Ping Checks to Full Path and Load Verification
Most teams have run a “network test” that passed—yet users still complained about slowness, failed logins, or timeouts in production. That gap happens because basic checks (like a few pings) rarely represent real application behavior. Modern traffic depends on DNS, TCP, TLS, routing policy, CDN edges, congestion, packet loss, and how your system behaves under…