Radar's Cloud Observatory now shows connection metrics three new ways!

Hey there, it's me, Shiichan! Today I've got a small but handy update about peeking into how well clouds connect.

Cloudflare Changelog developers.cloudflare.com

What was announced?

From Cloudflare's Changelog: the connection metrics in Radar's Cloud Observatory just got easier to explore. Four metrics — TCP round-trip time (RTT), TCP handshake duration, TLS handshake duration, and response header receive duration — can now be viewed from three new perspectives.

The story so far

You could already see connection metrics before, but when you wanted to dig in — like "which provider is fastest?" or "I only care about this one region" — it felt a little thin. This update lets you flip between hierarchy levels and check them however you like.

What changes

Here are the three new views:

• Provider-level: compare connection metrics sorted by cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle Cloud).
• Region-level: see the top five regions per provider, sortable from lowest to highest values.
• Percentile-level: view the distribution as 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile.

Dive Deep

The best part is you can grab this from the API too, not just the dashboard. With the Origins API timeseries_groups endpoint, specify the ORIGIN, REGION, or PERCENTILE dimension to get the provider-level, region-level, or percentile data respectively.

If you want to see the real screens, take a peek at a provider page or a region page.

Wrap-up

• Cloud Observatory in Radar now shows connection metrics from three views: by provider, by region, and by percentile.
• The metrics covered are TCP RTT, TCP / TLS handshake duration, and response header receive duration.
• Beyond the dashboard, you can pull the data via the Origins API timeseries_groups endpoint (ORIGIN / REGION / PERCENTILE).

If you're an infra fan who loves confirming which cloud and region is fastest with real data, this update is right up your alley!