Network Uptime Monitor - IBM NS1 Connect

Keep your applications online all the time

IBM NS1 Connect offers multiple automated failover options with a single-tenant dedicated DNS system, automatically steers DNS traffic around disruptions and maintenance windows, provides resilient DNS network protections and massive scale against DDoS attacks, and delivers curated analysis of DNS performance.

Implement DNS network redundancy

Avoid single-threaded networks with an innovative infrastructure that integrates seamlessly with primary or secondary DNS options. Add dedicated DNS for a single-tenant, always-on failover.

Improve DNS network performance

Use DNS performance monitoring with real-time analytics to ensure network resilience. Use DNS data to spot bottlenecks and misconfigurations before they cause network downtime.

Ensure DNS network resilience

With a 100% uptime SLA for DNS resolution, IBM® NS1 Connect® keeps applications always available. Integrate DNS uptime monitoring to steer traffic past service disruptions in real time.

Protect against DDoS attacks

Built for scale and fortified against volumetric cyberthreats, IBM NS1 Connect ensures your applications stay online—even while being attacked.

Usage scenarios

DNS traffic steering
DNS traffic steering
Load balancing
Load balancing
DNS observability
DNS observability

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Minimize DNS network downtime

IBM NS1 Connect ensures that your applications are always online by automatically rerouting traffic around outages, latency events and maintenance windows.

Add network redundancy with dedicated DNS—a single-tenant backup option when your primary network is compromised.

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Global server load balancing for maximum network performance

IBM NS1 Connect offers sophisticated options for DNS traffic steering technology through real user monitoring (RUM) for Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB).

Ensure maximum network availability and performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional GSLB solutions.

Learn more about global server load balancing

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DNS real-time analytics

Integrated DNS analytics and real-time DNS traffic monitoring help identify potential issues before they escalate, enabling you to take proactive steps to maintain uptime.

Gain detailed visibility into DNS traffic patterns, NXDOMAIN spikes and performance anomalies to improve network reliability and performance.

Learn more about DNS observability

Minimize DNS network downtime

IBM NS1 Connect ensures that your applications are always online by automatically rerouting traffic around outages, latency events and maintenance windows.

Add network redundancy with dedicated DNS—a single-tenant backup option when your primary network is compromised.

Global server load balancing for maximum network performance

IBM NS1 Connect offers sophisticated options for DNS traffic steering technology through real user monitoring (RUM) for Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB).

Ensure maximum network availability and performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional GSLB solutions.

Learn more about global server load balancing

DNS real-time analytics

Integrated DNS analytics and real-time DNS traffic monitoring help identify potential issues before they escalate, enabling you to take proactive steps to maintain uptime.

Gain detailed visibility into DNS traffic patterns, NXDOMAIN spikes and performance anomalies to improve network reliability and performance.

Learn more about DNS observability

Client spotlight

Dropbox collaborates with IBM to cut latency by up to 200 milliseconds

Dropbox partnered with IBM to implement a more sophisticated approach to DNS traffic management. The company chose IBM® NS1 Connect® for its scalable, authoritative DNS service. The goal was to replace Dropbox’s geolocation-based system with the real-time monitoring and latency-based traffic steering capabilities of IBM NS1 Connect.

The solution enabled Dropbox to create a custom DNS map that prioritized actual network performance over physical distance.

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