The surge in third-party integrations has introduced a host of new challenges for operators:
Legacy tools weren't built to handle the growing complexity of today’s interconnected tech landscape.
To keep your modern, highly connected applications running smoothly, it's crucial to navigate the complexities of outbound application (egress) traffic, as this is where many of the performance, security, and reliability issues begin to surface.
Egress traffic, the outbound data flow from your applications to third-party APIs, managed services, and other dependencies, has become a critical component of modern application architecture. However, visibility into this egress traffic is often limited, leading to blind spots in managing performance and security. Traditionally, egress traffic is left largely unmonitored, with open policies that starkly contrast the tight controls placed on inbound traffic. This lack of visibility can obscure critical insights into how your application interacts with external services, making it difficult to troubleshoot issues or enforce security policies effectively.
Current approaches to managing egress traffic often rely on network-level controls like firewall rules and access lists, which are cumbersome and disconnected from the way developers understand their applications. These methods focus on IP addresses and CIDR notations, offering little insight into the actual behavior of outbound traffic. This disconnect leaves developers and operators blind to how protocols, domains, and libraries are interacting with external services, resulting in inefficient troubleshooting and security gaps that are difficult to close.
The lack of accessible tools for managing external dependencies and traffic flows has created a significant challenge ops teams. Current solutions are complex, requiring expertise across various aspects of infrastructure and often failing to provide the real-time visibility needed by developers and operations teams. Bridging this gap with a solution that leverages enhanced visibility into egress traffic is crucial—not just for security, but also for reliability and efficient troubleshooting.
Qpoint aims to bring a higher level of sophistication to how operators manage the interactions between their production applications and their external service dependencies. By enabling operators to tap into their egress traffic with cutting edge eBPF technology, questions like the following can be answered:
Qpoint leverages an eBPF probe (Qtap) to tap into your egress traffic directly on the host without affecting performance. Think of Qtap as a smart, invisible observer that watches all outgoing traffic, answering crucial questions about who's sending data, what's being sent, and where it's going. It's perfect for organizations looking to gain insights without changing their existing infrastructure.
Key benefits:
Qtap also supports the Qpoint middleware engine which allows you to seamlessly inject custom functions and execute complex traffic manipulations out-of-band from your primary request flow.
As the digital landscape evolves, so must our approach to observability and data security. Qpoint offers a comprehensive solution to the often-overlooked challenge of managing the interactions between your core applications and their critical external service dependencies. By providing unprecedented visibility into outbound data flows, enabling custom controls, and offering flexible deployment options, Qpoint empowers an operations team to:
Don't let your external dependencies and vendor relationships remain an overlooked area of risk and lost productivity for your organization. Take the first step towards comprehensive visibility and control over your applications' interactions with external services. Visit our documentation to learn more or contact us today for a personalized demo and discover how we can tailor our solution to your specific needs.