Kentik is a Network Intelligence Platform, mainly for modern infrastructure teams, used to improve network observability, performance, and security. According to official materials, it provides monitoring and analysis capabilities for traffic, routing, synthetic testing, and cloud networks, helping teams understand network operating conditions.
Main capabilities and uses:
- Network monitoring and analysis: covers traffic, routing, synthetic testing, and cloud networks, and supports observability from data centers and the cloud to the internet.
- AI Advisor: It is officially stated that replacing traditional network tools with AI Advisor can reduce investigation time by 96%, and can determine whether to escalate to a vendor or implement a local configuration change. Example queries include analyzing whether a traffic burst on interface Et1/1 is DDoS or burst traffic, and whether the current traffic accessing the web layer is legitimate users or a botnet.
- DDoS detection: It is officially stated to have the most accurate DDoS detection capability on the market, and can immediately determine whether to trigger automatic mitigation or allow harmless traffic to pass through.
- Cloud cost optimization: It can help reduce egress taxes and optimize cloud budgets, with official examples stating savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year; discover suboptimal paths, such as scenarios where you pay for Transit Gateway but can use VPC Peering.
- Capacity planning and cost justification: It can predict, based on current growth, which backbone links will exceed 80% utilization in the next 3 months, providing CapEx justification for hardware upgrades or rebalancing traffic on existing links.
- Performance and reliability: supports rapid root cause identification and resolves outages across environments; improves network performance, cost, and security while reducing workload; automated peering and traffic cost analysis can reduce hops and improve efficiency.
How to use: Official materials do not provide specific installation commands or code. The platform emphasizes that it can work with teams' existing tools (the specific integration list is not yet provided). It provides self-service troubleshooting for support, NOC, and application teams.
Applicable scenarios:
- Multi-cloud observability, network monitoring systems (NMS), SD-WAN monitoring, network security and compliance, synthetic monitoring, peering and interconnection.
- Service providers (Kentik for Service Providers), network telemetry, universal data explorer, observability data pipeline, Kentik data engine.
- Reduce cloud spending, migrate to or from any cloud, improve cloud performance, optimize enterprise WAN, network performance monitoring, deliver excellent digital experiences, detect and mitigate DDoS, strengthen network policy management,investigate security incidents, visualize all cloud and network traffic, troubleshoot any network, understand internet performance, optimize data center networks, consolidate legacy tools, optimize peering and transit, plan network capacity, reduce network spending, and grow subscriber revenue.
Limitations and information not provided: Official materials do not provide specific pricing (only mention the Plans and Pricing page), do not provide installation commands, and do not provide a specific list of integration tools.
