Cloud Observability & Digital Experience Monitoring by Kentik

The Kentik Features at a Glance

CORE
Comprehensive network traffic analysis. Capacity planning. Telemetry data visualization. On-demand insights. Workflow configuration.

EDGE
Complete network visibility. Management of transits and interconnections. Peer discovery. Traffic organization and cost optimization.

SYNTHETICS
Management of network and application performance based on synthetic traffic testing and real-time analysis.

CLOUD
Visibility across all cloud and hybrid environments. Migration planning. Security assessments. Performance optimization and cloud cost reduction.

PROTECT
Early detection and mitigation of DDoS attacks. Botnet identification. Threat analysis. Prevention of route leaks and BGP hijacking.

KENTIK AI
AI-powered analytics for automated root cause analysis and faster troubleshooting.

With Kentik AI, the platform expands its network observability capabilities with intelligent, AI-powered analytics. The solution helps network and security teams identify the root causes of performance issues and anomalies more quickly by automatically analyzing large volumes of telemetry data and delivering context-aware insights.

With features such as automated root cause analysis (“What changed?”) and natural language querying of network data, Kentik AI simplifies complex analyses and significantly accelerates troubleshooting in modern, distributed infrastructures.

Answer any question about your network

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• Accelerate every phase of network management from planning and design to troubleshooting and optimization with AI Advisor.
• Automatically analyze traffic shifts to know what changed with Cause Analysis.
• Streamline operations with context-enriched, natural language summaries of key network insights.

Network Telemetry:

• Collect telemetry input from all critical networks and forwarding elements.
• Visualize a unified view across all your networks, even the ones you don’t own.
• Seamlessly scale to collect all telemetry during peak times.

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Observability Data Pipeline:

• Export enriched data anywhere, other analytics tools or data lakes.
• Reduce costs and improve speeds with aggregate ingest pipelines.
• Normalize telemetry to make it consumable in multiple formats.

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Kentik Kube is an industry-leading solution that provides insights into the network behavior of Kubernetes workloads and visualizes traffic paths between containers across data centers, public clouds, and the internet.

Revolutionize Your Kubernetes Network Observability!

Today’s enterprises operate in a complex environment, using multiple Kubernetes variants such as AWS EKS, Google Cloud GKE, Microsoft Azure AKS, and numerous other private and public cloud orchestration platforms. While this diversity gives teams greater autonomy, it also introduces significant complexity.

Kentik Kube ensures optimal Kubernetes performance by enabling teams to quickly identify services and pods affected by network anomalies or latency issues, allowing for faster and more efficient issue resolution. With configurable alert policies, teams can proactively address high latency across nodes, pods, workloads, or services. All traffic data in Kentik, including K8s traffic analysis from Kentik Kube, is automatically enriched with key business and security metadata, providing valuable context to your telemetry.

Kentik Kube not only examines individual applications but also reveals the bigger picture of how applications and shared services interact and how communication across infrastructure boundaries impacts cost and performance.

Too often, traffic within Kubernetes remains a “black box.” Kentik Kube’s comprehensive network visibility brings clarity where it’s needed most. Learn more in the Solution Brief.

Kentik’s Cloud Cost Management focuses on visualizing and optimizing network-related expenses in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Unlike traditional tools, which only analyze billing data, Kentik links actual traffic to costs.

Key features and benefits:

• Transparency in Traffic Costs: Kentik integrates SNMP, flow, and contract data to provide real-time cost estimates for network traffic. This allows you to immediately identify expensive paths and interconnects.
• Identification of misconfigurations: The tool uncovers expensive egress routes and misconfigured NAT gateways that often drive up costs without being noticed.
• Automated cost allocation: Costs can be automatically allocated to business units, applications, or cloud accounts. This simplifies budget planning and ensures financial accountability.
• Balancing costs vs. performance: Real-time analytics enable you to optimize ROI by directly comparing the performance of critical workloads against their connectivity costs.
• Multi-cloud overview: The platform provides a unified view of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle, simplifying the management of complex infrastructures.
• Migration planning: By understanding current traffic baselines, organizations can make more informed decisions about capacity and location selection for cloud migrations.

In summary, Kentik helps companies identify the often opaque hidden costs of cloud networks and reduce them sustainably through targeted optimization of traffic paths.

Holistic Network Visibility
Analyze network data from the data center, edge, cloud, and internet on a single centralized platform, regardless of where your traffic is located.

Comprehensive Telemetry Collection
Collect and correlate data from the network, cloud, hosts, containers, and routing and performance tests to gain a complete view of your infrastructure.

Context-Based Analysis
Enrich telemetry data with context regarding infrastructure, applications, users, routing, and business processes to enable informed and rapid decision-making.

AI-Powered Insights
Leverage intelligent analytics to detect anomalies, performance issues, and security-related events early on and resolve them effectively.

Rapid root cause analysis
Perform powerful real-time queries, filters, and drill-downs to identify issues in seconds rather than hours.

Proactive action
Optimize network performance, detect risks early, and respond faster to changes in complex IT environments.

Our UseCases are only available in German. If you are interested in further information, we are happy to assist you personally. Please do not hesitate to contact us directly.

Traffic Analysis and Anti DDoS for Service Providers

Our use case focuses on a regional telecommunications service provider in Northern Germany that offers a complete multimedia package with telephony, high-speed internet, and cable television. The company’s goal was to procure a SaaS solution for the technical analysis of IP traffic through the use of recorded metadata by NetFlow v9 and IPFIX. In addition, the software should have the ability to detect and automatically combat current DDoS attacks by using BGP Blackholing and BGP FlowSpec. Read more in our Use Case Traffic analysis and Anti DDoS for service providers

Network Observability for Cloud and Internet-Centric Enterprise Backbones

While networks were mostly focused on connecting their own data centers and locations via private infrastructure, today’s enterprise networks must focus more on cloud/hyperscaler and internet connections. This transformation requires new technologies and architectures, as well as operating concepts and services. On the other hand, existing classic network infrastructures must also continue to be supported. So how Can a Modern Enterprise Backbone be Operated Effectively and Stably? Read more in our Use Case Network Observability for Cloud and Internet-Centric Enterprise Backbones