Kentik
About Kentik
Kentik's platform covers networks from data center to cloud. It supports sending or receiving data from various sources and formats. The platform is described as the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams.
Used for
- Analyzing traffic spikes to determine if they are DDoS attacks or bursts
- Finding suboptimal network paths related to cloud connectivity costs
- Forecasting backbone link utilization for capacity planning
- Determining whether traffic to a web tier is legitimate or malicious
- Troubleshooting networks with self-service tools for support, NOC, and app teams
Who it is for
- Network teams
- Cloud and infrastructure teams
- Traffic engineers
- Network security teams
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How to evaluate Network Performance Monitoring
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25%
Visibility Across Unowned Paths
Hop-by-hop internet and WAN path analysis across ISP and cloud backbones, SaaS and API reachability, BGP route monitoring, and a global vantage-point network for synthetic tests from where users actually sit
25%
Owned-Estate Depth (Device, Flow, Config)
Multi-vendor SNMP and streaming-telemetry coverage, auto-discovery and live topology mapping, NetFlow/sFlow/IPFIX and eBPF flow analytics, and configuration backup, change tracking, and compliance
20%
Experience & Correlation (DEM + AIOps)
Digital-experience scoring tied to network health, anomaly detection on streaming telemetry, alert deduplication and noise reduction, automated root-cause grouping by topology, and one timeline from path to service
15%
Cloud & Hybrid Coverage
AWS/Azure/GCP VPC and VNet flow logs, cloud-provider API ingestion, SD-WAN and SASE fabric visibility, container and service-mesh network paths, and unified hybrid view rather than a separate cloud silo
10%
Observability & Workflow Integration
Correlation with APM/infrastructure/logs, ITSM and incident routing (ServiceNow, PagerDuty), SIEM/SOAR hooks, OpenTelemetry support, and open API/IaC coverage for automation
5%
Operating Model & Cost Fit
SaaS vs. self-hosted, agent/collector footprint to deploy and patch, multi-tenancy for MSP or shared-services use, and whether the licensing unit (device, sensor, host, flow, agent) scales with your estate predictably
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Quick Facts
www.kentik.com Pricing pageCategoryObservability & Monitoring
SubcategoryNetwork Performance Monitoring
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