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The Network Also Needs to be Observable, Part 2: Network Telemetry Sources

Kentik

We see these DevOps teams unifying logs, metrics, and traces into systems that can answer critical questions to support great operations and improved revenue flow. Internet and broadband infrastructure : The internet itself that connects the clouds, applications, and users. API gateways for digital services.

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Using Device Telemetry to Answer Questions About Your Network Health

Kentik

Traditional network monitoring relies on telemetry sources such as Simple Network Messaging Protocol (SNMP), sFlow, NetFlow, CPU, memory, and other device-specific metrics. With so many network boundaries being navigated (application, service, cloud providers, subnets, SD-WANs , etc.), What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?

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Optimizing Network Stability and Reliability Through Data-Driven Strategies

Kentik

Only then can we pinpoint why one of our data center ToR switches is overwhelmed with unexpected traffic, why our line of business application is experiencing latency over the SD-WAN, why an OSPF adjacency is flapping, or why our SaaS app performance is terrible despite having a ton of available bandwidth.

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Closing the Network Performance Monitoring Gap and Achieving Full Network Visibility

Kentik

Until just a few years ago, enterprise networks were predominantly comprised solely of one or more private data centers connected to a series of campuses and branch offices by a private WAN that was based on MPLS VPN technology from a major telecom carrier. The effect on network traffic is profound. But cloud realities break that assumption.

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Kentik’s Journey to Deliver the First Cloud Network Observability Product

Kentik

Internal communications routed over internet gateways and driving up costs. The SD-WAN systems, the DDoS scrubbers, and the intrusion detection appliances. Most organizations don’t have policies in place that prevent accounts from setting up new internet gateways, configuring new security groups, or routing policies.

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Podcast with Kentik CEO Avi Freedman & Jim Metzler

Kentik

Addressing the visibility gaps left by legacy appliances in centralized data centers, Kentik NPM uses lightweight software agents to gather performance metrics from real traffic wherever application servers are distributed across the Internet. Is it the WAN? Is it the Internet? Is it the network? Is it the data center?