Kentik

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In this post, we’ll highlight some of what we saw using Kentik’s unique capabilities, including some surprising aftereffects of the outage that continue to this day. Why, you might ask, would there be a surge in traffic during an outage? However, not all intra-Azure connections suffered disruptions like this.

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Kentik

MAY 25, 2021

Today is an exciting day here at Kentik. We’re officially expanding our partnership with New Relic to unify application and network observability. Buddy also shared a good summary of why we’re doing this via his latest blog post : When software fails, it happens in unexpected ways and at the worst time.

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Kentik

JUNE 6, 2023

If you want to deliver the best possible service, you have to monitor them. Monitoring your API lets you identify bottlenecks, spot performance drops, and maintain availability, all essential to ensuring a quality experience for your end users. Let’s take a look at how to use Kentik as a comprehensive API monitoring solution.

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Kentik

MARCH 26, 2020

We are continuing to monitor traffic trends in correlation with the spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19. After recently observing the 200% network traffic spikes in North American and Asia ( see data in our 3/6/20 update below ), we wanted to look specifically at the U.S., eyeball, cloud, and transit networks).

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Latency is not a new problem in networking. Application developers have also figured out clever ways of working around network latency problems, but there are limits to what can be done. Over the last few decades network managers have focused on adding bandwidth and reducing the network outages. What causes latency?

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Kentik

MAY 30, 2023

Capacity planning for IP networks is an essential and continuous process that ensures internet service providers (ISPs) and content providers can meet the growing demands of their users. Why automate capacity planning? With the rapid advancement of technology, the idea of automating this process is becoming increasingly appealing.

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Ever find yourself sitting in your home office wondering why your connection to Google Docs or Salesforce is uncharacteristically slow? Digital experience monitoring. In order to build a baseline of end-user experience to SaaS applications, we need a digital experience monitoring mechanism for data collection. We know this.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 13, 2021

That’s why keeping a proverbial finger on the pulse of application performance is generally worth the effort. To properly monitor them, it’s paramount to find out which servers your end users are connecting to. Run Task Manager (or Activity Monitor for MacOS), and look for applications that are consuming excessive resources.

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Kentik

JUNE 19, 2017

Network flow data (e.g. NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX) is often used to gain visibility into the characteristics of IP traffic flowing through network elements. This data — flow records or datagrams, depending on the protocol — is generated by network devices such as routers and switches. Sampling: What and Why.

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Kentik

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Podcast with Kentik CEO Avi Freedman and analyst Jim Metzler. On September 20, Kentik announced Kentik NPM, the first network performance monitoring solution designed for the speed, scale, and architecture of today’s digital business. What is Kentik NPM? Why we need another NPM solution, and why SaaS.

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Kentik

JUNE 27, 2016

Protecting Your Network with Comprehensive, Timely Understanding. Network security depends on comprehensive, timely understanding of what’s happening on your network. Kentik Detect enables network data to be applied to enhance network security. Detecting unauthorized communications.

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

On May 27 of this year, Gartner Research Director Sanjit Ganguli released a research note titled “Network Performance Monitoring Tools Leave Gaps in Cloud Monitoring.” In the note, Ganguli makes a number of key points in explaining the gap in cloud monitoring. Voila, you’ve covered (most of) your network.

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Kentik

JUNE 12, 2017

I recently attended the Light Reading Big Communications Event (BCE) in Austin, which is focused on networking in the telecommunications industry. I had a series of discussions there that provided me with helpful insight into the state of network analytics and visibility for telecoms. What can be learned from these early experiments?

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Kentik

OCTOBER 10, 2016

This post is based on a webinar presented by Jim Frey, VP Strategic Alliances at Kentik, on Network Performance Management for cloud and digital operations. Defining Network Performance Monitoring. Is the network is doing what is expected for delivering applications and services? Key NPM Data Sources.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

What is cloud networking? Cloud networking is the IT infrastructure necessary to host or interact with applications and services in public or private clouds, typically via the internet. Why is cloud networking important? The resulting network can be considered multi-cloud.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

They’re normally more robust and reliable than single systems, but they have a more complex network architecture. However, you likely know how inconsistent even the best networks can be. You probably already use tools to monitor your network. Common monitoring metrics are latency, packet loss, and jitter.

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Kentik

JULY 15, 2021

To understand the power of our workflow, I’ll first discuss the basics of OTT (over-the-top) service monitoring and then explain why our enhanced capability is so popular with our broadband provider customers. Interfaces on the edge of the network that need enough capacity to deliver that traffic. Better, Faster, Stronger.

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Kentik

APRIL 3, 2023

In this post, we’ll look at what eBPF is, how it works, and why it’s become such a common technology in observability. Those calls could be for kernel services, network services, accessing the file system, and so on. That’s the short definition. The longer definition will take some time to unpack. What is eBPF?

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Kentik

MAY 31, 2023

In the first part of this series , I introduced network reliability as a concept foundational to success for IT and business operations. I also pointed out that because of necessary factors like redundancy, the pursuit of reliability will inevitably mean making compromises that affect a network’s cost or performance.

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Kentik

AUGUST 20, 2020

As Kentik’s product manager for hybrid cloud, I am always talking to infrastructure and network teams around the world to understand a day-in-their-life. This provides me with an invaluable understanding of the challenges, goals, and priorities that they face today, and also a vision into their future network monitoring needs.

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Kentik

JANUARY 10, 2022

Measuring a website’s performance is accurately represented when monitoring several metrics. Is your PC using a DNS on the same local area network as your computer? If you’re a person who works from home, you almost certainly have to deal with occasional internet connection issues. Where is the DNS?

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Kentik

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Kentik Detect Recognized by IDC for Cloud-Based Network Monitoring. At Kentik, we’re honored to have been recognized recently as an IDC Innovator for Cloud-Based Network Monitoring. Why Kentik? That makes Kentik Detect notably distinct from traditional appliance-based approaches.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 21, 2017

From telcos like BT and CenturyLink, to financial services such as MasterCard, to tech companies like Amazon, SAP, and more, we asked 30 of our peers one question: What are your 2018 networking predictions? But respondents (hailing from network, data center, and security operations teams) surfaced five main predictions for the year ahead.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 11, 2018

At the recent AWS re:Invent conference, we heard many attendees talking about cloud-native architecture and container-first approaches to application development. The discussions were not only focused on leveraging cloud-native architecture to foster innovation but also to speed up development for the attendees’ growing businesses.

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Kentik

MAY 17, 2021

Why 1,000 different cloud monitoring solutions don’t help network engineers. Today, we are excited to announce the launch of Kentik Cloud , our latest innovation enabling network and cloud engineers to easily visualize, troubleshoot, secure, and optimize cloud networks. Cloud Questions.

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