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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 network telemetry?

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Network Capacity Planning 101: Requirements & Best Practices

Kentik

From a high-level perspective, network operators engage in network capacity planning to understand some key network metrics: Types of network traffic. Measure and analyze traffic metrics to establish performance and capacity baselines for future bandwidth consumption. Key metrics for planning network capacity.

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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. But cloud realities break that assumption. routers and switches).

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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? What is Kentik NPM? Is it the network? Is it the Internet?