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The (Net)Flow That Kentik Makes Go: Know Your Traffic Flow Data Protocols

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Some versions, but not all, support other data fields such as MAC address, VLAN ID, and IPv6. For example, NetFlow v9, IPFIX, and sFlow support IPv6 but NetFlow v5 and its equivalents don’t. For more details on some of these variations check out our Knowledge Base topic on Flow Protocols. Flow Exporting Devices.

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Monitoring DNS with Kentik Detect

Kentik

This information is turned into flow data and sent over an SSL encrypted channel to the Kentik Data Engine (KDE), from which it is queryable in Kentik Detect. For a deeper dive, see our Knowledge Base article on Host Configuration.).

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