Kentik

JUNE 27, 2023

Kentik customers move workloads to (and from) multiple clouds, integrate existing hybrid applications with new cloud services, migrate to Virtual WAN to secure private network traffic, and make on-premises data and applications redundant to multiple clouds – or cloud data and applications redundant to the data center.

Azure 105

Azure Cloud Load Balancer Firewall 105

Kentik

JANUARY 6, 2021

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. Data center : Leaf and spine switches, top of rack, modular, fixed and stackable. Application layer : ADCs, load balancers and service meshes.

Network 128

Network WAN Wireless Load Balancer 128

Kentik

APRIL 24, 2023

We believe a data-driven approach to network operations is the key to maintaining the mechanism that delivers applications from data centers, public clouds, and containerized architectures to actual human beings. Ultimately, we’re solving a network operations problem using a data-driven approach. More data!

Network 52

Network Data Load Balancer Strategy 52

Kentik

MAY 29, 2018

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.

Network 52

Network Metrics Load Balancer WAN 52

Kentik

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

To quote: “Today’s typical NPMD vendors have their solutions geared toward traditional data center and branch office architecture, with the centralized hosting of applications.”. It’s now possible to get rich performance metrics from your key application and infrastructure servers, even components like HAProxy and NGINX load balancers.

Network 40

Network Performance Data Center WAN 40

Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

When evaluating solutions, whether to internal problems or those of our customers, I like to keep the core metrics fairly simple: will this reduce costs, increase performance, or improve the network’s reliability? It’s often taken for granted by network specialists that there is a trade-off among these three facets. Resiliency.

Network 104

Network Load Balancer Cloud Backup 104

Kentik

OCTOBER 3, 2016

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 data center? Is it the network?

Big Data 40

Big Data Internet Network Performance 40