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Fascinating Facts from Kentik

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Big Data Stats Reveal Industry Trends. That’s how much flow data is ingested by Kentik Data Engine (KDE), the distributed big data backend that powers Kentik Detect®. Cisco Systems is by far the market leader in the overall IT Networking sector. While Kentik Detect supports IPv6, only 0.2%

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Monitoring DNS with Kentik Detect

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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. Once we have the data in our distributed big data database there are all kinds of powerful things we can do with it, including custom query-based Dashboards.

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NetFlow, sFlow, and Flow Extensibility, Part 2

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This approach would take a little bit less communication and require a lot less work to match templates to data packets. You could take the well-known data types like IPv4 and IPv6 and build a fast path for them. That still leaves the issue of what’s the best form to use for the extended data. Kentik KFlow.