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Hyper Scale VPC Flow Logs enrichment to provide Network Insight

Netflix Tech

Sonar is an IPv4 and IPv6 address identity tracking service. The enriched data allows us to analyze networks across a variety of dimensions (e.g. availability, performance, and security), to ensure applications can effectively deliver their data payload across a globally dispersed cloud-based ecosystem.

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Monitoring DNS with Kentik Detect

Kentik

As with any critical component, network operations needs to be able to continuously monitor DNS performance and to respond quickly to any issues that may arise. Using Kentik’s software host agent with the Dashboard functionality of the Kentik Detect portal gives you the tools you need to ensure that DNS is operating at peak performance.

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NetFlow, sFlow, and Flow Extensibility, Part 2

Kentik

Flow records incorporate the standard attributes of network traffic, but it’s often overlooked that today’s flow records can also incorporate many other types of data such as application semantics and network and application performance data. That still leaves the issue of what’s the best form to use for the extended data.