Kentik helps network teams go beyond infrastructure monitoring with deep flow analytics, routing intelligence, cloud path visibility, and AI-guided investigations.
Deep network intelligence
not just broad monitoring
Go beyond device health and top talkers with flow, routing, cloud paths, and synthetics in one place
AI that investigates like
a network engineer
Kentik AI Advisor reasons through multi-step investigations using real network telemetry and explains what changed
Predictable,
network-aligned pricing
Deep AI-assisted network investigations, without the premium AI surcharge
Kentik: Network Intelligence Platform | LogicMonitor: Broad Hybrid Observability | |
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Primary focus | Purpose-built for network teams that need to investigate traffic, routing, cloud paths, and network behavior deeply. | Designed for ITOps teams consolidating broad infrastructure monitoring across servers, network, cloud, and logs. |
AI/ML capabilities | AI Advisor acts as a virtual network engineer, reasoning through multi-step investigations across flow, routing, cloud, and synthetics. Kentik also leverages RCA tools such as ping, traceroute, config diffs, and SSH workflows for deep diagnosis. | Edwin AI provides event intelligence, alert correlation, incident summaries, and automation. Strong at noise reduction across infrastructure signals, but deep network diagnosis depends on the depth of the underlying telemetry. |
Flow analytics | Deep, query-driven traffic investigations with BGP, routing, cloud, and business context enrichment. Built for forensics, peering, DDoS context, and traffic engineering. | Supports NetFlow, sFlow, and IPFIX for top talkers, utilization, and QoS reporting. Flow visibility is reporting-oriented and not designed for deep ad hoc traffic investigation. |
Cloud and hybrid visibility | Specialized cloud network visibility with enriched VPC flow logs, cloud path analysis, and Kentik Kube/eBPF for Kubernetes. Network-centric synthetics help prove whether issues are on-net, ISP-related, or caused by cloud routing. | Broad hybrid cloud infrastructure monitoring across hundreds of AWS, Azure, and GCP services. Cloud network traffic analysis, routing, and traffic engineering are not a primary focus. |
Metrics and telemetry | Collects SNMP, streaming telemetry (gNMI), syslogs, SNMP traps, and SSH data. Strong workflows tie device health directly to traffic analysis. | Collector-based monitoring via SNMP, WMI, SSH, and API with broad device coverage. No streaming telemetry support and no strong network-telemetry-first workflow. |
Synthetic monitoring | 300+ global testing agents with inside-out, outside-in, and private-to-private tests, fully integrated with flow, routing, and cloud data. | Digital experience story was strengthened by the Catchpoint acquisition, but Catchpoint remains a separate product experience and the integration story is still evolving. |
Network planning and optimization | Capacity forecasting, peering and interconnection analysis, cloud egress optimization, traffic cost intelligence, and provider/CDN/transit visibility. | Strongest around availability monitoring and incident response. Network economics, peering, and cost optimization are not first-class workflows. |
Pricing | Network-value-aligned pricing with a predictable scaling model. AI capabilities are included rather than reserved for a premium observability tier. | Per-device subscription with feature tiers. Advanced tiers with AI can be expensive, and additional usage and retention costs may apply depending on deployment. |
Deployment | Delivered as a SaaS platform with centralized collection options, including the Kentik Universal Agent and direct-to-SaaS flow collection. Kentik Data Engine is designed for high-volume network telemetry. | SaaS with collector-based architecture. Collector sizing, placement, and lifecycle management become operational considerations in larger or more distributed environments. |
“Kentik saved us time and gave us full confidence that we’d be aware of and be able to respond to any cloud or on-prem network issues on a timely basis.”
– Louis Bolanos, Staff Cloud Network Engineer“We use Kentik to continually improve our network at ServiceNow.”
– Davin Camara, VP, Cloud Network Services“Kentik allows us to better understand DDoS attacks and investigate security events.”
– Miguel Benjumea Ortiz, Network Administrator“Previously, we didn’t have anywhere near the granularity of data we have with Kentik.”
– Jurriën Rasing, Group Product Manager for Platform Engineering