Network Intelligence and Superior DDoS Mitigation with Kentik and Cloudflare Magic Transit

Kentik is the world’s most powerful network analytics and monitoring platform. As a massively scalable datastore in an easy-to-onboard SaaS, Kentik correlates scores of key data points about your network traffic flows from both data centers and cloud providers and delivers actionable real-time insights into current status and trends. Our intuitive portal provides ready-made views of current activity, workflows targeted for common use cases, and power tools that let you drill down into every detail of your network traffic. Kentik gives you the comprehensive picture you need — both real-time and historical — to answer key operational questions in areas including network performance, system utilization and capacity, and DDoS attacks, as well as providing business intelligence such as peering opportunities and potential cost savings.

Cloudflare Magic Transit protects entire IP subnets from DDoS attacks, while also accelerating network traffic. It uses Cloudflare’s global network to mitigate attacks, employing two fundamental networking protocols, BGP and GRE, for routing and encapsulation.

All your network assets can be safeguarded, whether on-premises or in private or public hosted cloud environments.

This offer includes the following:

• Access to all workflows in the Operate, Edge, Protect, and Service Provider sections of the Kentik portal for 120 days.
• Ingest into the Kentik Data Engine (KDE) from the following data sources:
  • Flow records from up to six BGP-speaking network devices (e.g. routers) sending up to 1,000 flows-per-second (FPS) each.
  • Flow logs from cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure and IBM) sending up to 2,000 FPS each.
• 30-day data retention (maximum lookback for historical queries)
• Up to 50 API queries per hour

The Kentik trial part of this offer is not available to current Kentik customers.

This offer includes:

• Cloudflare Magic Transit at no charge for 120 days
• Over 42+ Tbps of network capacity 
• Supported integration via BGP routing and GRE encapsulation 
• Support for all IP services 
• 200+ data centers for DDoS mitigation 
• On-demand DDoS support

The complimentary trial subscription to Kentik services runs for four months from the date of registration. Registration must be complete by December 31, 2020.

To take advantage of this promotion, you must purchase Magic Transit from Cloudflare by December 31, 2020. You must agree to Cloudflare’s standard Enterprise Subscription Agreement and to a 12-month minimum term following the expiration of your free 120 days as offered in the solution. Upon signing Cloudflare’s standard enterprise subscription, the earliest date at which you can terminate your contract with no fee is within 120-days upon signing. The no-charge period cannot exceed more than 120-days. Bandwidth and other usage limits apply and will be assessed by the Cloudflare Account team.

Access to Kentik starts immediately upon successful registration, which includes onboarding at least one data source (network device or cloud provider). If you need help with onboarding, please reach out to us at support@kentik.com.

Within a day or two of sign-up, your primary points of contact (relationship managers) will reach out to you by email to introduce themselves and offer any additional help needed to get you up to speed.

Note: We don’t currently anticipate the need for a queueing system, but if demand for this offer requires us to establish a queue we will announce details at that time.

Upon the end of the Kentik’s 120-day trial period, access to Kentik will be automatically terminated.

To take full advantage of your joint trial of Kentik and Cloudflare Magic Transit, you’ll need to have network devices sending flow data to Kentik and also setup Cloudflare Magic Transit as a mitigation platform in the Kentik interface. Visit the Kentik Knowledge Base for step-by-step details.

Kentik supports unlimited users per customer.

Upon expiration of your complimentary trial period you may, at your option, subscribe to the Kentik service. If you’re interested we’ll work with you to structure a package that meets your needs.

Kentik stores your network data in the massively scalable Kentik Data Engine (KDE) data store. Data from your devices (flow data, BGP, SNMP, etc.) and clouds (flow logs) is correlated along with other relevant information (e.g., GeoIP, DNS, threat feeds, etc.) into timestamped flow records. Data may come to KDE from any of the following sources:

• Direct: From routers or switches directly to KDE.
• Host agent: From hosts that are monitored using kprobe, Kentik’s software host agent.
• Proxy agent: From routers or switches via a locally hosted instance of kproxy, Kentik’s proxy agent, which can be configured to collect and encrypt both flow and SNMP.
• Cloud provider: From the cloud platform’s flow log collector (method varies depending on provider).

Regardless of the source, the onboarding process involves a few settings in Kentik as well as configuration of the source itself to send the data. The Kentik portal includes wizards that will guide you through each step, and Kentik support is available to provide any needed assistance.

Initial registration and setup of a single data source should take less than 30 minutes. Additional data sources can then be registered in a few minutes each.

When you join as part of the Kentik + Cloudflare joint solution you'll receive the same excellent support as our other customers:

• Our primary support mechanism is via support@kentik.com
• We maintain a dedicated Kentik Users Slack channel.

Kentik takes extremely seriously the security of the data collected for, sent to, and ingested by our data platform. Information regarding security, compliance and certification, data protection and segregation, access and identity management, and privacy questions is available in the Kentik Knowledge Base.