Kentik vs. Arbor Networks
You can’t run today’s networks with yesterday’s appliances.
It’s time to modernize your analytics for the cloud era with Kentik.
Kentik delivers the most powerful and granular network analytics in the market today and eliminates the massive gaps and blind spots found in legacy tools. Scalable, powerful, and easy to use, Kentik was built for modern networks, including the Internet and Cloud (SaaS, IaaS) networks your organization increasingly relies on.
Unlike traditional “boxes,” Kentik is SaaS-based, internet-native and provides the most robust real-time and historical network analytics insights in the market, trusted by the world’s most demanding SaaS companies, enterprises, governments, and service providers.
| Differentiators | KENTIK | ARBOR NETWORKS |
|---|---|---|
| ADOPTION | 50+ customers replaced Arbor with Kentik | 0 customers replaced Kentik with Arbor |
| DEPLOYMENT | Fully-managed SaaS, cloud or on-premises | Customer managed appliances, VMs and storage at additional cost |
| CLOUD MONITORING | Integrates with AWS, GCP and Azure for full visibility across cloud VPC networks | No |
| DATA ENRICHMENT | Overlays custom business-specific tags onto network data like location names, usernames, app / service names. Group and filter data using human-readable labels. | No |
| INTERNET CONTEXT | Labels internet traffic with CDN provider names and application name / type / provider. | No |
| DATA GRANULARITY | 1 second | 5 minutes |
| DATA AVAILABILITY | All data received | Predefined “objects” only |
| DATA FILTERING | Unlimited filter terms | Two filter terms |
| DATA GROUPING | Up to 8 dimensions | 1 dimension |
| DETECTION / ALERTING | Comprehensive ML-based network traffic change detection | DDoS only |
| MITIGATION | Integrates with multiple hardware mitigation vendors + automation API | Arbor mitigation hardware only |
| DASHBOARDS | Per-user fully customizable dashboards | One static dashboard |
| API | Robust REST API fully supports queries, configuration and raw data export. | Limited SOAP XML API supports some query types |
