Kentik Firehose
Break down silos between data and teams.
Export network data. Anywhere.
- Bring network observability to your other analytics tools and data lakes.
- Deliver a cost-effective, consolidated and blazing-fast ingest pipeline.
Enriched network data you can use
- Kentik generates the richest source of network data in the market.
- Kentik processes hundreds of trillions of network records, logs, streaming telemetry, SNMP, and synthetic tests, and enriches them with the context of application, routing, location, and more.
- With Firehose, customers have full access to this data to use and extract value in unique ways.
Reduce costs and improve speed
- Bring enriched network context into your analytics tools and data lakes. Kentik has built the fastest and most cost-effective ingest pipeline.
- Flow data can quickly overwhelm data lakes and data warehouses — such as AWS S3, Snowflake and Splunk — slowing down analytics and exploding costs.
- Kentik Firehose can aggregate your ingest pipelines, feed your analytics and data lake platforms at an unmatched speed, and give you control over sampling rates.
“Now users can analyze how much traffic their app generates and how it is affected by network conditions.”
FAQs About Kentik Firehose
What is Kentik Firehose?
Kentik Firehose is Kentik’s observability data pipeline — it streams enriched network telemetry out of the Kentik platform to your other analytics tools, data lakes, and data warehouses. Instead of leaving network data siloed in a single tool, Firehose makes Kentik’s enriched flow, SNMP, streaming telemetry, and synthetic data available to the rest of your stack through a consolidated, cost-effective ingest pipeline.
How does Kentik Firehose fit into a network telemetry pipeline?
Firehose is the outbound stage of a network telemetry pipeline — the part that delivers collected, normalized, and enriched data to the systems that consume it. Where the inbound side of a pipeline ingests raw telemetry from devices and clouds, Firehose carries Kentik’s ingest-time enrichment (routing, geographic, application, and business context) downstream to data lakes, SIEMs, and observability platforms, so those tools receive network data that is already meaningful rather than raw. For how the full pipeline works end to end, see Kentik’s guide to network telemetry pipelines.
What data can I export with Kentik Firehose, and where can it send it?
Firehose exports Kentik’s enriched network data — including flow records, SNMP and streaming telemetry metrics, and synthetic test results — to analytics platforms, data lakes, and data warehouses such as AWS S3, Snowflake, and Splunk. Because the exported data carries Kentik’s enrichment, downstream teams can analyze network traffic alongside their other operational and business data instead of treating it as an isolated silo.
How does Kentik Firehose help control data costs?
Raw flow data can quickly overwhelm data lakes and warehouses, slowing analytics and inflating storage and ingest costs. Firehose provides a consolidated, high-throughput ingest pipeline with control over sampling rates, so teams can feed downstream platforms efficiently rather than forwarding unfiltered, unenriched telemetry from every device to every tool.
Is the data exported by Kentik Firehose enriched?
Yes. Kentik enriches every record at ingest with context such as application, routing (BGP and AS path), and geographic location, and Firehose carries that enrichment downstream. Tools receiving data through Firehose get network telemetry that is already contextualized — a named application and customer rather than a bare IP-and-byte record — so the rest of your stack benefits from the same enrichment Kentik applies internally.