Kentik Brief

Kentik Overview for Service Providers

Running modern service provider networks is hard. Infrastructure teams must balance cost, security, performance, and complexity at massive scale. As traffic surges and AI reshapes performance demands, the need for better network insight for telcos, hyperscalers, data centers, and ISPs has never been greater.

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Take the hard work out of running your network.

The Kentik Network Intelligence Platform transforms massive volumes of network data into action in real time, empowering service providers to improve performance, increase reliability, reduce costs, and fuel innovation at scale.

Expert network AI: AI built by network experts to make critical insights accessible to every engineer.

Modern SaaS platform: One platform to unify and correlate cloud, device, flow, synthetic data, and the state of the global internet.

Network intelligence for every environment: Real-time source of truth that understands every network in context – from backbone, to edge, public cloud, and the internet.

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Kentik platform capabilities

Network AI
Troubleshoot rapidly and instantly answer complex network questions – from root cause to route optimization – with AI that understands your network in full context.

Network Monitoring
Modern monitoring unifies traffic flows and network device metrics – from SNMP to streaming telemetry – to make fixing the network more efficient.

Capacity Planning
Plan network capacity with confidence – identify bandwidth hogs, forecast growth, and prevent runout with utilization insights, historical trends, and automated projections.

CDN and OTT Analytics
Improve CDN traffic delivery and OTT performance for subscribers with deep visibility into your digital supply chain, content delivery paths, and OTT services mix.

Network Traffic Analysis
Power precise network planning, troubleshooting, and optimization with best-in-class traffic analysis enriched by deep metadata and internet-wide context.

“We use Kentik to continually improve our network at ServiceNow.”

Davin Camara, VP, Cloud Network Services
ServiceNow

Network Security
Detect anomalies, verify policy, and stop threats – from botnets and route leaks to BGP hijacking – with intelligent alerting and automated DDoS detection and mitigation.

Peering Optimization
Optimize performance and reduce transit costs by analyzing traffic flows with PeeringDB data to identify ideal peering partners and refine your interconnection strategy.

White Label Customer Portal
Launch new analytics, security, and monitoring offerings with My Kentik Portal (MKP) to provide more value to customers, grow revenue streams, and differentiate your portfolio.

Synthetic Monitoring
Proactively test for user-facing issues and uphold SLAs across networks, services, clouds, and SaaS, using rich internet context to deliver peak customer experience.

Multi-Cloud Observability
Gain complete visibility into traffic to, from, within, and between cloud provider networks, regions, availability zones, virtual private clouds, VNets, and services – alongside on-prem network traffic.

Network Cost Intelligence
Monitor network cost trends and traffic economics across your infrastructure to identify inefficiencies, optimize interconnects, and reduce overall spend.

Sales and Market Intelligence
Find upsell and cross-sell opportunities in customer traffic patterns, and equip sales teams with market intelligence to position value, defend pricing, and close more deals.

World-class operations for service provider networks
Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications – and innovation – at scale.

“Kentik gives us the level of detail necessary to pinpoint a problem and resolve it quickly.”

Malte von dem Hagen, Director of the Global Backbone
GoDaddy
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