Plan Network Capacity with Confidence at Scale
Plan ahead. Avoid traffic jams. Optimize resources.
Instantly understand link capacity, utilization, and performance.
Complete hybrid cloud visibility from data center to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI.
Custom thresholds and automated notifications enable action before links overload and cause downtime.
Plan complex networks faster
- Get a clear and immediate picture of current traffic volumes and capacity status of your network interfaces.
- Learn which endpoints are consuming more bandwidth than they should be.
- Create automatically generated traffic baselines so you can spot anomalous traffic and bandwidth hogs.
Reduce network costs
- Right-size your WAN connections.
- Prevent traffic congestion due to underprovisioning and overutilization.
- Explore trend data to keep tabs on how actual network and interface utilization is tracking.
- Figure out what applications are actually using up available bandwidth.
Predict the future
- Eliminate surprises with daily forecasting, automatic runout projections, and cost forecasts.
- Meet future demands with one platform for capacity planning, flow analysis, and connectivity costs to meet future demands.
- Forecast future network resource requirements based on historical data and trends.
“Given the sheer scale and complexity of our network, planning used to take days.
With Kentik, we get the data we need in seconds.”
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FAQs about Network Capacity Planning
How do I forecast bandwidth demand and plan capacity upgrades?
Kentik’s Capacity Planning workflow automates bandwidth forecasting by analyzing SNMP interface metrics and historical traffic to compute both utilization and runout for any group of links. Instead of spreadsheet gymnastics, you get daily forecasts and automatic runout projections that show when specific links are likely to saturate. From there you can prioritize upgrades based on which interfaces will run out of capacity first and how critical they are to your business.
How can I right-size transit and IX capacity for peak traffic?
To right-size transit and IX capacity, Kentik lets you treat each interconnect and IX port as a capacity-planning object: it tracks current utilization, peak traffic, and long-term trends, then projects when those links will hit critical thresholds. By combining this with Kentik’s interconnect and cost analytics, you can decide when to upgrade specific transit or IX ports — and where peering or traffic engineering can offload traffic instead of blindly over-provisioning.