This article covers the Kentik Cloud page.
Note: For general information about monitoring your cloud resources with Kentik, start with Cloud Overview.
Kentik Cloud is a dashboard for cloud-related visualizations.
About Kentik Cloud
The Kentik Cloud page can be accessed by clicking the Cloud heading on the main nav menu of the Kentik portal. This page features a curated set of visualizations for a high-level overview of various aspects of your cloud traffic and infrastructure.
Key Features
Customizable Layout: Drag the title bar of any visualization to rearrange it on the page.
Supported Providers: Visualizations are available for AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
Kentik Cloud UI
The Kentik Cloud page includes the following main functional elements:
Show control: Located at the right of the page's title bar, this control allows you to show a specific cloud providers' visualizations in the display area or to show all providers.
Notes:
Only providers for which your organization has cloud resources are shown as options in the Show control.
The Cloud Traffic Overview and Public Cloud Flow visualizations update automatically based on the selected provider (see Common Visualizations).
Display area: The section of the page where visualizations are displayed.
Visualization Title Bar Elements
Each individual visualization includes the following elements in its title bar:
Information icon: Hover over this icon see a brief explanation of the visualization.
Action button (vertical ellipsis): Click to reveal the View in Data Explorer option, which opens the visualization in Data Explorer.
Kentik Cloud Visualizations
The Kentik Cloud page includes both Common Visualizations and Provider-Specific Visualizations.
Common Visualizations
These visualizations are available for all cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI):
Cloud Traffic Overview: Tabs summarizing traffic volume as divided into the following profiles (see Simple Traffic Profile). Click the tab for the corresponding visualization:
Total: Total traffic volume across all profiles.
Internal: Traffic both originating and terminating inside your network.
Inbound: Traffic originating outside your network and terminating inside.
Outbound: Traffic originating inside your network and terminating outside.
Other: Traffic not classified by the above profiles (see Traffic Classified as Other).
Note: For more details on each tab, use the View in Data Explorer button.
Public Cloud Flow: Displays your traffic flows per second for each cloud provider. Allows you to view your total flow consumption at a glance.
All Regions: Shows traffic volume across all regions of the provider and a breakdown by traffic profile. Example name: "GCP – All Regions".
Insights Overview: Provides insights by identifying interesting issues with your data and configurations (see Insights).
Provider-Specific Visualizations
These visualizations are only available if your organization has registered a cloud in Kentik for the mentioned provider:
Gateway Traffic (AWS, Azure only): Displays increases and decreases in utilization for various types of gateways in your infrastructure. Unexpected increases in outbound traffic can lead to higher data transfer costs. Example name: "AWS Gateway Traffic".
Entity Explorer (Azure, AWS, OCI only): A searchable list of provider-specific network entities and components related to your cloud resources.
AWS InterVPC Traffic by Transit Gateway: A table providing a top-X breakdown of the traffic routed through your AWS transit gateways.
AWS Security Group Reject Actions: A table listing source and destination AWS VPCs where traffic is being rejected. This is useful for security analysis and connectivity troubleshooting.
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