Kentik Cloud

The Kentik Cloud page is covered in the following topics:

• About Kentik Cloud
• Kentik Cloud Visualizations

Note: For general information about monitoring your cloud resources with Kentik, start with Cloud Overview.

The Kentik Cloud is a curated set of visualizations (a.k.a. "widgets") designed to give you a high-level overview of various aspects of your cloud traffic and infrastructure. Access to this page currently depends on your organization having licensed a CloudPak (check with Customer Support for more information) and registered an AWS cloud:

• If you have one or more AWS clouds registered with Kentik — via your initial Kentik setup (see Setup Overview) or via the Public Clouds page in Settings — the heading of the Cloud section on the portal's main menu will include a right arrow (as shown in screenshot at right) and you will be able to access the Kentik Cloud page by clicking on the heading.
• If you have no AWS clouds registered with Kentik the Cloud heading on the main menu will not be a link and you won't have access to the Kentik Clouds page.

At present the Kentik Cloud page includes the following visualizations:

• Cloud Traffic Overview: Visualizations, each on a separate tab, of Total traffic volume as well as the volume of traffic matching each of the following traffic profiles (see Simple Traffic Profile):
  - Inbound: Traffic that originates outside your network and terminates inside your network.
  - Outbound: Traffic that originates inside your network and terminates outside your network.
  - Internal: Traffic that both originates and terminates inside your network.
  - Through: Traffic that both originates and terminates outside your network.
  - Other: Traffic that is not classified by the above profiles (see Traffic Classified as Other).
  Note: For more detail about the traffic on each tab, use the View in Data Explorer button.
• Insights Overview: Insights help you by finding interesting issues with your data and configurations (see Insights & Alerting).
• AWS Inventory: A breakdown of the various provider-specific network entities and components related to your cloud resources.
• AWS InterVPC Traffic by Transit Gateway: Provides a top-X breakdown of the traffic that is being routed through your transit gateways.
• AWS Gateway Traffic: Shows increases and decreases in utilization for the various types of gateways present in your infrastructure. Unexpected increases of outbound traffic can lead to higher data transfer costs.
• AWS Security Group Reject Actions: Shows where your environment is rejecting traffic. Useful for security analysis and connectivity troubleshooting.
• AWS - All Regions: Shows the total traffic volume on your AWS environment and a breakdown by traffic profile.
• Public Cloud Flow: Shows how your flow logs translate to flows/second and lets you view your total flow consumption in one glance.

The following additional visualizations are shown only if your organization has registered a cloud in Kentik from the corresponding provider:

• Azure - All Regions: Shows the total traffic volume on your Azure environment and a breakdown by traffic profile.
• GCP - All Regions: Shows the total traffic volume on your GCP environment and a breakdown by traffic profile.
• IBM - All Regions: Shows the total traffic volume on your IBM environment and a breakdown by traffic profile.