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Customize your view of important network information.
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- Show charts and tables from any portal module.
- See the health status of deployed software agents.
- See the configuration status of cloud resources.
- Show insights from traffic, metrics, and synthetic tests.
- Get an overview of recent DDoS attacks and mitigations.
- See traffic by connectivity type (peering, transit, etc.).
- See how costs add up for the current billing cycle.
See every level of your Hybrid IT network infrastructure.
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- See the building blocks of your hybrid network.
- See traffic between cloud and on-prem.
- Drill down to individual devices and interfaces.
- Map internal architecture (e.g. leaf and spine).
- See your sites on a global weather map.
- See traffic volume on links between network entities.
See and respond to alerts from Kentik's alerting system.
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- Create custom alert policies with multiple thresholds.
- Create and assign mitigations against attacks.
- See current and historical alerts generated by policies.
- Dig into details about the traffic that triggered an alert.
- Acknowledge and clear alerts.
See and manage your Dashboards and Saved Views.
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- Combine multiple visualizations into Dashboards.
- Access Saved Views made from Data Explorer results.
- Access, edit, and share dashboards and saved views.
Get answers to natural language questions.
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- Troubleshoot network issues using iterative Q&A.
- Let Kentik AI find answers from traffic and metrics.
- See results from a succession of queries.
- Save your journeys for future reference.
Manage tenancy for your MKP customers.
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- Inform your users on network status and performance.
- Offer a curated Kentik experience with your own brand.
- Filter chart and table views for individual customers.
Get a high-level overview of your current traffic.
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- View charts and tables by traffic profile.
- Apply custom aggregation, metrics, and time-range.
- See traffic data and stats by sites and cloud providers.
- Break down traffic by specific dimensions.
- Drill down to individual devices and interfaces.
Query current and past traffic to see charts and tables.
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- Query unaggregated data freely.
- Investigate traffic conditions and anomalies in real time.
- Forensically drill down into historical events.
- Visualize traffic in more than a dozen chart types.
- Group or filter results by hundreds of dimensions.
See interface utilization trends and projected runout.
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- Determine when to upgrade your own bandwidth.
- View capacity to individual network providers.
- Find underutilized links to repurpose or decommission.
- See when to recommend upgrades to customers.
Get real-time notices about noteworthy traffic behaviors.
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- Learn about unexpected variations in traffic patterns.
- See impending issues related to capacity or runout.
Query KDE for the raw values in ingested flow records.
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- Investigate flow records in real time or historically.
- Examine flows for specific devices.
- Examine flows for specific time ranges.
- Group or filter results by hundreds of dimensions.
See an overview of test status and agent deployment.
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- Check the health of tested links.
- See tests reporting non-healthy status.
- See your organization’s currently deployed agents.
- Monitor your usage of synthetics test credits.
Manage tests and see performance in charts and tables.
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- Set tests for routing, network, and applications.
- See results for latency, packet loss, and jitter.
- Check status and details of all currently defined tests.
- See status and details of subtests.
- Use traffic telemetry to guide testing.
- Test DNS, HTTP, and page loads.
Manage deployment of synthetics software agents.
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- Deploy synthetic testing agents to your infrastructure.
- See private and global agent locations on a map.
- Get a filterable breakdown of deployed agent types.
- See agent info, including AS, IP, etc..
Correlate performance with routing using BGP events.
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- Correlate network and web issues with routing issues.
- Check route announcement and withdrawal events.
- Set prefixes and ASNs to monitor.
- See a timeline of the last 12 hours' events.
Check the health of public services, clouds, and networks.
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- Stay on top of key features of the public Internet.
- Check applications, services, clouds, and networks.
- See health, performance, and availability.
- Monitor web health without using test credits.
Create a custom dashboard for your network metrics.
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- Set threshold-based alerts on metrics.
- Get an overview of your network's health.
- View active alerts.
Query your infrastructure metrics and metadata.
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- Run custom queries against all of your NMS data.
Run NMS queries derived from your own words.
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- Ask custom queries using natural language.
Manage the devices from which you collect NMS data.
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- Detect when a device goes down.
- Detect component failure, e.g. power supply or fan.
- Monitor routing protocols like BGP and ISIS.
- Alert for up/down and other unhealthy states.
- Monitor device KPIs like CPU and RAM.
Manage the interfaces from which you collect NMS data.
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- Check interface capacity.
- Monitor interface statistics like utilization and errors.
See the impact of routing changes on interface utilization.
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- Assess traffic volume relative to capacity.
- Get advance notice of developing capacity crises.
- Measure interface utilization by prefix.
- Allocate capacity based on dynamic analysis of trends.
- Set target utilization for custom interface groups.
Understand costs for traffic on edge interfaces.
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- See send/receive costs for individual ASes.
- Compare costs for specific peering or transit providers.
- True-up provider invoices and discover billing errors.
- Eliminate billing surprises with automatic forecasts.
- See how fixed costs affect price per megabit.
- Understand the drivers of overall network spend.
Find ISPs, enterprises, and content providers to peer with.
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- Find new connectivity to optimize costs/performance.
- Evaluate potential peering partners.
- Build data-driven business cases for interconnection.
- Measure traffic ratios and enforce peering agreements.
Protect against attacks with customizable presets.
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- Automate detection, investigation, and mitigation.
- Quickly see all current and recent attacks.
- Visualize attack characteristics and network impact.
- Minimize false positives/negatives with ML baselining.
- Tailor responses to attack type and volume.
- Mitigate with RTBH, Flowspec, and/or third party.
Prevent malicious disruptions of network availability.
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- Create mitigation methods on multiple platforms.
- Mitigate with RTBH, Flowspec, and/or third party.
- Assign different methods based on attack severity.
- Use policy thresholds to trigger automatic mitigation.
- Apply manual mitigations in real time.
Use reputation data to show traffic from infected hosts.
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- Monitor traffic associated with known botnet C&C hosts.
- See traffic from known sources of phishing and viruses.
- View timelines of recent malicious traffic activity.
- See malicious traffic by prefix, ASN, and geography.
Verify AS authorization for prefixes in announced routes.
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- Identify sites whose traffic fails strict RPKI validation.
- Identify traffic that will drop under strict validation.
- See RPKI invalids by status, site, router, or next-hop.
See the nature, cost, and performance of your CDN traffic.
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- See precisely how CDNs connect with your network.
- See how CDN routing impacts cost and performance.
- Compare external CDN traffic to embedded caches.
Track, categorize, and drill down into OTT service traffic.
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- Detect and analyze major “content events."
- Categorize OTT utilization by user and delivery types.
- Understand service impact by bitrate-per-subscriber.
- Evaluate the effect of zero-rating content providers.
- Be notified of service or provider performance issues.
- Support retention by correlating UX with service delivery.
- Uncover suspicious traffic from or between users.
Identify providers, peers, and customers for any AS.
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- Assess competition in existing and new markets.
- Validate provider position in various markets.
- Define markets by customer type or territory.
- Identify single-homed ASes to prospect.
- Determine existing providers for a given prospect.
- Identify networks with which to peer.
- See an AS's inbound path from another provider.
See high-level cloud traffic and infrastructure.
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- See cloud traffic breakdown by network classification.
- Filter widgets by cloud provider.
- Track provider traffic volume by region.
- Find cloud entities by type for each provider.
- See insights from intelligent analysis of cloud traffic.
See traffic and performance in and to/from Kubernetes.
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- See status and counts for clusters, nodes, and pods.
- See traffic between clusters, infrastructure, and the Internet.
- Show connections between entities.
- Drill down into individual namespaces.
- See traffic and performance details for entities and links.
See overviews tailored to specific cloud providers.
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- See region- and zone-aware breakdowns.
- See top talkers, inbound and outbound.
- See traffic volume by ports, VMs, and zones.
- See latency by VM and by zone.
- Widgets vary depending on cloud provider.
Track cloud service network performance.
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- Monitor Direct Connect and Site-to-Site VPN connections.
- See the paths between AWS and on-prem infrastructure.
- Monitor the performance of cloud to on-prem links.
- Use flow data to guide synthetic testing of cloud services.
Monitor and troubleshoot cloud issues.
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- See traffic to, from, and within cloud providers.
- Get details on regions, availability zones, VPCs, subnets, etc.
- See traffic breakdown by application, IP address, etc.
- Learn about cloud performance results from synthetic tests.
- Learn why traffic is being dropped in AWS.
- Get reports that analyze any source or destination path.
