Kentik Blog

Discover how our engineering team mixed strategy with socializing during an unforgettable offsite in New Orleans. From team-building sessions to airboat adventures and lively evenings in the French Quarter, the trip showcased our commitment to creating a vibrant, connected team culture.

Kentik’s Jim Meehan and Crystal Li share their insights from VMworld 2019, with a focus on news from the worlds of networking, multi-cloud, Kubernetes and security.

Kentik CTO Jonah Kowall highlights challenges and opportunites in network automation and describes how Kentik is leading the way in providing next-generation solutions for automation, notification, advanced API integrations with telemetry, and more. “Every organization has an automation goal, and it’s no doubt that network automation is not only essential to avoid costly outages, but also helps organizations scale without putting people in the work path… The problem is that every organization has a storied history of automation tools, meaning we already have at least a dozen of them in our organizations across various silos and stacks, some of which are commercial and some are open source.”

Kentik explains the advantage that streaming telemetry (also known as streaming network telemetry) brings to network analytics and our approach to leveraging streaming telemetry for maximum value.

Learn how enterprise video communications leader, Zoom, uses Kentik for network visibility, performance, peering analytics and improved customer support. Zoom’s Alex Guerrero, senior manager of SaaS operations, and Mike Leis, senior network engineer, share how they use Kentik to help Zoom deliver “frictionless meetings.”

At one point, data was called “the new oil.” While that’s certainly an apt description for the insights we can extract from data, most organizations today are finding that new data repositories and “data lakes” often don’t provide the expected benefits due to the analytics challenge. CTO Jonah Kowall explains how advanced data enrichment techniques, leveraging AIOps technologies, can make the promise of data analysis a reality.

CTO Jonah Kowall introduces Kentik’s AIOps solution for network management, explaining the need for evolution and innovation in the network performance monitoring and diagnostics market and providing an overview of the components of Kentik’s revolutionary platform.

Kentik’s Greg Villain and Jason Philippon explain the basics of using Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to protect against BGP prefix hijack attacks and stop them from propagating across the internet.

Crystal Li’s new Technical Guide walks you through new Kentik features for supporting Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), explaining Kentik’s new RPKI Validation Status and RPKI Quick Status dimensions.

Kentik’s Jim Meehan and Crystal Li report on what they learned from speaking with enterprise network professionals at Cisco Live 2019, and what those attendees expect from a truly modern network analytics solution.