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Today, 84% of enterprises have reportedly embraced a multi-cloud strategy, lured in by the promise of improved agility, resilience, and innovation. But that multi-cloud adoption comes with challenges. Read on to learn more about how a multi-cloud strategy paired with observability can simplify that complexity.

Are you considering the switch from network engineer to cloud engineer? This post won’t teach you everything needed to become a cloud expert, but hopefully, it will create a level of comfort and familiarity such that you can start your journey to the cloud from here.

Migrating to public clouds initially promised cost savings, but effective management now requires a strategic approach to monitoring traffic. Kentik provides comprehensive visibility across multi-cloud environments, enabling detailed traffic analysis and custom billing reports to optimize cloud spending and make informed decisions.

The FCC recently published a proposal to require nine major US internet service providers to deploy RPKI Route Origin Validation (ROV). In this post, we’ll look at the proposal and where the nine service providers currently stand with respect to ROV.

Dubbed “The man who can see the internet” by the Washington Post, Doug Madory has made significant contributions to the field of internet measurement. In this post, we explore how internet measurement works and what secrets it can uncover.

Testing NetFlow used to require time, expertise, and lab equipment. Using Kentik and the new Kappa agent, it can be done in minutes with nothing more than a spare Linux machine.

The network is the metaphorical plumbing through which all your precious non-metaphorical observability and monitoring data flows. It holds secrets you’ll never find anywhere else. And it’s more important today than ever before.

NANOG 91 gathered network professionals to discuss emerging trends and challenges in networking. The event featured keynotes and technical sessions focused on critical areas such as cloud-induced network complexities, the advent of network digital twins, IPv6 deployment, network automation, and BGP routing security. In this post, Justin Ryburn, Field CTO, summarizes his takeaways from the event.

At Kentik, our 12-week Engineering Intern Program gives aspiring tech talent hands-on experience, working on real projects with guidance from dedicated mentors. Beginning with an exciting in-person kickoff and transitioning into a remote program, interns build skills that shape future careers.

Multi-cloud visibility is a challenge for most IT teams. It requires diverse telemetry and robust network observability to see your application traffic over networks you own, and networks you don’t. Kentik unifies telemetry from multiple cloud providers and the public internet into one place to give IT teams the ability to monitor and troubleshoot application performance across AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle clouds, along with the public internet, for real-time and historical data analysis.