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Why modern network teams choose Kentik vs LiveAction

	Kentik: Modern Network Intelligence Platform	LiveAction / LiveNX (BlueCat): Deployed Enterprise Observability
Architecture and delivery	Delivered as native SaaS. Teams deploy lightweight collectors and agents—there are no monitoring servers or capture appliances to operate.	Deployed as software and appliances—including LiveWire packet-capture appliances—across on-prem, virtual, and cloud, giving deep control and forensic depth that the customer runs and scales.
Cloud and multicloud	Built around cloud telemetry—ingests VPC/VNet flow logs, maps cloud connectivity paths, and ties traffic to cloud cost across AWS, Azure, and GCP.	Supports hybrid and multicloud as part of a unified enterprise network view, oriented around the network overlay rather than native cloud flow-log analytics.
Flow analytics	Enriches unsampled, line-rate flow with BGP, geo, cloud metadata, and business tags, with a fast query engine and Sankey visualizations spanning the network and the public internet.	Strong integrated flow with packet-level analysis and real-time playback, deepest within the enterprise network.
Metrics collection	Collects both traditional SNMP metrics and modern gNMI streaming telemetry, normalized and queryable in one place.	Provides device-level monitoring (Network Resource Monitoring) and SNMP across multi-vendor environments.
AI/ML capabilities	AI Advisor, Cause Analysis, and Query Assistant run multi-step, natural language investigations across flow, cloud, synthetics, and routing—spanning the network, the cloud, and the internet.	BlueCat LiveAssist offers a natural language assistant with guided root-cause steps, focused on the enterprise network.
Service-provider workflows	Purpose-built workflows for peering, transit, CDN/OTT analytics, BGP route monitoring, and DDoS detection at internet scale.	LiveSP delivers multi-tenant NPM and customizable reporting for service providers.
Speed and scalability	An elastic SaaS data engine scales by ingesting more telemetry, with fast query performance regardless of data volume.	Scales by adding appliances, probes, and server capacity; packet-capture coverage scales with hardware.
Deployment and maintenance	Fully-managed SaaS—no servers, databases, probes, or upgrade cycles for the customer to run.	Customer-managed servers, probes, and capture appliances. Upgrades, sizing, and redundancy are the customer’s responsibility.

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