Kentik Reviews

Name: Kentik
Brand: Kentik
Rating: 5 (12 reviews)

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Kentik's AIOps Network Traffic Intelligence platform unifies network operations, performance, security, and business intelligence.

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Kentik is the #22 ranked solution in top Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions and #47 ranked solution in best Network Monitoring Tools. PeerSpot users give Kentik an average rating of 9.2 out of 10. Kentik is most commonly compared to Datadog: Kentik vs Datadog. Kentik is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 62% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 24% of all views.

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Satoshi Miura

Marketing Manager at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 17, 2023

Kentik is used to visualize Internet connectivity, particularly for network connections. It's an "as-a-service" solution. We have clients such as NTT and KDD, major telecom providers in Japan I believe the company is satisfied with the product, but there have been some changes and challenges.…

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PeterCarlsten

Interconnection Manager at a music company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 12, 2019

They've added a lot of features in the beta product that is coming out, things we told them about before. We asked for a way, regarding the potential networks that exist, to hook Kentik up with external tools like peering DBs to correlate things together and see what we can do. They've been working on a cost calculator, which would be great for us, so we don't have to do it ourselves. This is all in the beta now. Those have been my main issues so far, and since we're not a super-large, global internet service provider, we probably use 20 percent of all the features, or even less. So there aren't any major issues that annoy me on a day-to-day basis. We're extremely happy and it seems like they're listening to whatever feedback we have given in the past.

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reviewer1194984

Director, Backbone Engineering at Salesforce

Sep 25, 2019

I've checked out the V4 version of the interface and it's still a little bit clunky for me to use. I still go back to the old interface. That's definitely one that they still need to work on. It doesn't seem like everything that you get in the V3, the older interface, is there. For instance, I was trying to add a user or do the administrative tasks in V4, and I couldn't figure out where I was supposed to do that. The interface just wasn't working for me so I went back to V3 to do that stuff. Also, with the alerting page, that traffic overview page, sometimes I really want to share it with someone. Usually, you can get a quick URL on most of the other pages to share that particular view, but I can't do that on the traffic overview page that is given to me from an alert. That would be really helpful.

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Kentik market share

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As of March 2024, the market share of Kentik in the Network Monitoring Software category stands at 0.8%, marking an increase of 24.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"It offers a simple yet powerful feature of classifying applications, going beyond basic statistics."
"One of the valuable features is the intuitive nature of building out reports, and then triggering actions based on specific metrics from those reports. It has a really good UI and the ability to surface data through the reporting functions is pretty good. That's helped a lot in the security space."
"We're pretty happy with the API functionality. It's web, and it's very simple to set up queries. It has served us well and you don't need to be an expert on the API or the product to set these things up."

Room for Improvement

"I consider the pricing model as an area for improvement."
"I believe they're already working on this, but I would love for them to create better integrations from network flow data to application performance — tracing — so that we could overlay that data more readily. With more companies going hybrid, flow logs and flow data, whether it be VPC or on-prem, matched with application performance and trace data, is pretty important."
"We asked for a way, regarding the potential networks that exist, to hook Kentik up with external tools like peering DBs to correlate things together and see what we can do... This is all in the [next] beta now."

Pricing

The product may require a significant financial investment as it can be costly for customers.

"We have an annual contract with Kentik that we renew each year for a set number of licenses. We also have some burstable licenses which we can spin up and spin down, and those are paid as they are used."

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With a purpose-built big data engine delivered as public or private SaaS, Kentik captures a high-resolution view of actual network traffic data and enriches it with critical application and business data, so every network event or analysis can be tied to revenue & costs, customer & user experience, performance & risk.