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"The product has good architecture, concepts, and diagrams to protect end customers. Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and pattern creation are its most valuable features. The tool's alerting systems protect critical infrastructure."

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"We're also using Kentik to ingest metrics. It's a useful feature, and its response time, whenever we're pulling back the data, is higher than our on-prem solution.""I really love the Data Explorer. I use it all the time to go in and craft exactly what I need to see. I'm able to then take that story and explain it to the executives. I've done that a couple of times and it is helpful.""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.""The most valuable features have been anything around traffic engineering: being able to determine the source or destination of a surge of traffic, whether it's DDoS-related, or a customer just happened to have a sudden uptick in traffic. Being able to tell where that's coming from or where it's going to enables us to do things based on that.""The drill-down into detailed views of network activity helps to quickly pinpoint locations and causes. All the information is there.""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.""The most valuable feature is being able to pull traffic patterns; to and from destinations. We're able to understand where our traffic is going, our top talkers from an AS set, as well as where our traffic's coming from.""In terms of the solution’s real-time visibility across our network infrastructure, I have not been able to find any other monitoring or netflow visualization tool that gives me the kind of information I get from Kentik. If I need to take a deep-dive into something that I see, it's really easy for me to do that. Whereas with most other things, I have to use five or six other tools to get that kind of data, with Kentik, I have it all in one place."

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Cons
"The tool's GUI and Java-based management platform needs improvement."

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"I consider the pricing model as an area for improvement.""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.""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.""I would like to see them explore the area of cost analysis.""The only downside to Kentik, something that I don't like, is that it's great that it shows you where these anomalies lie, but it's not actionable. Kentik is valuable, don't get me wrong, but if it had an actionable piece to it...""There is room for improvement around the usability of the API. It's a hugely complex task to call it and you need a lot of backing to be able to do it. I should say, as someone who's not in networking, maybe it's easier for people who are in networking, but for me that one part is not very user-friendly.""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.""They're moving more in a direction where they are saying, "Hey, here's information that you may be interested in or may a need," before the question has to explicitly be asked. Continuing to move in that direction would be a good thing."

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  • "I rate Allot DDoS Secure's pricing a five out of ten."
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  • "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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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product has good architecture, concepts, and diagrams to protect end customers. Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and pattern creation are its most valuable features. The tool's alerting… more »
    Top Answer:I rate Allot DDoS Secure's pricing a five out of ten.
    Top Answer:The tool's GUI and Java-based management platform needs improvement.
    Top Answer: It offers a simple yet powerful feature of classifying applications, going beyond basic statistics.
    Top Answer:Hey Julia Navigating Kentik's pricing can be a bit like wandering through a maze blindfolded, but don't worry. My experience with Kentik has taught me a few tricks. First off, the pricing model… more »
    Top Answer:Customers usually need more information to effectively use this solution. So, simplifying it could be an area of improvement. Moreover, I consider the pricing model as an area for improvement. The… more »
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    Overview

    Allot DDoS Secure is your first line of defense against both inbound and outbound attacks. It surgically mitigates volumetric DDoS attacks and isolates infected hosts, before either can impact your service and business.

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

    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.

    Sample Customers
    TIER-1 Cable, Swiftel Networks, Bristol Virginia
    Pandora, Yelp, Neustar, Box, University of Washington, Zoom, Tata, and Cogent. 
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    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider38%
    University13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Music Company13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company25%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise75%
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    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise61%
    Buyer's Guide
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    March 2024
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    Allot DDoS Secure is ranked 22nd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 1 review while Kentik is ranked 21st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 12 reviews. Allot DDoS Secure is rated 8.0, while Kentik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Allot DDoS Secure writes "Protects critical infrastructure from alerts but GUI needs improvement ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kentik writes " Flexibility for creating reports and gaining more visibility is a definite strength". Allot DDoS Secure is most compared with Radware DefensePro, whereas Kentik is most compared with ThousandEyes, Arbor DDoS, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, SolarWinds NPM and Datadog.

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