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"The user interface was recently changed in one of the latest versions, but we find it to be very good. The change was an improvement.""Most competitor's environments will have their appliance do a hard stop. This means they weigh traffic from real customers and that affects the overall business experience. F5, on the other hand, uses contextual information to be able to specify what is malicious traffic and what is real traffic. That comes from its pool of intelligence, and from its threat intelligence team."

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"The drill-down into detailed views of network activity helps to quickly pinpoint locations and causes. All the information is there.""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.""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.""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.""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.""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.""I am able to do a lot of work on the visualization end to create different visualizations and different ways to get information out of it.""It offers a simple yet powerful feature of classifying applications, going beyond basic statistics."

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"The solution needs better stability when it's utilized with virtual solutions.""We've seen the rise of smaller entities, and their requirements grow by the day. Having the ability to give them appliances that fit their needs in terms of that small or medium-sized segment and the pricing they can handle would be something that's great to see."

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"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.""I would like to see them explore the area of cost analysis.""I consider the pricing model as an area for improvement.""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.""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.""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.""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...""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."

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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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    Top Answer: It offers a simple yet powerful feature of classifying applications, going beyond basic statistics.
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    Overview

    At F5, we give our customers the freedom to securely deliver every app, anywhere—with confidence. All F5 products are highly programmable and integrate into any environment, whether on premises or in any cloud. To date, 48 of the Fortune 50 companies rely on F5 to deliver apps that customers and employees can securely access at any time, on any device, from any location.

    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.

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    City Bank, Ricacorp Properties, Miele, American Systems, Bangladesh Post Office
    Pandora, Yelp, Neustar, Box, University of Washington, Zoom, Tata, and Cogent. 
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    Comms Service Provider38%
    University13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Music Company13%
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    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%
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    F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender (EOL) doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection while Kentik is ranked 21st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 12 reviews. F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender (EOL) is rated 8.0, while Kentik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender (EOL) writes "Excellent DDoS protection with responsive technical support and a straightforward setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kentik writes " Flexibility for creating reports and gaining more visibility is a definite strength". F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender (EOL) is most compared with , whereas Kentik is most compared with ThousandEyes, Arbor DDoS, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, SolarWinds NPM and Datadog.

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