Kentik Reviews

Kentik is a network observability company founded in 2014 as CloudHelix by Avi Freedman, Ian Applegate, Ian Pye, and Justin Biegel, rebranding to Kentik in 2015. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Kentik provides a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platform called the Kentik Network Observability Cloud. This platform ingests, analyzes, and visualizes vast amounts of network data, including NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, BGP routing information, cloud flow logs (AWS, Azure, GCP), performance metrics, and synthetic monitoring data. Kentik's core technology is built on a powerful, scalable data engine designed to handle the complexities and scale of modern networks, including data centers, cloud environments, hybrid infrastructures, and the internet edge. The platform is targeted towards network professionals, including engineers, operators, and architects within enterprises, service providers, and digital businesses. Key use cases include network performance monitoring, troubleshooting, capacity planning, DDoS detection and mitigation, cloud cost optimization, peering analysis, and security forensics. Kentik differentiates itself through its ability to provide real-time, granular insights powered by AIOps, enabling users to quickly plan, run, and fix network issues, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and security for their business-critical applications and services.