What's New at Kentik, Episode 10
Welcome to the October edition of **"What's New at Kentik"**! Join host Leon Adato as he navigates through the latest updates and happenings at Kentik—with a dash of humor and a sprinkle of sarcasm.
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Kentik Bytes: Data Explorer for Cloud Engineers
In this latest Kentik Bytes, we explore how Kentik Data Explorer empowers cloud engineers to gain visibility across distributed, multi-cloud environments. With the ability to query and analyze vast amounts of telemetry from AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and on-premises environments, Kentik simplifies troubleshooting and cost optimization. We walk through how to filter data, use custom dimensions, and compare historical data to get deeper insights, all in one platform.
Hurricane Helene Devastates Network Connectivity in Parts of the South
In this post, we dig into the impacts from Hurricane Helene which came ashore late last month wreaking destruction and severe flooding in the Southeastern United States. Using Kentik’s traffic data as well as Georgia Tech’s IODA, we detail the impacts in three of the hardest-hit states: Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.
Unleashing the Power of Kentik Data Explorer for Cloud Engineers
Kentik Data Explorer is a powerful tool designed for engineers managing complex environments. It provides comprehensive visibility across various cloud platforms by ingesting and enriching telemetry data from sources like AWS, GCP, and Azure, and with the ability to explore data through granular filters and dimensions, engineers can quickly analyze cloud performance, detect security threats, and control costs in real-time exploration and historically.
Unlocking Network Insights: Bringing Context to Cloud Visibility
In today’s complex cloud environments, traditional network visibility tools fail to provide the necessary context to understand and troubleshoot application performance issues. In this post, we delve into how network observability bridges this gap by combining diverse telemetry data and enriching it with contextual information.
What's New at Kentik, Episode 9
We’re running down the latest developments, releases, and features in the latest What’s New at Kentik. This episode features improvements in report processing, enhanced report features, and updated Synthetics alerting to transform data into actionable insights. Remember to like and subscribe for more Kentik product updates each month!
Optimizing Cloud Networks: The Strategic Approach to Eliminating Suboptimal Routing
In this post, we look at optimizing cloud network routing to avoid suboptimal paths that increase latency, round-trip times, or costs. To mitigate this, we can adjust routing policies, strategically distributing resources, AWS Direct Connects, and by leveraging observability tools to monitor performance and costs, enabling informed decisions that balance performance with budget.
Understanding Traffic Blockages in AWS
In AWS, even a tiny misconfiguration in security groups or routing tables can lead to significant traffic blockages. Watch this short demo highlighting how Kentik can diagnose these issues and use enriched flow data and contextual analysis to find the root cause of traffic blockages.
Kentik (Observabilium) Daily
Are performance-impacting hybrid and multi-cloud issues affecting your business’ happiness? Introducing Kentik (Observabilium) Daily, a revolutionary new full-featured solution to your organization’s cloud network observability needs.
Understanding Network Traffic Blockages in AWS
In this post, explore the challenges of diagnosing network traffic blockages in AWS due to the complex and dynamic nature of cloud networks. Learn how Kentik addresses these issues by integrating AWS flow data, metrics, and security policies into a single view, allowing engineers to quickly identify the source of blockages enhancing visibility and speeding up the resolution process.