Kentik

Great observability platform

Kommentare: This is our main platform for network traffic analysis.It helps a lot with capacity planning and management, as well as with security aspects.

Vorteile:

Saas service means very good scalability for bigger networks.Flow data being enriched by other types of data makes it easy to extract value from the platform.Many built in dashboards but also very easy to build your own.

Nachteile:

ddos filters could be optimized to be more multi dimensional

The Best Network tool in Market

Vorteile:

Kentik is a complete solution for all business that delivery digital information. It covers all segments, either if it is on premisis ou cloud. It is very easy and fast of implementation cycle (so you can be confident that everything will be operational in a very short period).It can replace diferent platforms in a single solution that touch differents areas of the company (operations, delivery, engineering and administrative)

Nachteile:

There is not much Cons to say. I would consider some others ways to store locally overall data of strategic providers over time.

Kentik for Managed Service Providers

Kommentare: Initially, it was a good fit as a predominantly 'in-house' tool. As we have exposed this data to customers, and used it more, we have found that the shell looks really good but the inner workings are suspect. Also, its rather pricy for the value it brings. We had high hopes for My.Kentik but those have failed to materialize.

Vorteile:

Like most SaaS consumption models, your deployment is extremely easy. Setting up dashboards is rather intuitive (for engineers) and the filtering capability is really good.

Nachteile:

For a SaaS company, their updates have broken core functionality. In short, I would say their regression testing is lacking. The My.Kentik Portal is a beta product. The entire premise is to expose the dashboards and panels you create to your customers or other business units/non-technical staff. In reality, this is just another window, that does restrict user access (thank you), but its still the same clunky UI that works well for technical people but not customers. Additionally, it is mired with the same bugs as the standard UI and more. Most of the errors are around their timeline but there are other errors that cause major concern like data inconsistencies.

Kentik - A software with a excellent set of tools

Vorteile:

The easy of deployment and use. The hability to create alerts based on traffic, the synthetics monitoring is a feature that I din't knew that I needed and now I can't live without it. Also, the DDoS section of the software is quite complete.

Nachteile:

The price ! Depending on what you need the software can be a little expensive and is a pay to use. You can't purchase and use forever.

Kentik must have if you try to be proactive

Kommentare: First when we turned up kentik for our DDoS offering I needed to send API calls to more than one destination as we have multiple Scrubbing Centers. I wanted both Scrubbing Centers to work in Active/Active mode. Kentik at the time did not provide that option and we would have to maintain 2 policy's for each Scrubbing Center. This is an administrative nightmare but Kentik's response to my problem was to give them a week to make this happen. I was stunned on how fast they were able to turn this around

Vorteile:

Kentik approached me about their netflow extremely fast query capabilities. I just brushed my shoulders because I didn't think there was any problems with my in-house netflow server. When I agreed to test out their product I was extremely shocked that any query I ran was single digit seconds vs 30-50minutes that I was used to.Setting up trigger alerts is fairly simple and you get countless of options on your alert mechanism. This is CRITICAL to TierPoint to be quick AND accurate because it triggers an API call to our DDoS Scrubbing Centers to take the bad traffic away from our Data Centers and re-route them to our Scrubbing Centers to save our backbone from DDoS Attacks

Nachteile:

Netflow and SNMP data is preferred to go to Kentik direct over the Internet. I truly don't like to have my SNMP features enabled on the outside network so they have a kProxy product that sits on your inside network to collect the data. At first kProxy was challenging to get going but it came a long way and it's been SOLID for more than a year now. This is not a Con anymore but this is all I can think of.