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2026 29

  1. Latest BGP Hijack Targets Hosting Software Vendor
  2. New Alert Policy Templates for Kentik Protect: Security and Compliance Visibility in Minutes
  3. Welcoming Kentik: Closing the Gap with Network Truth, Opening the Door to Agentic Operations
  4. Introducing AI Platform Traffic Visibility in Kentik
  5. China Rolls out the ROAs
  6. Kentik Is Joining Infoblox
  7. What the World Cup Looks Like in Internet Traffic
  8. Syrian Subsea Cable Link Downed in Latest Act of Telecom Sabotage
  9. Tapirs, Trainings, and Team Dinners: My First Kentik Meetup
  10. When Local Blocks Go Global: The India-Telegram BGP Incident
  11. Shifting Streams and AI Surges: What Our Data Reveals About the OTT Landscape
  12. The “Single Pane of Glass” Is Dead — What Network Teams Actually Need Is Intelligence
  13. Your AI Strategy Has a Blind Spot: The Network
  14. Accelerating MTTR with Faster Root Cause Diagnosis: AI Advisor Now Supports On-Demand Connectivity, Config Context, and Device Diagnostics
  15. The Best Seat in the House: How We Work at Kentik
  16. Setting the Bar for Agentic NetOps
  17. Iran’s Internet Blackout: Peering Into the World’s Worst Internet Shutdown
  18. Ephemeral Leaks and Automated BGP Route Leak Detection
  19. What’s New at Kentik: Platform Updates for April 2026
  20. Internet and Airstrikes: Tracking Iran's Extended Communication Blackout
  21. Why the New Normal in Cyberattacks Demands Network Intelligence
  22. Employee Spotlight: Celebrating 10 Years with Courtney Boisseree
  23. 7 Real Ways to Modernize NetOps with Kentik AI Advisor
  24. Agentic NetOps: How to beat the cloud monsters at their own game
  25. The Power of Giving: Kentik Cares 2025 Impact
  26. From Ukraine to the Cloud: Stories of IPv4 Migration
  27. AI Is Bigger Than LLMs: Why Network Teams Need to Think Beyond Chatbots and Agents
  28. From Stealth Blackout to Whitelisting: Inside the Iranian Shutdown
  29. Context is King: Why Network AI Needs Domain Knowledge to Work

2025 60

  1. A Year in Internet Analysis: 2025
  2. AI Advisor: Automating Network Troubleshooting with AI Runbooks
  3. Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video
  4. AI for Good: Securing Networks in the Age of Autonomous Attacks
  5. Introducing Kentik AI Advisor: The Future of Network Intelligence
  6. From Observability to Network Intelligence: How Kentik Built the Foundation for Networks That Think
  7. Walktober Wrap-Up: From Quick Strolls to Bucket-List Hikes
  8. Redefining NetOps: Agent Systems and Practical AI from the ONUG AI in Networking Summit
  9. How to Escape Legacy Monitoring (and Thrive in the Era of AI Networks)
  10. Closing Visibility Gaps in the Modern Data Center
  11. A Network Crumb Back Story: A Baker’s Dozen Retrospective
  12. Afghanistan Downs Internet to “Prevent Immorality”
  13. How to Boost Revenue and Cut Network Spending with Kentik Traffic Costs
  14. Beyond Automation: The Rise of Agentic Networks
  15. Bridging the Network Cost Gap: Why Operators Need Real-Time, Traffic-Based Cost Intelligence
  16. Subsea Cables Parted in Red Sea Again
  17. The Critical Role of Networks in AI Data Centers
  18. Introducing Kentik Traffic Costs: Real-Time Network Cost Intelligence
  19. 2025 Engineering Intern Program at Kentik
  20. Why (Enriched) Flow Data Belongs in Every Network Operator’s Daily Toolbox
  21. The Starlink Outage and Its Impact on Community Gateways
  22. Data Center VXLAN Overlay Visibility at Scale
  23. Cloudflare's DNS Downtime: Why BGP Hijacks Were Never to Blame
  24. The Network Impact on Job Completion Time in AI Model Training
  25. Taking AI Apps From Prototype to Production
  26. Real-Time Alerting for AI-Optimized Data Centers
  27. Elephant Flows: The Hidden Heavyweights of AI Data Center Networks
  28. Celebrating Pride Month by Giving Back: Supporting Zebra Youth in Orlando
  29. An Unforgettable First Week: Attending Write the Docs with Kentik
  30. Introducing Cause Analysis: Instant Triage for Traffic Changes with Kentik AI
  31. Beyond Observability: Why Network Intelligence Will Make Traditional Network Management Obsolete
  32. AutoCon3: Network Automation’s Premier Conference
  33. The Visibility Gap: Bridging Flow and Metrics
  34. Celebrating Excellence: Aaron Kagawa and Justin Guerra Receive Founders' Awards
  35. Identifying Idle Paths in a Data Center Leaf-Spine Fabric
  36. Exodus of IPv4 from War-torn Ukraine
  37. Turning Network Telemetry into Network Intelligence
  38. Kentik Brings Network Intelligence to ServiceNow
  39. Lunes Sin Luz: Spain and Portugal’s Historic Outage
  40. Level Up: The Kentik 2025 Offsite
  41. Beyond the Buzz: Building Real Business Intelligence with AI
  42. The Scourge of Excessive AS-SETs
  43. The Hidden Cost of DIY AI in Network Operations
  44. AI That Matters: Driving Real Outcomes in Network Operations
  45. Cloud Pathfinder: A Key to Cloud Network Intelligence
  46. Beyond Their Intended Scope: DDoS Mitigation Leak
  47. Announcing Cloud Pathfinder: Network GPS for Infrastructure Teams
  48. Starlink Enters Transit Market With Community Gateways
  49. North Korea Downed by Faulty ROA
  50. Optimizing AWS NAT Gateway Usage
  51. Breaking Free from Legacy Observability: Why Service Providers Choose Kentik Over Deepfield
  52. CLM Chowder: Digging Into the Cloud Latency of Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI
  53. NANOG 93 in Atlanta: From Automation to AI
  54. Beyond Their Intended Scope: BGP Goof-UPX
  55. Evaluating Cloud Gateways for Cost and Performance
  56. Celebrating a Year of Impact: Kentik Cares Giving Program
  57. Data-Driven AI: The Key to Network Observability
  58. TikTok Emerges from Shutdown Without Bytedance’s US CDN
  59. Democratizing Access to Network Telemetry with Kentik Journeys
  60. Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: Netflix Rumbles Into Wrestling

2024 76

  1. AWS re:Invent 2024: A Week of Innovation and Excitement
  2. Comparing Azure NSG and VNet Flow Logs
  3. Observer Bias: A Look Back at 2024
  4. A Year in Analysis: 2024
  5. AutoCon2: The Network of the Future is Automated
  6. Get Growing at Kentik: Matt Cavanaugh
  7. Faster Network Troubleshooting with Kentik AI
  8. Understanding the Differences Between Flow Logs on AWS and Azure
  9. Troubleshooting Cloud Traffic Inefficiencies with Kentik AI
  10. Introducing the Kentik Network Jamz Mixtape
  11. Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: The Tyson-Paul Fight on Netflix
  12. Unlocking Peak Performance with Kentik’s Azure Network Observability Tools
  13. What’s New with Kentik AI: Enhanced Journeys for Cloud Observability, DDoS, Peering, and Faster Network Insights
  14. Kentik Named a Value Leader in EMA’s 2024 Radar Report for Network Operations Observability
  15. Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: The Fortnite Chapter 2 Remix Update
  16. NANOG 92 in Toronto: A Focus on IPv6
  17. The Cloud Conundrum: Optimizing Without Compromise
  18. Announcing the Cloud Latency Map
  19. Beyond Their Intended Scope: Uzing into Russia
  20. Hurricane Helene Devastates Network Connectivity in Parts of the South
  21. Unleashing the Power of Kentik Data Explorer for Cloud Engineers
  22. Why I Joined the Kentik Team
  23. Unlocking Network Insights: Bringing Context to Cloud Visibility
  24. Optimizing Cloud Networks: The Strategic Approach to Eliminating Suboptimal Routing
  25. Meet Our Kentik Pets!
  26. Understanding Network Traffic Blockages in AWS
  27. Afghanistan Internet Presses On, Three Years After US Departure
  28. Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: Microsoft Patch Tuesday
  29. Understanding and Controlling AWS Transit Gateway Costs with Kentik
  30. Understanding the Deficiencies of AWS CloudWatch for Cloud Visibility
  31. Infrastructure Modernization Means a Multi-cloud Future
  32. Calm Down, Cloud's Not THAT Different!
  33. How Kentik Lowers Cloud Costs
  34. Dissecting the FCC’s Proposal to Improve BGP Security
  35. Demystifying Internet Measurement: A Profile of Doug Madory
  36. Exploring NetFlow with Kentik: A Simple Explainer
  37. Network Observability: Beyond Metrics and Logs
  38. NANOG 91: A Look into the Latest Trends in Networking
  39. Engineering Intern Program at Kentik
  40. Simplifying Multi-cloud Visibility
  41. What Do Network Teams (Really) Care About in 2024?
  42. Escaping Cloud Jail
  43. Time’s Up! How RPKI ROAs Perpetually Are About to Expire 🙀
  44. The Importance of Hybrid Cloud Visibility
  45. Driving Network Automation Innovation: Kentik and Red Hat Launch Integration
  46. East Africa Struck by More Submarine Cable Woes
  47. Building Resilience: Modern Business Networks Need SaaS Monitoring
  48. NMS Migration Made Easy: Lessons Learned
  49. BGP Flowspec Doesn't Suck. We're Just Using it Wrong.
  50. NMS Migration Made Easy: Moving Foward with Kentik NMS
  51. RPKI ROV Deployment Reaches Major Milestone
  52. Navigating the Complexities of Hybrid and Multi-cloud Environments
  53. NMS Migration Made Easy: Get Stakeholders Aligned
  54. NMS Migration Made Easy: Gathering Information
  55. The Future of Cloud is AI: Google Cloud Next 2024
  56. The (Mostly) Complete Guide to Installing Kentik NMS
  57. Adjusting Data Before Sending It to Kentik NMS
  58. What Caused the Red Sea Submarine Cable Cuts?
  59. Transforming Human Interaction with Data Using Large Language Models and Generative AI
  60. Adding Multiple Custom Metrics to Kentik NMS
  61. Using Kentik NMS to Identify Network Outages
  62. How to Configure Kentik NMS to Collect Custom SNMP Metrics
  63. Using Telegraf to Feed API JSON Data into Kentik NMS
  64. How Hard Is It to Migrate to Streaming Telemetry?
  65. Closing the Interconnection Data Gap: Integrating PeeringDB into Kentik Data Explorer
  66. Getting Started with Kentik NMS
  67. Understanding DDoS Attacks: Motivation and Impact
  68. Using Kentik Journeys for Network Troubleshooting
  69. Setting Sail with Kentik NMS: Unified Network Telemetry
  70. Reinventing Network Monitoring and Observability with Kentik AI
  71. The Cloudification of Telcos and the Evolution of the Telecom Ecosystem
  72. Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: Peacock Delivers First Exclusively Streamed NFL Playoff Game
  73. The Benefits and Drawbacks of SNMP and Streaming Telemetry
  74. Kentik Pets: Making Fully Remote Work a Paw-some Experience
  75. Digging into the Orange España Hack
  76. Kentik Announces Year-Round Charitable Giving Program: Kentik Cares!

2023 86

  1. December 2023: What’s New at Kentik?
  2. A Year in Internet Analysis: 2023
  3. The Power of Paris Traceroute for Modern Load-Balanced Networks
  4. AWS re:Invent re:Cap
  5. Kentik Expands Hybrid Cloud Observability with OCI Support
  6. How to Analyze Subscriber Behavior with Kentik
  7. Nov 2023: What’s New at Kentik?
  8. What’s Stopping the Adoption of Network Automation?
  9. Cloud Observer: Subsea Cable Maintenance Impacts Cloud Connectivity
  10. Kubecon 2023: Code, Culture, Community, and Kubernetes
  11. Alerts Should Work for You, Not the Other Way Around
  12. Digging into the Optus Outage
  13. Analyzing the Traffic Patterns of Broadband Subscriber Behavior
  14. The Driving Force of Community at All Things Open 2023
  15. Visibly Kentik
  16. How to Harden Zero-Trust Cloud Network Policy with Kentik
  17. What Is Adaptive Flowspec and Does It Solve the DDoS Problem?
  18. Why Can’t Network Teams Have Nice Things?
  19. Ending Saint Helena’s Exile from the Internet
  20. AWS Performance Monitoring with Kentik
  21. State of the Internet: Monitoring SaaS Application Performance
  22. The Evolution of Data Center Networking for AI Workloads
  23. Cloud Cost Optimization Best Practices
  24. Using Kentik to Fight DDoS at the Source
  25. Box and Kentik: A Google Cloud Migration Success Story
  26. Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: NFL Kickoff on Peacock
  27. A Tale of Two BGP Leaks
  28. Beyond the Hype: The Power of AI and Large Language Models in Networking
  29. How to Use Kentik to Perform a Forensic Analysis After a Security Breach
  30. Dual Subsea Cable Cuts Disrupt African Internet
  31. Iraq Blocks Telegram, Leaks Blackhole BGP Routes
  32. Troubleshooting Cloud Application Performance: A Guide to Effective Cloud Monitoring
  33. SD-WAN Best Practices
  34. Website Performance and Transaction Monitoring with Kentik
  35. Troubleshooting a SaaS Performance Problem with Kentik
  36. How Kentik Helps You Mitigate Cyberattacks Faster
  37. $3 Million in Savings and Improved Performance: A Case Study Featuring StackPath
  38. How Kentik Reduces the Likelihood of a Full-blown Cyberattack Before It Happens
  39. Announcing Complete Azure Observability for Kentik Cloud
  40. Where No (Enterprise) WAN Has Gone Before
  41. No, You Haven’t Missed the Streaming Telemetry Bandwagon - Part 1
  42. API Monitoring with Kentik
  43. Multi-Cloud Made Simple: Announcing Kentik Observability Enhancements for AWS and Google Cloud
  44. A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents
  45. When Reliability Goes Wrong in Cloud Networks
  46. Automating Capacity Planning for IP Networks: A Journey into the Future
  47. Understanding MTTR Networking: How to Improve Incident Response Time
  48. The Subtle Details of Livestreaming Prime Video with Embedded CDNs
  49. Exploring the Latest RPKI ROV Adoption Numbers
  50. Making Peering Easy: Announcing the Integration of PeeringDB and Kentik
  51. Mind Your MANRS: A Safer Internet Through Secure Global Routing
  52. Network Operator Confidential: Diving Into Our Latest Webinars on DDoS Trends, RPKI Adoption, and Market Intel for Service Providers
  53. A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing VPC Flow Logs to an S3 Bucket
  54. Modernizing Network Data Analytics With a Unified Data Repository
  55. Resilience vs Redundancy in Networking: Exploring Key Comparisons
  56. Why Your Data-Driven Strategies for Network Reliability Aren’t Working
  57. Unlocking the Power of Embedded CDNs: A Comprehensive Guide to Deployment Scenarios and Optimal Use Cases
  58. Data-Driven Defense: Exploring Global Cybersecurity and the Human Factor
  59. NetOps for Application Developers: Understanding the Importance of Network Operations in Modern Development
  60. DataOps Uncovered: A Bold New Approach to Telemetry and Network Visibility
  61. Ukraine’s Wartime Internet from the Inside
  62. Speeding Up the Web: A Comprehensive Guide to Content Delivery Networks and Embedded Caching
  63. Practical Steps for Enhancing Reliability in Cloud Networks - Part I
  64. eBPF Explained: Why it's Important for Observability
  65. Reinforcing Networks: Advancing Resiliency and Redundancy Techniques
  66. Diving Deep into Submarine Cables: The Undersea Lifelines of Internet Connectivity
  67. What Does It Mean To Build a Successful Networking Team?
  68. Securing Your Network Against Attacks: Prevent, Detect, and Mitigate Cyberthreats
  69. Today’s Enterprise WAN Isn’t What It Used To Be
  70. Using Device Telemetry to Answer Questions About Your Network Health
  71. Data Gravity in Cloud Networks: Distributed Gravity and Network Observability
  72. Exploring Your Network Data With Kentik Data Explorer
  73. The Russification of Ukrainian IP Registration
  74. Implementing a Cost-aware Cloud Networking Infrastructure
  75. The Consolidation of Networking Tasks in Engineering
  76. Understanding Data-platform Needs to Support Network Observability
  77. Gathering, Understanding, and Using Traffic Telemetry for Network Observability
  78. Data Gravity in Cloud Networks: Achieving Escape Velocity
  79. Digging Into the Recent Azure Outage
  80. Best Practices for Enriching Network Telemetry to Support Network Observability
  81. Understanding the Advantages of Flow Sampling: Maximizing Efficiency without Breaking the Bank
  82. Cuba and the Geopolitics of Submarine Cables
  83. Data Gravity in Cloud Networks: Massive Data
  84. New Year, New BGP Leaks
  85. Kubernetes and the Service Mesh Era: Exploring the Role of Kubernetes Service Mesh in Networking
  86. The Reality of Machine Learning in Network Observability

2022 62

  1. A Year in Internet Analysis: 2022
  2. Kubernetes and Cross-cloud Service Meshes
  3. Maximizing Application Performance: How to Extract Practical Data from Your Network
  4. Multi-cloud vs. hybrid cloud networks: What’s the difference?
  5. Peering? ...in this Economy?
  6. Close the Cloud Monitoring Gap with Network Observability
  7. Hidden Costs of Cloud Networking: Optimizing for the Cloud - Part 3
  8. Avoid These Five Cloud Networking Deployment Mistakes
  9. Suppressing Dissent: The Rise of the Internet Curfew
  10. Five Issues Your NetOps Team Will Face in the Cloud
  11. Using Kentik Synthetics for Your Cloud Monitoring Needs
  12. Everything You Need to Know About Synthetic Testing
  13. A Guide to Cloud Monitoring Through Synthetic Testing
  14. Kentik takes network observability to KubeCon 2022
  15. Are you a network observability champion?
  16. Kentik Market Intelligence just increased its IQ — introducing KMI Insights!
  17. Managing the hidden costs of cloud networking - Part 2
  18. Kentik Kube extends network observability to Kubernetes deployments
  19. How Kentik Visualizes the BGP Propagation of a DDoS Mitigation
  20. Flows vs. packet captures for network visibility
  21. Anatomy of an OTT traffic surge: Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video
  22. Webinar recap: A NetOps guide to DDoS defense
  23. What can be learned from recent BGP hijacks targeting cryptocurrency services?
  24. Separating the answers from the data: Networking Field Day 29
  25. 8 reasons why network observability is critical for DDoS detection and mitigation
  26. Managing the hidden costs of cloud networking - Part I
  27. How much does RPKI ROV reduce the propagation of invalid routes?
  28. Understanding AS relationships, outage analysis and more Network Operator Confidential gems
  29. Bringing business context to network analytics
  30. Rerouting of Kherson follows familiar gameplan
  31. Network telemetry in Sumo Logic
  32. A deeper dive into the Rogers outage
  33. Investigating digital experience with Synthetic Transaction Monitoring
  34. Kentik moves up the stack with Synthetic Transaction Monitoring
  35. Cisco Live 2022 recap
  36. Outage in Egypt impacted AWS, GCP and Azure interregional connectivity
  37. Solving slow web applications with the Kentik Page Load test
  38. How New Relic uses Kentik for network observability
  39. How to prepare for a peering-partner business review
  40. Using synthetics to get the big picture
  41. 4 steps to bring network observability into your organization
  42. Measuring RPKI ROV adoption with NetFlow
  43. The evolution of network visibility
  44. Working with Cloudflare to mitigate DDoS attacks
  45. Network AF, Episode 13: Talking networking and PR with Ilissa Miller
  46. Anatomy of an OTT traffic surge: 2022 Men's NCAA Basketball Championship
  47. Synthetics 101 - Part 2: Protecting and growing revenue with proactive monitoring
  48. Network AF, Episode 11: The art of connecting with PacketFabric’s Jezzibell Gilmore
  49. Updated: Cogent and Lumen curtail operations in Russia
  50. The peering coordinators’ toolbox - part 4
  51. Network observability, now publicly shareable
  52. Network AF, Episode 10: Navigating venture capital and networking with Alan Cohen
  53. Introducing BGP Monitoring from Kentik
  54. The peering coordinators’ toolbox - part 3
  55. The peering coordinators’ toolbox - part 2
  56. Network AF, Episode 9: Learning from great mentors and by breaking things with Hank Kilmer
  57. Launching a labor of love, Kentik Market Intelligence
  58. The peering coordinators’ toolbox - part 1
  59. Network capacity planning made easy
  60. Tonga downed by massive undersea volcanic eruption
  61. Network AF, Episode 8: Staying curious with Ron Winward
  62. How to measure the performance of a website

2021 62

  1. Wellness and surfing… with Kentik!
  2. Network AF, Episode 7: From Juilliard to bare metal with Zac Smith
  3. Channel partner spotlight: Sciens
  4. Why is my SaaS application so slow?
  5. Network AF, Episode 6: Cat Gurinsky on mentorship and the shared languages of network engineering
  6. The 10 top network outages of 2021
  7. Synthetics 101 - Part 1: How to drive better business outcomes
  8. Anatomy of an OTT traffic surge: Dune release on HBO Max
  9. Network AF, Episode 5: Building relationships as an internet analyst with Doug Madory
  10. How to determine the source of SaaS latency
  11. Network AF, Episode 4: Untangling business in the ISP industry with Elliot Noss
  12. NPM, encryption, and the challenges ahead: Part 2
  13. Network AF, Episode 3: Uniting networking pros with Salesforce’s Janine Malcolm
  14. NPM, encryption, and the challenges ahead: Part 1 of 2
  15. Network AF, Episode 2: Backbone engineering and interconnection with Nina Bargisen
  16. Facebook’s historic outage, explained
  17. Listen up: The Network AF podcast is here
  18. Anatomy of an OTT traffic surge: Microsoft Patch Tuesday
  19. Why latency is the new outage
  20. Wait, Did AS8003 Just Disappear?
  21. Visibility into the cloud path of application latency
  22. What’s next for the internet in Afghanistan?
  23. Network observability: Hype or reality?
  24. Is it a network or application problem? The answer is here
  25. Announcing Kentik Labs
  26. Channel Partner Spotlight: Edgeworx Solutions Inc.
  27. Network Observability Can Enable Hybrid Multi-Cloud Network Operations
  28. Concerns Grow As AFRINIC’s Funds Are Frozen Over IPv4 Dispute
  29. Hybrid vs. Multi-cloud: The Good, the Bad and the Network Observability Needed
  30. Latency and Packet Loss Monitoring Within the Cloud
  31. Employee Spotlight: Akshay Dhawale - Solutions Engineer
  32. OTT Service Tracking Gets a Major Facelift and Update!
  33. Kentik Engineering: An Introduction
  34. Why You Need to Monitor BGP
  35. Automated, Accurate, Flexible DDoS Detection and Mitigation
  36. Channel Partner Spotlight: TechEnabler
  37. How to Monitor Cloud Traffic Through Transit Gateways
  38. Employee Spotlight: Steven Reynolds - UI Engineer
  39. 5 Things to Know About Monitoring Your Cloud Network
  40. Customer Spotlight: How EdgeUno Delivers Leading Internet Services in LATAM
  41. The Network Also Needs to be Observable, Part 4: Telemetry Data Platform
  42. Unifying Application and Network Observability with New Relic
  43. Why and How to Track Connectivity Costs
  44. Kentik’s Journey to Deliver the First Cloud Network Observability Product
  45. Are Blind Spots in Your Hybrid Cloud Keeping Your Network Pros Up at Night?
  46. The Network Also Needs to be Observable, Part 3: Network Telemetry Types
  47. The Mystery of AS8003
  48. The Network Also Needs to be Observable, Part 2: Network Telemetry Sources
  49. The Network Also Needs to be Observable: Part 1 in a Series on Network Observability
  50. Building and Operating Networks: Assuring What Matters
  51. VPC Flow Logs in AWS: How to Monitor Traffic at the Edge of Your Cloud Network
  52. How to Meet the Need for APM + NPM
  53. How G-Core Labs Uses Kentik Synthetics to See Across All Networks
  54. Troubleshoot and Secure Your Cloud with AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring and Kentik
  55. Cascaded Lag: The Cumulative Impact of Latency on Applications and User Experience
  56. Monitoring vs. Observability: Understanding the Role of Each
  57. Myanmar Goes Offline During Military Coup
  58. The New Normals of Network Operations in the Year Ahead
  59. My Kentik Portal Gets a New Skin!
  60. From Egypt to Uganda, A Decade of Internet Shutdowns
  61. What Is Port Mirroring? SPAN Ports Explained
  62. Basic Network Troubleshooting: A Complete Guide

2020 21

  1. When DNS Fails in the Cloud: DNS Performance and Troubleshooting
  2. Kentik Firehose: The Missing Piece in Full-stack Monitoring
  3. If Your Network Traffic Is Continuous, Why Isn’t Your Synthetic Testing?
  4. Maxing Out Network Content Delivery: Baldur’s Gate 3 Case Study
  5. Kentik Adds Integrated Synthetic Monitoring to Deliver Next-Gen Network Observability
  6. Using Rust for Kentik’s New Synthetic Monitoring Agent
  7. Kentik Bridges the Intelligence Gap for Hybrid Cloud Networks
  8. The New Normals of Network Operations in 2020
  9. Capacity Planning Done Right
  10. Why Network Capacity was Critical for the NFL Draft – And Will Be for Other Sporting Events to Come
  11. Kentik Virtual Panel Series, Part 2: How Akamai, Uber and Verizon Media Are Supporting Remote Work and Digital Experience
  12. The Gartner Market Guide for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics Highlights Network Challenges
  13. A Critical Piece of Your SD-WAN Visibility
  14. Lessons from Google on Converging Network Technologies with SD-WAN
  15. Kentik Virtual Panel Series, Part 1: How Leading Companies Support Remote Work and Digital Experience
  16. UPDATED 3/26/20: Trends in Network Traffic in Correlation with COVID-19
  17. Strategies for Managing Network Traffic from a Remote Workforce
  18. Can I Put Kentik in My Data Center?
  19. The Kentik Platform is the Future of Network Operations
  20. SNMP vs. NetFlow
  21. Kentik for Grafana

2019 34

  1. Scaling BGP Peering in Kentik's SaaS Environment
  2. AIOps Comes of Age in Gartner’s Market Guide for AIOps Platforms
  3. How Superloop Connects APAC to the World with Network Insights from Kentik
  4. Disney+ Launch: What Broadband Providers Need to See
  5. How Packet Uses Kentik to Make Infrastructure a Competitive Advantage
  6. Beignets and Brainstorms: Work Meets Play in the French Quarter
  7. VMworld 2019 Wrap-up: VMware’s Key Focus is Shifting...
  8. The State of Network Automation: Don't Worry... You Aren't Behind
  9. How to Maximize the Value of Streaming Telemetry for Network Monitoring and Analytics
  10. How Zoom Uses Kentik for Network Visibility, Performance, Peering Analytics & Improved Customer Support
  11. Data Enrichment Will Be the New Correlation
  12. The First AIOps Platform for the Network Professional is Here
  13. BGP and RPKI: A Path Made Clear with Kentik
  14. Technical Guide: Using RPKI in Kentik
  15. What You Should Know About the Emerging Network Analytics Landscape
  16. The Network Traffic Analytics that Enterprises Need
  17. Introducing the Industry's First Visibility Solution for Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
  18. Kentik True Origin Brings CDN Insights to ISPs
  19. The Visibility Challenge for Network Overlays
  20. Going Beyond the (Net)Flow: Introducing Universal Data Records
  21. How Race Communications Used Kentik to Stop Mirai Botnet Infection and Abuse
  22. How to Achieve Multi-Cloud Visibility in Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architectures
  23. Network Teams: Keys to Cloud Migration Success
  24. Network Engineering and Operations in the Multi-Cloud Era
  25. Kentik Takes a Leap Forward in DDoS Defense
  26. Kubernetes Networking 101
  27. Viasat Taps Kentik for Real-Time Visibility of Critical Broadband Networks
  28. Cloud Architecture Best Practices
  29. How to Design Self-service Network Analytics into Your Services
  30. A Demo: Pinpointing an Abnormal Traffic Spike in Under 5 Minutes
  31. 6 “Wow!” Moments from Kentik Customers
  32. Report: It's a Multi-cloud, Cost-containment World
  33. Enterprise & Service Provider Trends in Cloud Transformation
  34. Five Cloud Deployment Mistakes That Will Cost You

2018 50

  1. How Pandora Leverages VPC Flow Logs + Kentik for Google Cloud Visibility
  2. How to Build Effective Dashboards: Key Principles and 5 Examples for Cloud Monitoring
  3. Network Visibility for Cloud-Native Architecture
  4. How Kentik Helps Assess AWS Visibility
  5. The Recap: Kentik at Networking Field Day 19
  6. What Are VPC Flow Logs and How Can They Improve Your Cloud?
  7. Under the Hood: How Rust Helps Keep Kentik’s Performance on High
  8. This Halloween, Don’t Get Spooked by Cloud Visibility Myths
  9. Network Insight is Essential for Communications Service Consumers
  10. Kentik Invests in European Market Expansion
  11. Visualizing Traffic Exit Points in Complex Networks
  12. NetFlow vs. sFlow: What’s the Difference?
  13. Empower Your Customers with Self-Service Analytics
  14. The State of Network Management in 2018
  15. Service Assurance Starts with Network Analytics
  16. Kentik for Google Cloud VPC Flow Logs
  17. The Evolving NetFlow Product Landscape
  18. The Launch of Kentik’s First Open Source Project: Mobx Form
  19. Cloud-Scale Visibility Tools: The Right Stuff
  20. Moving from Silos to Synergy
  21. Case Study: How Immedion Maintains Always-On, Secure Data Centers
  22. Network Capacity Planning 101: Requirements & Best Practices
  23. RSA 2018: A Parade Watcher’s View
  24. NetOps & SecOps Collaboration: Shared Tools are Essential
  25. The Impact of 5G on Enterprise Network Monitoring
  26. Machine Learning and AI: The Superhero Solution for IT Operations
  27. PhoenixNAP: How Network Visibility Enhances Security of Multi-Tenant Environments
  28. AWS Route 53 BGP Hijack: What Kentik Saw
  29. DDoS Protection in the Wild Wild West
  30. The Role of Predictive Analytics in Network Performance Monitoring
  31. Hybrid Multi-Cloud and Hyperscale Performance Monitoring: Go Big or Go Home
  32. Preparing for the Hybrid Multi-Cloud Endgame
  33. Kentik Detect for FinServ Networks: Real-World Use Cases
  34. At The Turning Point: FinServ Data Networks
  35. Internet Underlay Visibility is Critical for SD-WAN Overlays
  36. SaaS Applications: No-Brainer or Headache?
  37. The Importance of Network Security & Planning in Educational Institutions
  38. Insight Delivered: The Power of Sankey Diagrams
  39. Massive Scale Visibility Challenges Inside Hyperscale Data Centers
  40. Industry 4.0: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
  41. Finding Bots with Kentik Detect
  42. Recent memcached Attacks: What Kentik Sees
  43. How Limelight Networks Automates Traffic Engineering and Reduces Infrastructure Cost and MTTR
  44. Digital Transformation Starts With Managing Digital Disruption
  45. The Future of DDoS Protection in an IoT World
  46. What’s Driving Advanced Network Analytics Adoption? Instant ROI
  47. Seeing CDN Traffic with Kentik Detect
  48. What Do Poker and Networking Have in Common?
  49. News in Networking: Advanced Analytics for an Oil Company & HCI for an NFL Team
  50. How IoT Drives the Need for Network Management Tools

2017 74

  1. What’s Ahead for Networking in 2018?
  2. Fascinating Facts from Kentik
  3. DIY: The Hidden Risks of Open Source Network Flow Analyzers
  4. News in Networking: Cisco’s Acquisition, Juniper’s Security M&A, and Elon’s AI
  5. Black Friday vs. Cyber Monday: Traffic Insights from Kentik
  6. News in Networking: SD-WAN for $3.3B and Facebook’s Free Open/R Networking Tool
  7. Level 3 Route Leak: What Kentik Saw
  8. News in Networking: The Big Misconfig and IoT’s Enterprise Time Bomb
  9. Improving Legacy Approaches to Network Capacity Management
  10. News in Networking: VMware for SD-WAN, Google’s SDN, and Chevron’s Cloud
  11. Kentik for Site Reliability
  12. Configuring Kentik for SSO
  13. News in Networking: Russian Internet for North Korea, Google Finds DNS Vulnerabilities
  14. Kentik APIs Enable Multi-Solution Integration
  15. News in Networking: 160-Tbit/s Cable, Airline Network Issues, and a Patched-Mac Vuln
  16. News in Networking: Cisco Without Chambers, CCleaner Malware & Programmable Networks
  17. News in Networking: Data Center Hurricane Prep, Gambling with DDoS, and Rural Broadband
  18. Using Interface Classification in Kentik Detect
  19. News in Networking: New Data Centers, Same Old Internet Trolls
  20. Visualizing the Digital Eclipse
  21. Monitoring DNS with Kentik
  22. News in Networking: Internet v. Hate, DDoS Waves, and a $300M Cyber Hit
  23. The Why and How of Interface Classification
  24. News in Networking: Docker, Disney, and Big Data Caps
  25. HBO Attack: Can Alerting Help Protect Data?
  26. How Many Routes Do You Really Need?
  27. News in Networking: DDoS Mitigations and VPNs in China and Russia
  28. Learning From Your BGP Tables
  29. News in Networking: The Best Network Speeds, Cuba’s DIY Internet, and the Cost of Automation
  30. Why Your NetFlow is Safe in the Cloud
  31. News in Networking: Google’s Networking Algorithm, NASA’s IoT, and Another S3 Leak
  32. Big Data SaaS Saves Network Operations!
  33. Announcing KDDI’s Adoption of Kentik
  34. News in Networking: Apple’s New Data Center, Intel’s New Chip, and a Survey on Network Challenges
  35. Kentik Detect Alerting: Configuring Alert Policies
  36. Security in an SD-WAN World
  37. News in Networking: Verizon-Disney Rumors, ‘Most Promising’ 5G Operators, and UN List of Security Gaps
  38. Three Little NetFlow Databases in a Big Bad World
  39. News in Networking: Intent-based Networking, a Huge S3 Data Leak, and BGP Route Leaks
  40. Accuracy in Low-Volume NetFlow Sampling
  41. News in Networking: AWS Downtime, Skills for DevOps Engineers, and Tabs vs. Spaces Debate
  42. Telecoms Take On Network Analytics & Visibility
  43. News in Networking: Security-Defined Networking, SD-WAN, and Container Strategies
  44. Network Visibility for Higher Education IT
  45. News in Networking: Meeker’s Internet Trends, SD-WAN Adoption, and OS Networking
  46. Consolidated Tools Improve Network Management
  47. News in Networking: Open Data Centers, Internet 911, and $138.5B for Data
  48. Network Traffic Intelligence for ISPs
  49. News in Networking: Australia Internet Woes, VMware’s Deal, and NFV at BCE
  50. SDN and Self-Driving Networks
  51. News in Networking: ISPs, NFVs, and a SpaceX-based Internet
  52. Package Tracking for the Internet
  53. Internet2 Global Summit: Open Source Network Tools & DDoS Detection
  54. News in Networking: Transatlantic Typos, Money in the Cloud, and Pandora's New Visibility
  55. Top Reasons to Leave Legacy NPM Behind
  56. Internet2 Global Summit: The Future of R&E Networks & ITaaS
  57. News in Networking: ONUG, Bufferbloat, and DDoSing with IoT
  58. Accurate Visibility with NetFlow, sFlow, and IPFIX
  59. Big Data Analytics on Tap for Kentik at ONUG Spring 2017
  60. From Network Flow Monitoring to CapEx Savings
  61. Flow Data is Top Source for Network Analysis
  62. Why Large Enterprises Need Modern DDoS Defense
  63. How Important is the Internet to Enterprises Today?
  64. Kentik Joins Internet2
  65. The State of DDoS Attacks and Defense
  66. Modern NPM: Critical for Effective APM
  67. Cloud-Native Network Management
  68. Kentik Hackathon!
  69. Cisco’s Acquisition of AppDynamics
  70. Arbocalypse Now: Saving Yourself from DDoS Appliance EOL
  71. Culture War: How Network vs. Cloud Impacts Tools
  72. Partnering with A10 Networks for DDoS Defense
  73. Using NetFlow Analysis to Optimize IP Transit
  74. Kentik Earns Forrester Nod as Breakout Vendor

2016 52

  1. RouterFreak on Kentik Network Performance Monitoring
  2. Kentik CEO Avi Freedman with PacketPushers on NPM & DDoS
  3. Kentik Cited as IDC Innovator
  4. Culture War: Network vs. Cloud
  5. The (Net)Flow That Kentik Makes Go: Know Your Traffic Flow Data Protocols
  6. Kentik Troubleshoots Network Performance
  7. How to Configure Remotely Triggered Black-Hole Routing with Kentik Detect
  8. How ISPs & Managed Service Providers Can Offer DDoS Protection
  9. Big Data DDoS Protection vs the DDoS Marketplaces Threat
  10. It's Time for NPM Appliances to Go Bye-Bye
  11. The Dyn & Mirai Horror Show: The Weaponization of DDoS using Botnets
  12. Partnering with Radware for DDoS Protection
  13. Automate Remotely Triggered Black Hole DDoS Protection in Under an Hour
  14. How Scalable Architecture Boosts DDoS Detection Accuracy
  15. Valuable Network Data Deserves Life in the Cloud
  16. Making Network Performance Monitoring Relevant for Cloud and Digital Operations
  17. Podcast with Kentik CEO Avi Freedman & Jim Metzler
  18. Closing the Network Performance Monitoring Gap and Achieving Full Network Visibility
  19. How Kentik Detect & nProbe Monitor Your Network Performance
  20. Avi Freedman Talks Attacks & Solutions: Cisco Live 2016
  21. Big Data for NetFlow Analysis
  22. Kentik Shows NetFlow Analytics at NFD12
  23. The Network Is Your Headphone Cord
  24. BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 4
  25. PacketPushers: Flight from the Public Cloud?
  26. On Raising Our $23M B Round
  27. BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 3
  28. BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 2
  29. Unearthing the Value of Network Traffic Data with Big Data Network Analytics
  30. Cisco Tetration: A Step in the Right Direction
  31. Welcoming Cisco to the 2016 Analytics Party
  32. Kentik Detect for Network Security
  33. Common Ground for CIOs and CISOs
  34. Accuracy and Efficiency for Network Security
  35. Why Network Traffic Visibility is Crucial for Managed Service Providers
  36. Leveraging Big Data for Continuous Improvement
  37. Peering for the Win
  38. Kentik APIs for Customer Portal Integration
  39. Transforming NetOps with Big Data
  40. Inside the Kentik Data Engine, Part 2
  41. Inside the Kentik Data Engine, Part 1
  42. NetFlow, sFlow, and Flow Extensibility, Part 2
  43. Beyond Hadoop
  44. NetFlow, sFlow, and Flow Extensibility, Part 1
  45. Maximizing Network Metadata Value
  46. Evolution of BGP NetFlow Analysis, Part 2
  47. The Evolution of BGP NetFlow Analysis, Part 1
  48. From NetFlow Analysis to Business Outcome
  49. BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 1
  50. Introducing BGP Peering Analytics in Kentik Detect
  51. NetFlow, Cloud, and Data: Pacing Network Visibility With Growth
  52. Exploring for Insights on Anomalous Network Traffic

2015 14

  1. Designing for Database Fairness
  2. Using Kentik Detect to Find Current Attacks
  3. Detecting Hidden Spambots
  4. DDoS Detection: Separating Friend from Foe
  5. Metrics for Microservices
  6. Moneyball Your Network with Big Data Analytics
  7. Transcending MySQL-Based NetFlow Analysis
  8. Parsing Alert JSON
  9. A Compelling Cloud Approach to Network Visibility
  10. PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrappers
  11. The Stirring Simplicity of SaaS for Network Visibility
  12. Introducing Kentik
  13. 20 Years of Flying Blind
  14. Fifty Shades of Network Visibility