Kentik Network News Issue #2: August 2024
Avi Freedman on OpenTelemetry and Network Observability
In this episode of TFiR, Avi Freedman, CEO and co-founder at Kentik, discusses the challenges of network observability, the benefits and limitations of OpenTelemetry, and how Kentik is addressing these challenges.
He says, "We're trying to help this telemetry unification for network people by unifying Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and streaming telemetry."
Modern Apps Demand Advanced Observability
Systems have become more complex. Therefore, the tools needed to monitor and heal these systems also needed to become more sophisticated. In a world where we want answers, and we want them now, it's not terribly surprising that the world needed to evolve beyond the reactive world of monitoring to the more proactive world of observability
In this roundtable from The New Stack, join Avi Freedman, CEO and co-founder at Kentik, as well as a panel of other experts on OpenTelemetry, network observability, point solutions versus single pane of glass, and, of course, the role of AI.
Navigating the Complexities of Hybrid and Multi-cloud Environments
Learn how Kentik's unified platform provides engineers with comprehensive visibility
Kentik ingests and visualizes data from various sources, including public clouds, SaaS providers, private data centers, and more. See how you can drill down from a high-level overview to granular details such as specific IP addresses, VPC traffic, and performance metrics.
Dissecting the FCC's Proposal to Improve BGP Security
The FCC recently published a proposal to require nine major US internet service providers to deploy RPKI Route Origin Validation (ROV).
In this post, Doug Madory examines the proposal and the nine service providers' current position regarding ROV.
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How Kentik Lowers Cloud Costs
Migrating to public clouds initially promised cost savings, but effective management now requires a strategic approach to monitoring traffic.
Learn how Kentik provides comprehensive visibility across multi-cloud environments, enabling detailed traffic analysis
What's New at Kentik
As always, we're back with our fast-paced, fun video recap of everything you need to know from your friends at Kentik over the last month.
Learn about improvements to Kentik's search bar, explore the recent Network Management Megatrends report highlights, and get an introduction to our new video series, Kentik Close-Up. We also explore the Kentik API and how to use it with tools like Telegraf.
Kentik Close-Up: NMS
In this episode, Leon Adato is joined by product experts Rosalind Whitley and Kendra Crossman to discuss the essentials of a network monitoring system (NMS). Learn why network monitoring is crucial, what makes Kentik's solution unique, and how it can revolutionize your approach to network monitoring.
A Deep Dive into BGP Flowspec
Flowspec distributes basic firewall functionality into BGP. In the last decade, it's become a popular way to mitigate the effects of a DDoS attack by filtering incoming BGP Update Messages.
In this episode of The Telemetry Now Podcast, Justin Ryburn, Field CTO at Kentik, explains how Flowspec works, how it's implemented, and why it has yet to be adopted quite as widely as we expected.