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Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale.
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Network challenges are intensifying. Kentik CEO Avi Freedman argues that observability is no longer sufficient for today's complex networks and the rise of AI. Understand why Network Intelligence is the essential next step. 🚀

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Beyond Observability: Why Network Intelligence Will Make Traditional Network Management Obsolete
Kentik CEO and co-founder Avi Freedman explains why observability is not enough in the age of AI.
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Amazon has blamed today's massive outage on the "DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1."

@kentik.bsky.social observed a complete drop-off in traffic to this particular AWS service beginning at 06:55 UTC. Thousands of services around the world were impacted.
October 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Yesterday, the internet in Afghanistan went dark.

The Taliban ordered the country's first-ever nationwide shutdown, a devastating blow to its growing digital economy and a profound assault on human rights.

Our full analysis from @eldomador.bsky.social:

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Afghanistan Downs Internet to “Prevent Immorality”
Afghanistan has imposed its first nationwide internet shutdown, cutting off connectivity to “prevent immorality” — a blow to digital freedoms, education, and media already under severe strain since th...
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September 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
💡 New Telemetry Now! Tired of spreadsheets for network cost analysis?

Lauren Basile unveils Kentik's new Traffic Costs feature: automated, per-slice cost estimates at your fingertips.

Rethink your spend & boost margins 🤔

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#NetOps #FinOps #Networking
Turning Network Telemetry into Financial Insight
Lauren Basile joins us to show how traffic-aware cost intelligence turns spreadsheet guesswork into one-click, per-slice cost estimates across customers, ASNs, and CDNs. Learn about the SNMP plus cont...
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September 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
LIVE NOW! 🚨 Kentik's @eldomador.bsky.social is doing an AMA on Reddit's r/networking!

Ask him anything about the Red Sea cable cuts, global internet traffic, and more.

Join the convo: www.reddit.com/r/networking...

#AMA #Networking #InternetOutage #SubmarineCables #BGP
From the networking community on Reddit: AMA: I'm Doug Madory, Internet Data Analyst. Ask me anything about the recent Red Sea cable cuts or other subsea cable incidents in recent years.
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September 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The #AI era is here, and it's changing everything about networking. 🚀

Join our live webinar on Sept. 23 with experts from NetMavens, Seaborn Networks, and Kentik to learn how to keep up.

Register here:
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Network Intelligence in the AI Era: Balancing Cost, Complexity, and Performance
The rise of AI, multi-cloud, and data-hungry applications has driven an explosion in network traffic and complexity. Traditional monitoring tools weren’t built for this new era – leaving network servi...
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September 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We're LIVE from Yotta 2025 in Las Vegas! 🚀

Stop by booth 516 to see a live demo and learn how to get the network visibility you need to optimize for performance, security, and cost.

We look forward to connecting with you on the show floor!

#Yotta2025 #networkintelligence
September 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Submarine cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupt connectivity between Europe and Asia.

Latency spikes as traffic is re-routed around the broken cables. @kentik.bsky.social's Cloud Latency Map captures the impacts here:
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September 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The fastest GPU is only as fast as the slowest packet. 🤯

Your network is the real bottleneck in AI training. Here's a playbook for network operators on how to reduce job completion time (JCT) and save on #GPU costs.

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#AI #AIOps #Networking
The Critical Role of Networks in AI Data Centers
The fastest GPU is only as fast as the slowest packet. In this post, we examine how the network is the primary bottleneck in AI data centers and offer a practical playbook for network operators to opt...
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September 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We're going to Yotta 2025 in Las Vegas! 🎲

Come say hi to the Kentik team and see how we’re helping companies get a single, unified view of their entire network.

#Yotta2025 #DataCenter #CloudOps #NetworkIntelligence
September 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Kentik CPO, Mav Turner, talks about everything from network security to the future of #AI and Kentik's new Traffic Costs solution in an interview with The Software With.

Watch the interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9VG...

#NetOps #NetworkSecurity #AIOps
Real-Time Network Cost Intelligence with Mav Turner
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September 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
How much is your traffic really costing you? 💸

We're solving a decades-old problem. Introducing Traffic Costs, a new way to instantly connect traffic flows to network spend.

Learn more: www.kentik.com/blog/introdu...

#NetOps #NetworkIntelligence
Introducing Kentik Traffic Costs: Real-Time Network Cost Intelligence
Introducing Kentik Traffic Costs, an industry-first automated workflow delivering instant cost estimates for network traffic slices. Learn how this exciting new feature gives network, financial, and s...
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September 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We're at #AUSNOG2025! Come say hi to the Kentik team and see how we’re helping engineers get ahead of network issues.

Catch @DougMadory's talk, "The Scourge of Excessive AS-SETs." You don't want to miss it!

#NetOps #Networking #NetworkIntelligence
September 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
What's the real bottleneck in AI training? It's not your GPU—it's your network. 🤯

In our latest podcast, we delve into how next-gen #AI data centers are being shaped by factors such as job completion time, optical interconnects, and more.

Listen now: kentik.com/telemetrynow...
From GPUs to Packets: The Critical Role of Networks in AI Datacenters
AI training isn’t just about GPUs, it’s about the network that ties them together. Host Phil Gervasi sits down with Vijay Vusirikala to unpack why job completion time is the true metric of success, ho...
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August 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Move from reactive firefighting to automated IT operations with Kentik & ServiceNow! 🔥

Join us for a live webinar & demo on August 26 to see how agentic #AI helps network teams:

📈 Speed up issue detection 💪 Boost efficiency 🏃 Move faster

www.kentik.com/go/webinar/r...

#AIOps #NetOps #ITOps
From Reactive to Proactive: The Rise of Agentic Networks | Kentik and ServiceNow Webinar
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August 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Is flow data a luxury or a necessity? 🤔

For too long, network operators have relied on aging tools instead of the rich context flow data provides. Our new post explains why that's a mistake.

Read more about its role in modern #NetworkIntelligence:

www.kentik.com/blog/why-enr...
Why (Enriched) Flow Data Belongs in Every Network Operator’s Daily Toolbox
Flow data has always held immense potential, but was often inaccessible because it lacked context and speed. Kentik removes that friction by automatically enriching flow with human-readable context, m...
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August 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Starlink's biggest outage in years? 🛰️ Internet Analyst @eldomador.bsky.social breaks down what happened and its impact on customers and network resilience.

Read the deep-dive analysis here: www.kentik.com/blog/the-sta...
The Starlink Outage and Its Impact on Community Gateways
Last month, Starlink suffered its largest outage in years, arguably its biggest since becoming a major internet provider. In addition to the millions of individual customers around the world, the outa...
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August 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In a new episode of Get With IT, Avi Freedman discusses the evolution from observability to network intelligence, covering topics like the network talent gap and the death of static configs.

🎧 Listen now:
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#Networking #ITOps #AI #NetworkIntelligence
97: The evolution from observability to network intelligence (with Kentik's Avi Freedman) - Get With IT
In this episode, Dave interviews Avi Freedman, CEO of Kentik about network intelligence. They discuss: The talent gap in network intelligenceHow network monitoring has evolved from the days ...
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August 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
AI is more than GPUs—it's about the infrastructure underneath! 🧠

In the new Telemetry Now, we unpack the rise of #Neocloud and dive into the critical role of networking, job completion time, and multi-tenancy.

🎧 Listen now: www.kentik.com/telemetrynow...

#DataCenter #AI #Networking
Neocloud and the Future of AI Operations
In this episode of Telemetry Now, Phil and guest David Cliffe explore “neocloud”—what it is, why it’s growing fast, and how it’s reshaping AI infrastructure. From GPUs and high-speed interconnects to ...
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August 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
VXLAN scales your network, but leaves you blind! 🙈

Traditional tools only see VTEP-to-VTEP traffic. We break down how to close the #VXLAN visibility gap, decode overlays, and get host-to-host insights.

Learn more: www.kentik.com/blog/data-ce...

#Networking #datacenter #NetOps
Data Center VXLAN Overlay Visibility at Scale
VXLAN overlays bring flexibility to modern data centers, but they also hide what operators most need to see: true host-to-host and service-to-service traffic. Kentik restores that visibility by decodi...
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August 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New Telemetry News Now!

Hear @networkphil.com and @justinryburn.bsky.social break down the week's biggest headlines: Intel spin-offs, AI malware, quantum networking, Broadcom's Jericho4, & Cisco's move to scan #AI models.

Tune in to stay informed! 🎧

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#Networking #ITPro
Telemetry News Now: Intel Spins Off Networking Business, Cisco Teams Up with Hugging Face, Broadcom’s Jericho4 Ethernet Fabric Router
In this Telemetry News Now episode, Phil Gervasi and Justin Ryburn tackle Intel’s plan to spin off its Network & Edge Group (NEX) and what it means for high‑performance Ethernet NICs, examine Cisco’s ...
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August 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Raw flow data is powerful, but enriched flow data is intelligent. 🧠

In the new Telemetry Now, we dive into what data enrichment is, why it matters, and how it transforms telemetry into the insights you need.

Tune in: www.kentik.com/telemetrynow...

#NetOps #Cloud #Observability
Adding Context to Network Telemetry with Data Enrichment
Phil Gervasi sits down with Kentik Product Marketing Manager Eric Hian-Cheong to discuss why data enrichment is the "secret sauce" that turns raw flow logs, metrics, and cloud telemetry into true netw...
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August 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
When Cloudflare's public #DNS went down on July 14th, #BGP hijack rumors immediately took hold. But what if the widely accepted theory was wrong?

@eldomador.bsky.social dives into the incident, explaining how Kentik's unique data allowed him to push back on the BGP hijack narrative.
July 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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A major earthquake occurred yesterday (Tuesday, July 29, 2025) off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

A disruption of internet traffic was picked up in @kentik.bsky.social's aggregate NetFlow data at 23:26 UTC for two of the largest providers in the region.
July 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Are your AI models stuck in slow motion? 🐌 It's not always the GPUs!

Our new blog reveals how the network is the hidden bottleneck impacting #AITraining Job Completion Time (JCT). Dive into microbursts, RDMA congestion & more.

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The Network Impact on Job Completion Time in AI Model Training
In large-scale AI model training, network performance is no longer a supporting actor — it’s center stage. Job Completion Time (JCT), the key metric for measuring training efficiency, is heavily influ...
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July 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New Telemetry News Now! 🚨

@networkphil.com & @justinryburn.bsky.social break down the week's critical headlines: Cloudflare's DNS outage, massive tech acquisitions (Palo Alto/SentinelOne, HPE/Juniper, Arista/VeloCloud), & #AIDataCenter challenges!

Tune in: www.kentik.com/telemetrynow...
Telemetry News Now: Cloudflare DNS Outage, Acquisition Rumors, Submarine Cable Security, Alaska Airlines Outage, New COO at Arista
In this Telemetry News Now episode, Phil and Justin cover the global Cloudflare DNS outage, a rumored $10B SentinelOne acquisition by Palo Alto Networks, submarine cable security concerns from U.S. la...
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July 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM