What Is Kentik? Features, Pricing & Alternatives

Overview

Kentik is a network intelligence and observability platform for monitoring, analysing and securing networks from the data centre to the cloud^[18]. Its core is large-scale traffic analysis: network telemetry and flow data are stored in the Kentik Data Engine and explored with a Universal Data Explorer, alongside multi-cloud observability, a network monitoring system, SD-WAN monitoring and synthetic testing^[18]. Security and service-provider features include DDoS detection, peering and interconnection analysis and BGP route monitoring^[18].

Kentik AI Advisor answers network questions in plain language, such as whether a traffic spike is an attack, and Kentik claims it cuts investigation time by 96%^[18]. Customers named on its site include ServiceNow, Box, New Relic, Zoom and Booking.com^[18].

Kentik publishes one price: the Pro plan starts at US$2,000 per month billed annually (US$24,000 a year) for up to 50 users, while Premier, for up to 1,000 users, is quote-based; only annual contracts are offered, and international customers must request pricing^[17]. A 30-day free trial is available^[17]. The cost and focus on flow analytics make Kentik more relevant to large networks than to small offices.

What Kentik does

Flow and telemetry analytics at scale
Kentik AI Advisor
Synthetic monitoring
DDoS detection
BGP and peering analysis
Multi-cloud and SD-WAN monitoring

Kentik pricing

Pro from US$2,000 per month billed annually (US$24,000/year, up to 50 users). Premier by quote (up to 1,000 users). Annual contracts only. 30-day free trial.