Kentik
About
Kentik is a network intelligence platform company that provides observability, monitoring, and security tools for modern infrastructure teams. The platform collects and analyzes network telemetry from data centers, multi-cloud environments, SD-WAN, and the internet to help network engineers troubleshoot, optimize performance, manage costs, and detect security threats. Kentik serves enterprise, cloud, and service provider customers with AI-assisted network analysis and a broad set of integrations...
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Ideal Customer
- Kentik's sweet spot is large enterprises and service providers with complex, high-volume, and multi-environment networks — organizations managing infrastructure across data centers, multiple clouds, and the public internet simultaneously.
- Named customers like Zoom, Dropbox, GoDaddy, Akamai, ServiceNow, and Booking.com reflect an enterprise profile, while the service provider segment includes Tier 1 ISPs, regional ISPs, telcos, hyperscalers, and data center operators.
Key Differentiators
- Kentik differentiates itself as a purpose-built, SaaS-native, device- and telemetry-agnostic network intelligence platform built by network operators from Akamai, Netflix, YouTube, and Cloudflare — giving it deep domain credibility.
- Its underlying data engine, modeled after Google Dremel, is architected for carrier-grade ingest at extreme scale, enabling real-time query performance across hundreds of billions of flow records daily without server sprawl or appliance infrastructure.
Industries Served
- Kentik primarily serves three major verticals: digital businesses and large enterprises (including SaaS companies, e-commerce, and media), corporate IT organizations, and service providers including ISPs, telcos, hyperscalers, and data center operators.
- Named enterprise customers include Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, Zoom, GoDaddy, ServiceNow, Canva, IBM, ConocoPhillips, and Imperva, while service provider customers include MetroNet, Midco, Race Communications, Cogent, CTS Telecom, Viasat, and GTT.
Service Coverage
- Kentik operates as a global SaaS platform, serving customers worldwide with no geographic restrictions inherent to its cloud-delivered model.
- Its area served is listed as 'Worldwide,' with a documented customer base spanning North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America, and approximately 263 employees across 6 continents.
Partnerships
- Kentik maintains a broad set of named technology alliance partners, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Juniper Networks, Arista, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, A10, Radware, Grafana, New Relic, PagerDuty, Gigamon, Megaport, NetBox Labs, PacketFabric, Itential, and Alkira.
- The company also has an integration partnership with Red Hat centered on Ansible Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) for network automation workflows, and integrates broadly with APM, SIEM, ChatOps, orchestration, incident management, and SSO platforms.
Company Size & Ownership
- Kentik was founded in 2014 (originally as CloudHelix, rebranded in 2015) by Avi Freedman, Ian Applegate, Ian Pye, and Justin Biegel, and has grown to approximately 264 employees as of 2026.
- The company raised over $100 million in total venture funding across multiple rounds — including a $40 million Series C in October 2021 led by Third Point Ventures — with a valuation estimated at $360–$400 million in 2021.
Compliance & Certifications
- Kentik maintains annual SOC 2 Type II attestations and shares audit reports under NDA, and its hosting centers are SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 certified.
- The platform supports compliance reporting evidence for common frameworks including SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR through full-fidelity flow data retention, though Kentik itself does not process or store PCI or ePHI data from customer networks.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
9 offeringsAI Advisor
An agentic AI tool that interprets plain-English questions and conducts multi-step network investigations by running queries across telemetry, alerts, configuration backups and diffs, and on-demand device diagnostics. It delivers evidence-backed reasoning with probable cause, supporting data, and recommended next steps, and can codify institutional knowledge into repeatable natural-language runbooks for operations teams.
Integrations
Kentik is a SaaS-native, device- and telemetry-agnostic platform that integrates with a wide range of third-party tools across APM, collaboration and ChatOps, containers, DDoS mitigation, databases, firewall platforms, CDNs, incident management, networking vendors, operations, orchestration, public clouds, SD-WAN, SIEM, and SSO platforms. Data is sent or received using open-source tooling such as ktranslate and supports webhooks and APIs for custom workflows.
Kentik AI
An AI layer built into the Kentik platform that sees telemetry and metadata from all networks and clouds without context switching, enabling natural-language queries in any language. It includes Cause Analysis for automatically isolating and analyzing traffic spikes and drops, and AI-generated summaries of key network insights for streamlined operations.
Multi-Cloud Observability
Provides complete hybrid and multi-cloud network observability by visualizing infrastructure from data center to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI, and IBM Cloud environments. Teams can check live connectivity between instances, detect compliance and security risks, optimize cloud costs, and troubleshoot performance issues using an interactive topology map and Data Explorer for fast traffic analysis.
Network Monitoring System (NMS)
A next-generation SaaS-based network monitoring platform that collects device metrics, configuration context, syslog, traps, and streaming telemetry from routers, switches, and servers across any vendor or cloud. It integrates AI Advisor for guided root-cause analysis, provides unified dashboards correlating NMS metrics with flow and synthetics, and supports SNMP and streaming telemetry with no server sprawl.
Network Security and Compliance
Monitors and investigates security incidents across all networks using AI-driven anomaly detection, DDoS detection with automated mitigation via RTBH, Flowspec, Cloudflare, Radware, and A10 integrations, and BGP hijack and route leak detection with RPKI validation. It also provides full-fidelity forensic data retention, policy compliance verification, cloud ACL auditing, and malware communication detection via blacklist and geo-based filtering.
Peering and Interconnection
Helps ISPs and network operators discover and evaluate peering targets based on traffic flows, ratios, volume, and geographic overlay, with PeeringDB data integrated directly into the platform. It includes connectivity cost management with automated tiered billing calculations, CDN analytics, OTT service tracking across 850+ services, and Kentik Market Intelligence for AS-level market share and competitive insights.
SD-WAN Monitoring
Delivers end-to-end SD-WAN visibility beyond built-in vendor tools by ingesting flow logs from major SD-WAN platforms and legacy routers simultaneously. Teams can visualize underlay and overlay traffic, validate SD-WAN policy intent, plan capacity, detect security anomalies, and maintain visibility through migrations, vendor changes, or M&A integrations.
Synthetic Monitoring
Provides active synthetic testing and monitoring across network infrastructure, multi-cloud, and SaaS applications using 200+ global public agents and customer-deployed private agents. Teams can run page load, web transaction, DNS, HTTP, ping, traceroute, and BGP monitor tests, monitor AS path changes and RPKI status, and view a performance mesh across hundreds of sites simultaneously.
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