Kentik is an American network observability,
network monitoring and
anomaly detection company headquartered in San Francisco, California.
History
Kentik was founded in 2014 as CloudHelix by Co-founders Avi Freedman, Ian Applegate, Ian Pye, and Justin Biegel. The company changed its name to Kentik in 2015.
Technology
Kentik's Network Observability Cloud is a
software-as-a-service (SaaS) product that ingests
NetFlow
NetFlow is a feature that was introduced on Cisco routers around 1996 that provides the ability to collect IP network traffic as it enters or exits an interface. By analyzing the data provided by NetFlow, a network administrator can determine thin ...
and other network data and analyzes it to provide
network monitoring and
anomaly detection services for the operators of Internet-connected networks. Kentik's underlying data engine is a clustered datastore modeled on
Dremel.
The engine collects and correlates live operational data from Internet
routers and
switches to produce network activity and health information.
Analysis
Since November 2020, Kentik has been the organizational home of
Doug Madory
Doug Madory is an American Internet routing infrastructure expert, who specializes in analyzing Internet Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing data to diagnose Internet routing disruptions, such as those caused by communications fiber cable cuts ...
's Internet routing analysis practice, previously associated with Renesys and Renesys' subsequent acquirers
DynDNS
Dyn, Inc. () was an Internet performance management and web application security company, offering products to monitor, control, and optimize online infrastructure, and also domain registration services and email products. The company was acqui ...
and
Oracle
An oracle is a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. As such, it is a form of divination.
Description
The word '' ...
. While employed by Kentik, Madory discovered the
Global Resource Systems IP address hijacking which occurred during the final hours of the
Trump administration and was the first to accurately quantify the
2021 Facebook outage
On October 4, 2021, at 15:39 UTC, the social network Facebook and its subsidiaries, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Mapillary, and Oculus, became globally unavailable for a period of six to seven hours. The outage also prevented anyone trying ...
, the largest communications outage in history.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://kentik.com
Kentik Internet Analysis
2014 establishments in California
American companies established in 2014
Computer companies established in 2014
Networking companies of the United States
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Technology companies established in 2014