Kentik 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Pricing and Plans
Features
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User Reviews

Overview

Kentik

4.6

(33)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Kentik

Kentik is a cloud-based network management solution which assists network managers, network engineers and operators with data encryption and access control. Its key features include bandwidth monitoring, network diagnosis, performance metrics and anomaly detection.

The application captures traffic, SNMPdata , BGP routing, network data and flow records across internet paths. Managers can view graph traffic for multiple metrics on a centralized portal and share reports with authorized users. With the anomaly detection module, users can detect DDos attacks and receive alert notifications. Further, the solution stores customer data on a secure SOC-2 compliant data center.

Kentik comes with a REST API and integrates with third-party applications such as A10 and Radware. It is available on a monthly subscription and support is provided via phone, email and online help desk.

Kentik Screenshots

Kentik Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

Kentik Features

Popular features found in Network Monitoring
Bandwidth Monitoring
Baseline Manager
Data Visualization
Device Auto Discovery
Incident Management
IP Address Monitoring
Network Analysis
Patch Management
Real-Time Data
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Threshold Alerts
Uptime Reporting
More features of Kentik
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
AI/Machine Learning
Alerts/Escalation
Alerts/Notifications
Anomaly Detection
API
Capacity Management
Compliance Management
Configuration Management
Continuous Monitoring
Customizable Reports
Dashboard
Dashboard Creation
Data Aggregation
Email Alerts
Monitoring
Multi-Device Support
Network Resource Management
Network Security
Performance Metrics
Performance Monitoring
Predictive Analytics
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Reporting
Real-Time Updates
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Root Cause Analysis
Self Service Portal
Server Monitoring
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
Third-Party Integrations
Visual Analytics
Web Traffic Reporting

Kentik Integrations

Slack

Flow

PagerDuty

OpsGenie

ServiceNow

Kentik User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

67%

27%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.6

Verified

Reviewer

Telecommunications

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Kentik Network Monitoring

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 4

Functionality

Previously 5

Pros:

The versatility. Kentik was able to tell me so much about what was happening in the network. Normal traffic, abnormal... it was a lovely tool to show customers what they were doing. I was able to analyze what I needed to know so I knew who to peer with.

Cons:

Versatility comes with a price - Kentik was very complicated to use. If you didn't use it very frequently, you generally forgot how.

José C.

Verified reviewer

Internet

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2023

answering a little about kentik

9/10, just missing a quick update rate.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The range of possibilities it offers.tools with various customization possibilities.

Cons:

The delay in capturing aspects of the network and alerts.

Shane H.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2023

My Review

We were able to identify traffic patterns and utilization across all our upstream providers and monitor where our OTP traffic was coming from.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Bandwidth usage from our upstream providers. OTP reports and usage.

Cons:

I can't think of any features that were missing. The product performed well and accomplished what we were looking for at the time. We just didn't use it enough to justify the cost.

Toby R.

Verified reviewer

Internet

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2023

Intuitive and satisfying to use

Kentik was the obvious and necessary choice for us because unlike similar products at the time it could properly handle flows on different L3 VPNs, but above and beyond that we’ve been very happy with it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

For such a powerful and feature rich application, Kentik is surprisingly intuitive to use, and its look and feel is very pleasing and satisfying. The support one gets is also excellent, with direct access to subject matter experts who respond quickly and effectively.

Cons:

It’s not cheap, especially if like us you have a large number of devices that need to supply samples, but that’s not uncommon for this type of software.

Reasons for switching to Kentik

We anyway had to retender the contract, but the inability of the then current system to handle L3VPN traffic meant we were happy to move away from it.

Bernhard P.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

10000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2023

Highly

Managing a successful internet business without detailed analysis capabilities is really not an option anymore. Kentik appears to be one of the most powerful tools on the market.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The best part of Kentik is that it allows us to perform really detailed analysis on how our network is being used by customers and peers. This really allows us to make much more highly informed peering and sales decisions.

Cons:

Although considerable improvements have been made to usability, I think there is still further developments that can be made in this area. The amount of data storage that is currently required to store the data to run Kentik is still rather high and this limits how far back in time we can go with the analysis.

Caio S.

Verified reviewer

Internet

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2023

Satisfactory

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Very simple and intuitive tool to use.It brings very important results and visions to the day-to-day operations and makes it easier to understand the networks.

Cons:

No cons within the platform, all features please me.

Saymon A.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Kentik - A software with a excellent set of tools

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The easy of deployment and use. The hability to create alerts based on traffic, the synthetics monitoring is a feature that I din't knew that I needed and now I can't live without it. Also, the DDoS section of the software is quite complete.

Cons:

The price ! Depending on what you need the software can be a little expensive and is a pay to use. You can't purchase and use forever.

Andrew L.

Higher Education

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

Easy to use powerful product

We are using Kentik to analyze our traffic for reporting based up where it's coming from and going to, which allows us to quickly make decisions on where and how to add capacity. We are also using the monitoring and mitigation components to detect and signal mitigation when a ddos occurs on our network.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Kentik is very easy to use., classifying interfaces, adding devices and defining alerts is a breeze. Before we started using Kentik, we relied upon user reports and a cli driven interface to detect issues and attempt any sort of mitigation. Kentik has allowed us to setup automated alerts and signaling for mitigation of attacks, which after setting up and tuning, we are now able to automatically mitigate attacks in just a few minutes where it would take much longer before. Kentik has also given us a wonderful interface which we are able to use to at the click of a button pull reports which tell us where our traffic is coming and going from, while at the same time allowing us to share it with our customers with ease.

Cons:

Overall, there are really no major cons that we have come across as support has always been very helpful when we are looking for a new feature or a way to do something.

Bob R.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

Invaluable Insight into network traffic

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Just Works! Easy to implement. Great customer support

Cons:

The software comes at a significant cost to our organization. I would love it to be onsite rather than cloud. I don't like sending our netflows to a third party, and once when we had a severe DDoS attack, we could not use Kentik since our data did not get to them.

Larry L.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

Traffic Reports

Sales has been really responsive to all our needs. I recommend them greatly.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the option of being able to make reports quickly. I can see trends, usage and potential problems with all the options available on the reports.

Cons:

Took a bit to figure out all the report options. However, my Kentik sales person setup a demo with myself and my team to go over all the features. They also recorded the session so we can refer back to it when we need.

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