--- title: "Kentik Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of Kentik Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/server-monitoring/kentik-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Network Monitoring Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/) / Kentik Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/server-monitoring/kentik-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/server-monitoring/kentik-profile/alternatives/) # Kentik Review Custom quote Free version Free trial 1 plan On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview Kentik 4.6 [(33)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/server-monitoring/kentik-profile/reviews/) Pricing Pricing available upon request Top Alternatives ### 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 User Interface ## Popular Kentik Alternatives Main Product Kentik 4.6 [(33)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/server-monitoring/kentik-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.27Ease of use - 4.28Value for money - 4.39Customer support - 4.58Functionality Pricing Available upon request Alternative Product [Site24x7](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/site24x7-profile/) 4.7 [(381)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/site24x7-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.56Ease of use - 4.50Value for money - 4.49Customer support - 4.63Functionality Pricing Starting at $10.00 per month Alternative Product [OpManager Nexus](https://www.softwareadvice.com/aiops-platforms/manageengine-opmanager-plus-profile/) 4.6 [(45)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/aiops-platforms/manageengine-opmanager-plus-profile/#reviews) Ratings Breakdown - 4.56Ease of use - 4.59Value for money - 4.44Customer support - 4.44Functionality Pricing Starting at $1233.00 per year Alternative Product [N-central](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-management/solarwinds-n-central-profile/) 4.2 [(253)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-management/solarwinds-n-central-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.0Ease of use - 3.93Value for money - 3.92Customer support - 4.20Functionality Pricing Available upon request Alternative Product [ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.softwareadvice.com/it-management/manageengine-opmanager-profile/) 4.6 [(333)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/it-management/manageengine-opmanager-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.59Ease of use - 4.65Value for money - 4.57Customer support - 4.62Functionality Pricing Starting at $95.00 per year Alternative Product [Datadog](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/datadog-profile/) 4.6 [(367)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/datadog-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.29Ease of use - 4.12Value for money - 4.28Customer support - 4.52Functionality Pricing Starting at $15.00 per month ## 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 Purchasing & Receiving 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 Integration rated undefined from -1 review Flow Integration rated undefined from -1 review PagerDuty Integration rated undefined from -1 review OpsGenie Integration rated undefined from -1 review ServiceNow Integration rated undefined from -1 review ## Kentik User Reviews ## Kentik customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 33 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 22 reviews (67%) - 4 stars: 9 reviews (27%) - 3 stars: 2 reviews (6%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.3/5 - Value for money: 4.3/5 - Customer support: 4.4/5 - Functionality: 4.6/5 --- ### Kentik Network Monitoring - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### answering a little about kentik - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: José C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 9/10, just missing a quick update rate. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The range of possibilities it offers.tools with various customization possibilities. #### Cons The delay in capturing aspects of the network and alerts. --- ### My Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Shane H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Intuitive and satisfying to use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Toby R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Highly - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Bernhard P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Satisfactory - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Caio S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Kentik - A software with a excellent set of tools - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Saymon A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Easy to use powerful product - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Andrew L. - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Invaluable Insight into network traffic - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Bob R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Traffic Reports - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Larry L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Sales has been really responsive to all our needs. I recommend them greatly. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- Showing 1 - 10 of 33 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/server-monitoring/kentik-profile/reviews/) ## Kentik Popular Comparisons [Datadog vs Kentik](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/datadog-profile/vs/kentik/)[Splunk Enterprise vs Kentik](https://www.softwareadvice.com/server-monitoring/kentik-profile/vs/splunk-enterprise/)[Dynatrace vs Kentik](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/dynatrace-profile/vs/kentik/)[New Relic vs Kentik](https://www.softwareadvice.com/server-monitoring/kentik-profile/vs/new-relic-one/)[LogicMonitor vs Kentik](https://www.softwareadvice.com/server-monitoring/kentik-profile/vs/logicmonitor/) [Compare All Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/server-monitoring/kentik-profile/alternatives/) ## See what companies are saying about Software Advice