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Beyond Their Intended Scope: BGP Goof-UPX

In this second installment of Beyond Their Intended Scope, we analyze a recent BGP leak out of Brazil that briefly affected networks around the world. Because this routing mishap was a path leak (i.e., did not involve any mis-originations and therefore immune from RPKI ROV protection), it demonstrates why we need a thing called ASPA … ASAP.

Evaluating Cloud Gateways for Cost and Performance

Cloud networking costs can escalate due to inefficient routing and limited visibility. Kentik’s cloud visibility and analytics solution helps engineers optimize transit, reduce costs, and improve performance by analyzing AWS Transit Gateways and exploring alternatives like direct peering, storage endpoints, and AWS CloudWAN.

Kentik - Cloud Observability

Kentik Cloud provides comprehensive visibility across all major public clouds, offering seamless insight into cloud-to-on-prem network paths and the public internet routes connecting them. Identify latency, loss, jitter, and application-specific traffic while providing deep visibility into cloud networking constructs like ACLs to spot security issues. With powerful analytics, Kentik Cloud enables you to visualize intra-cloud traffic, identify idle resources for optimization, and leverage historical data to uncover trends and seasonal patterns—ensuring optimal cloud performance and cost efficiency.

Comparing Azure NSG and VNet Flow Logs

Phil Gervasi compares Azure NSG Flow Logs and VNet Flow Logs, explaining the benefits VNet Flow Logs bring to network observability in Azure environments. Learn how VNet Flow Logs simplify network monitoring, improve traffic visibility, and address the limitations of NSG Flow Logs by capturing traffic at the virtual network level. Learn about VNet Flow Log applications—including traffic analysis, network optimization, and security enhancement—and how Kentik integrates with these logs for deeper insights and advanced analytics.

TikTok Emerges from Shutdown Without Bytedance's US CDN

Kentik’s Doug Madory looks into this weekend’s 14-hour outage of popular video sharing service TikTok, which was slated to be banned from the US per recent legislation. While TikTok came back, it is notably no longer being served by parent company Bytedance’s US CDN. We delve into the traffic statistics in this blog post.

Democratizing Access to Network Telemetry with Kentik Journeys

In this post, discover how Kentik Journeys integrates large language models to revolutionize network observability. By enabling anyone in IT to query and analyze network telemetry in plain language, regardless of technical expertise, Kentik breaks down silos and democratizes access to critical insights simplifying complex workflows, enhancing collaboration, and ensuring secure, real-time access to your network data.

Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: Netflix Rumbles Into Wrestling

On Monday, Netflix debuted professional wrestling as its latest foray into live event streaming. The airing of WWE’s Monday Night Raw followed Netflix’s broadcasts of a heavily-promoted boxing match featuring a 58-year-old Mike Tyson and two NFL games on Christmas Day. In this post, we look into the traffic statistics of how these programs were delivered.

AWS re:Invent 2024: A Week of Innovation and Excitement

AWS re:Invent 2024 brought together a record-breaking 80,000 attendees in Las Vegas to explore the latest innovations in cloud computing, from generative AI to sustainability. In this post, Justin Ryburn shares his key takeaways from the event, highlighting AWS’s vision for the future and the vibrant energy of the conference.