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"When we started, maybe ten percent of our traffic went to a CDN. Now it's ninety percent on the CDNs or local caches and ten percent goes to transit. We've really flipped the whole script." — John Lubeck, Midco.

A BGP session goes down because a transit provider exceeded the maximum prefix limit. How do you find the root cause — fast? In this 10-minute demo, we walk through two approaches using Kentik AI Advisor. First, we troubleshoot step by step using natural language: asking AI Advisor to identify the affected interface, check for interface flapping, and review syslog messages until we find the maximum-prefix violation. Then we show how custom network context and natural language runbooks let AI Advisor do the entire investigation autonomously — following the same four steps a senior engineer would.

In this demo, we use Kentik AI Advisor to troubleshoot a real-world BGP misconfiguration that brings down a peering session with a transit provider. You’ll see how AI Advisor works both as a dedicated page and as an in-portal overlay, using natural language to identify the affected interface, correlate SNMP and syslog data, and pinpoint a maximum-prefix issue as the root cause. Then we accelerate and standardize the workflow with custom network context and AI-powered runbooks, so every engineer can troubleshoot BGP alerts like an expert.

Happy Holidays from your friends at Kentik! We hope you enjoy our traditional, heartwarming tale of a data packet struggling to reach its destination.

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Go behind the scenes of a major internet analysis. When the recent Red Sea cable cuts disrupted global connectivity, Kentik's Director of Internet Analysis, Doug Madory, turned to the Cloud Latency Map to track the fallout in real-time. In this clip from the latest Telemetry Now podcast, Doug walks through how he identified the latency spikes and rerouting caused by the damage.