AI Diagnostics in Kentik NMS (Network Monitoring System)
Network problems are easy to spot. Proving root cause is the hard part — and it’s where most of MTTR gets burned. Kentik’s new AI diagnostics in the Network Monitoring System (NMS) close the gap between detection and diagnosis by bringing three capabilities directly into Kentik AI Advisor:
- On-Demand Connectivity Tests — AI Advisor automatically runs pings and traceroutes from the vantage points that matter, so reachability, latency, loss, and path behavior are analyzed alongside your telemetry without leaving the investigation.
- Config Context: Backups and Diffs — Kentik periodically scrapes running configs over SSH, stores them as backups, and surfaces revisions and diffs inside NMS. AI Advisor can interpret them in natural language, summarize what changed, and flag config drift relevant to the alert at hand.
- SSH Command Access for On-Demand Device Diagnostics — AI Advisor can propose, run, and interpret approved, read-only show commands on supported devices. Engineers stay in one investigation thread instead of bouncing to a separate CLI. Strictly read-only, with command controls and user confirmation.
Together, these features let network teams move from alert to evidence to resolution faster — with less tool hopping and more confidence in what they’re seeing. AI Advisor reasons across alerts, telemetry, configs, connectivity tests, and live device output as one unified body of evidence, so the answer to “what’s actually wrong?” arrives in the same workflow as the original alert.
Kentik Network Intelligence: now everyone can design, operate, and protect infrastructure at scale.
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0:00 Why is root cause analysis so hard?
0:12 What are AI diagnostics in Kentik NMS?
0:18 How do on-demand connectivity tests work?
0:27 What is Config Context and how does AI Advisor use it?
0:39 How does SSH command access for device diagnostics work?
0:57 Why does AI Advisor unify diagnostics with telemetry?
1:08 Kentik Network Intelligence
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📰 Blog: Accelerating MTTR with Faster Root Cause Diagnosis
https://www.kentik.com/blog/accelerating-mttr-faster-root-cause-diagnosis-ai-advisor/
🤖 Kentik AI Advisor
https://www.kentik.com/product/ai-advisor/
🛠️ Kentik Network Monitoring System (NMS)
https://www.kentik.com/product/network-monitoring-system/
📊 Kentik Network Intelligence Platform
https://www.kentik.com/product/kentik-platform/
📰 Beyond Observability: Why Network Intelligence Will Make Traditional Network Management Obsolete
https://www.kentik.com/blog/network-intelligence/
🎬 Introducing Kentik AI Advisor
https://www.kentik.com/resources/introducing-kentik-ai-advisor/
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🔗 See Kentik in action: https://www.kentik.com/get-demo/
─── ABOUT KENTIK ───
Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. We help network, cloud, and platform engineers design, operate, and protect their networks at scale — across data centers, cloud, internet, and edge — with deep telemetry, AI-powered analysis, and the context engineers need to move from alert to answer fast.
🔗 Website: https://www.kentik.com
🔗 Blog: https://www.kentik.com/blog
🔗 Kentipedia: https://www.kentik.com/kentipedia
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