Kentik
Kentik is a network intelligence and observability platform for modern infrastructure teams. It helps organizations collect and analyze network telemetry across data centers, cloud, edge and enterprise environments to improve performance, reliability, cost efficiency and security.
At a Glance
- Large enterprises
- Digital businesses and web-scale companies
- Cloud and infrastructure teams
- Internet service providers, telecoms and carriers
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AI Tools by Kentik
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Kentik
Network Observability and Traffic Analysis
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Products & Services
Cloud platform combining network telemetry, flow and routing analysis, device and capacity data, dashboards, alerting, APIs and enriched data processing.
Agentic AI assistant that reasons over Kentik telemetry, executes multi-step investigations, explains its evidence and recommends actions for troubleshooting, capacity, cost, performance and security.
Network monitoring system for up/down status, interface statistics, hardware components, routing protocols and streaming telemetry.
Cloud and hybrid-network visibility, migration analysis, cloud-path troubleshooting, routing analytics, security validation and cost/performance optimization.
Market Position
Kentik positions itself as a network-intelligence layer rather than a general application-observability tool: it combines high-scale flow, routing, cloud-path, device and synthetic data with network-specific analytics and AI-guided investigation. Common alternatives and competitors include Cisco ThousandEyes, Datadog, Dynatrace, SolarWinds, NETSCOUT, LogicMonitor, Grafana-based stacks, Splunk and traditional network-monitoring platforms; Kentik emphasizes depth of network visibility, multi-cloud coverage and network-operator workflows.
Leadership
Founders
Avi Freedman
Network operator and technologist; Kentik's co-founder and CEO. He describes having been a frustrated network operator and was previously associated with Akamai.
Ian Applegate
Co-founder and network/big-data technologist; part of the founding team that built Kentik (then CloudHelix) after working in large-scale infrastructure environments.
Ian Pye
Co-founder and Chief Scientist; a network and big-data technologist with experience associated with Cloudflare and large-scale distributed systems.
Justin Biegel
Co-founder and COO; joined the initial team shortly after formation and took responsibility for customer outreach.
Executive Team
Avi Freedman
Co-founder, CEO
Network operator and technologist; co-founded Kentik.
Justin Biegel
Co-founder, COO
Co-founded Kentik and led customer outreach before becoming COO.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Avi Freedman and colleagues saw that network operators were forced to stitch together slow, fragmented tools or build their own systems to ingest, store and analyze high-resolution flow data. They started Kentik as CloudHelix in 2014 to provide a scalable, cloud-hosted, real-time infrastructure data platform with long-term retention, DDoS/anomaly detection and open access through a portal and API; the company later launched Kentik Detect.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Enterprise SaaS subscriptions sold on annual contracts, with pricing based on platform edition, flow-per-second capacity, users, devices, synthetics credits, retention and add-ons; professional services and managed services are also available.
Pricing Tiers
30-day trial.
US pricing; includes 50 users, 1,000 included FPS, 25 devices and 2.5 million synthetics credits, with add-ons available.
Enterprise plan with 1,000 users, 1,000 included FPS, 25 devices and 5 million synthetics credits.
Target Markets
- Large enterprises
- Digital businesses and web-scale companies
- Cloud and infrastructure teams
- Internet service providers, telecoms and carriers
- Content delivery networks and OTT providers
- Network operations, engineering and security teams
- Network performance monitoring and troubleshooting
- Cloud and hybrid-cloud visibility, migration and egress-cost reduction
- Capacity planning and traffic engineering
- DDoS detection, mitigation and security investigation
- Peering, transit and interconnection optimization
- Digital experience, DNS, BGP and synthetic monitoring
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