Kentik

Kentik is a network intelligence platform for designing, operating and protecting infrastructure at scale, and it has recently joined Infoblox. That ownership change is worth noting for a multi-year evaluation, particularly around how it will sit alongside Infoblox's DNS and IP address management portfolio.

Its positioning centres on AI infrastructure, and the customer profile supports that: the vendor states 8 out of 10 of the world's largest enterprise AI companies use it, with ServiceNow quoted directly. AI infrastructure has genuinely different network requirements from conventional enterprise IT, since training workloads generate sustained high-volume east-west traffic where ultra low latency and consistent reliability from multi-cloud to edge determine whether expensive GPU capacity sits idle waiting on the network.

Kentik AI Advisor is the current headline, and the claimed benefit is specific enough to test: reducing investigation time by 96 percent, and telling a network team whether to escalate to a provider or implement a local configuration change. That escalate-or-fix decision is exactly where network troubleshooting time is lost, since the wrong choice means either waiting on a provider who is not at fault or attempting local fixes for an upstream problem. The published example queries are concrete, such as analysing a traffic spike on a specific interface and determining whether it is a DDoS attack or a legitimate burst.

Distinct capabilities are addressed for network teams, cloud and infrastructure teams, with cloud egress cost minimisation called out, reflecting that cloud networking is now a cost management problem as much as a performance one. Network capacity planning is a named solution. Pricing is not published.