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By Doug Madory
This post analyzes the technical details of the BGP hijack against Softaculous Ltd, the company behind the Softaculous auto-installer and the Virtualizor VM management platform. The hijack enabled an attacker to fraudulently obtain a TLS certificate and use it to deliver a malicious Virtualizor update to a portion of the company’s customer base.
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By Steve Stover
Securing distributed networks and maintaining regulatory compliance is often manual, expertise-heavy work of configuring alert policies. Kentik Protect now includes additional pre-configured, production-ready Alert Policy Templates across three categories: outbound security and DDoS, carpet bombing defense, and geopolitical compliance monitoring.
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By Scott Harrell
Discover how Kentik and Infoblox combine network observability, authoritative network data and AI-driven operations to simplify hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure.
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By Lauren Basile
Generative AI has quickly emerged as a distinct over-the-top (OTT) traffic category, yet service providers have lacked the visibility to track it. Kentik now identifies traffic from 35+ AI services across 28 providers, showing operators how it enters their networks, where it’s growing, and what it costs to deliver.
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By Doug Madory
Long a laggard in RPKI adoption, China has dramatically increased its ROA coverage from 4% to 81% since April, signaling a major commitment to securing the internet’s routing system. This post explores the dramatic shift marking a significant milestone in global routing security, helping to protect networks from BGP routing mishaps that cause internet disruptions.
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By Avi Freedman
Kentik is excited to announce that we’ve entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Infoblox, marking the next chapter in our mission to revolutionize how networks are run. Read on for what this means for our customers, partners, and team.
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By Doug Madory
The World Cup may be the most-watched event in media history — so what does it look like from inside the network? We dug into ISP traffic data to reveal how Fox Sports peaks during US games, why second halves usually win, and how traffic flows shift for entire nations like Brazil and Iran when their team takes the field.
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By Gavin Hower
Gavin joined Kentik’s People Ops team less than a year ago, so when April brought his first team offsite and his first HR conference in San Diego, it was a lot of firsts at once. He writes about meeting his colleagues face to face for the first time, what he took away from HRA 26, and his new appreciation for tapirs.
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By Doug Madory
Yesterday’s leak of a BGP hijack intended to block Telegram in India is the latest routing mishap best described as intentional, but also accidental — a pattern dating back to Pakistan Telecom’s infamous hijack of YouTube in 2008, in which a domestic block escaped containment and disrupted the service worldwide.
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By Doug Madory
OTT data from early 2026 shows streaming hierarchies holding steady while AI platforms reshuffled rapidly. Claude has substantially increased traffic since January, overtaking Gemini, and is on pace to challenge ChatGPT by fall. Doug Madory digs into the data in this new analysis.
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By Kentik
What does "good" actually look like for a fiber-to-the-home network? According to two of the people who build them, it looks like nothing at all. No complaints. No support calls. No coffee-talk the next morning about the stream that buffered. Just a light switch that turns all the way on, every time.
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By Kentik
Most monitoring tells you whether a service is up. Network synthetic monitoring tells you what the experience looks like from where your users actually are — and where on the network path a problem lives.
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By Kentik
Hear how Kentik uses AI to validate AI and catch 90%+ of bad networking answers before users ever see them.
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By Kentik
In 2026, the best network monitoring tools are Kentik, Datadog, SolarWinds NPM, LogicMonitor, Cisco ThousandEyes, Dynatrace, Auvik, Paessler PRTG, ManageEngine OpManager, Zabbix, OpenNMS, and WhatsUp Gold — spanning four overlapping categories: network intelligence platforms, full-stack observability, digital experience monitoring (DEM), and traditional network performance monitoring (NPM), including open-source tools.
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By Kentik
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.
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By Kentik
LLMs have sucked all the oxygen out of the AI conversation — but AI is much more than just LLMs, and network engineers have been using AI techniques (machine learning, statistics, fuzzy logic, expert systems, neural networks) for decades. So what should LLMs be doing in network operations, what shouldn't they be doing, and how do agentic AI architectures fit in?
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By Kentik
Why do network and infrastructure teams at leading enterprises including Canva, Dropbox, Google ConocoPhillips, and ServiceNow choose Kentik? In their own words, customers describe epic cost savings, dramatic return on investment, and blockbuster efficiency improvements that only Kentik can deliver. Learn why Kentik is the must-see network intelligence solution any enterprise that depends on reliable connectivity.
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By Kentik
"We pay less in transit IP costs today than we did when we turned up Kentik. Our cost per Mbps is lowered over the years — and our traffic is seven times what it was when we started." — Michael Leclaire, MetroNet.
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By Kentik
Your outdated network monitoring tools don't cut it. You already know that. But what can you do for your corporate network to keep pace? This ebook covers ten aspects of how network observability can: Network observability is the way to modernize. This ebook explains how.
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By Kentik
Written by one of the foremost experts in networking, it explores the challenges of running a healthy, secure, high-performance network in a time when the "network" isn't any one thing and it certainly isn't in our control.
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By Kentik
It's easy to get caught flat-footed on things like collecting logs and metrics at cloud-scale, making sense of cloud network performance and health using old-school data like port numbers and IP addresses, and automating processes like troubleshooting and remediation when you don't own the underlying infrastructure.
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By Kentik
Top 3 gotchas in AWS, and how network observability helps you avoid them As you transition apps and services to the cloud, whether fully public or hybrid, the networking component quickly gets complicated. Your team not only has to manage on-premises networking, but also cloud networks now - which requires a different approach to handle things like VPCs and connectivity back to on-prem environments and other clouds. Poor performance and high costs can quickly hinder cloud projects from being successful.
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By Kentik
Organizations are adopting cloud in a big way. Some went whole hog right away, but most took a hybrid approach for security, compliance, or just to move more cautiously. No matter the reason, hybrid clouds can leave network pros a little, well, foggy. No longer can you see, fix, and run your network across your data center, private clouds, public clouds, and SaaS. Ai ai ai! Never fear! Read this short white paper on how to achieve network observability nirvana in your hybrid cloud.
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By Kentik
A guide to assuring performance and availability of critical services across public and hybrid clouds and the internet You're responsible for monitoring the performance and availability of critical cloud services. If your users start complaining about slow response times, it's tough to get started when you can't even see where the problem is. This is where synthetic testing comes in - to help you find problems before they affect your users. This means fewer complaints and happier customers!
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By Kentik
For the past several decades, networks have increasingly become a critical part of business operations. The global pandemic only intensified the importance of networking, with more companies and individuals taking their worlds almost entirely online. This shift also put the spotlight on the need for 24/7, always-on network connectivity.
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By Kentik
Useful tips to better plan, monitor, and troubleshoot your public cloud networking Cloud networking across a myriad of applications, clouds, and data centers can get complex. And with the rapid pace of transition to the cloud, you'll need to prepare for new concepts like VPCs, cloud interconnects, and multiple availability zones and regions. Kentik has put together a list of the top five cloud networking deployment mistakes to avoid so you can take full advantage of the cost savings and flexibility of the cloud.
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Kentik is the network observability company. Our platform is a must-have for the network front line, whether digital business, corporate IT, or service provider. Network professionals turn to the Kentik Network Observability Cloud to plan, run, and fix any network, relying on our infinite granularity, AI-driven insights, and insanely fast search.
Kentik makes sense of network, cloud, host, and container flow, internet routing, performance tests, and network metrics. We show network pros what they need to know about their network performance, health, and security to make their business-critical services shine. Networks power the world’s most valuable companies, and those companies trust Kentik.
Only with Kentik:
- See All Networks: See network data from the data center, edge, cloud, and internet. Wherever your traffic goes, we’ll suss it out.
- Collect All Telemetry: Gather network, cloud, host, and container flow, internet routing, performance tests, and network metrics.
- Query with Context: Enrich network data with information about infrastructure, apps, users, customers, geo, policies, routing, and more.
- Get Insights: Get AI-driven insights. Seeing degrading performance, possible attacks, or traffic changes early can really save you.
- Ask Anything: Ask any question, any which-a-way. Query, filter, drill, zoom, whatever. We’ll get you the answer, wicked fast.
- Take Action: Make Kentik your go-to before you take action, whether to plan, run, or fix your network.
Network traffic, routing, synthetic testing, and cloud. Now that’s smart.