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AutoCon2 gathered network automation professionals in Denver for three days of insights, workshops, and discussions on the future of automation. Justin Ryburn, Kentik Field CTO, shares his key takeaways, highlights, and why this conference stands out as a top destination for the network automation community.

When network issues strike, every second matters. Latency or packet loss can frustrate users and hurt revenue. Learn how Kentik AI uses natural language to speed up troubleshooting and isolate problems quickly.

AWS VPC flow Logs and Azure NSG flow Logs offer network traffic visibility with different scopes and formats, but both are essential for multi-cloud network management and security. Unified network observability solutions analyze both in one place to provide comprehensive insights across clouds.

Balancing cost efficiency and high performance in cloud networks is a constant challenge, especially when misconfigurations or inefficient routing lead to inflated costs or degraded performance. Learn how Kentik Journeys simplifies traffic analysis, helping cloud engineers identify inefficiencies like unnecessary Transit Gateway routing.

In today’s multi-cloud landscape, maintaining smooth and reliable connectivity requires complete visibility into cloud networks. With Kentik, network and cloud engineers gain the tools to monitor, visualize, and optimize Azure traffic flows, from ExpressRoute circuits to application performance, ensuring efficient and proactive operations.

Kentik Journeys is an AI-powered user experience that helps you investigate your network. It combines knowledge about your network with deep GenAI integration to help you answer network questions and solve problems faster than ever. Since launch, we’ve been innovating on Journeys’ capabilities and skills with customer feedback. Here’s a peek at what’s new.

We are excited to share that Kentik has been named a Value Leader in EMA’s 2024 Radar Report for Network Operations Observability. This recognition highlights our continued commitment to building an AI-powered, end-to-end observability platform for modern networks, helping network and cloud teams optimize their infrastructures for availability, performance, cost-efficiency, and security.

On Saturday, November 2, the wildly popular video game Fortnite released its latest game update: Fortnite Chapter 2 Remix. The result was a surge of traffic as gaming platforms around the world downloaded the latest update for the seven-year-old game. Doug Madory looks at how the resulting traffic surge can be analyzed using Kentik’s OTT Service Tracking.

Balancing cost, performance, and security in cloud infrastructure is challenging, but cloud-mature companies are proving it’s possible to optimize without compromise — here’s how they do it.

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Kentik’s Cloud Latency Map, a public service that uses Kentik Synthetics to continuously measure latency between the regions of the biggest cloud providers.