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What the World Cup Looks Like in Internet Traffic

Jul 1, 2026 By Doug Madory In Kentik
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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Tapirs, Trainings, and Team Dinners: My First Kentik Meetup

Jun 18, 2026 By Gavin Hower In Kentik
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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When Local Blocks Go Global: The India-Telegram BGP Incident

Jun 17, 2026 By Doug Madory In Kentik
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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Shifting Streams and AI Surges: What Our Data Reveals About the OTT Landscape

Jun 1, 2026 By Doug Madory In Kentik
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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The "Single Pane of Glass" Is Dead - What Network Teams Actually Need Is Intelligence

May 21, 2026 By Justin Ryburn In Kentik
The infrastructure industry spent two decades chasing a single pane of glass. The future looks different: domain-expert AI platforms that reason deeply within their own data, connected through tool chaining when problems cross boundaries.
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Best Network Monitoring Tools for 2026 (Top 12 Compared)

May 15, 2026 By Kentik In 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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AI Diagnostics in Kentik NMS (Network Monitoring System)

May 4, 2026 By Kentik In 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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