Kentik now offers extended network visibility to customers using the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by supporting Google VPC flow logs as a source of flow records. VPC Flow Logs are NetFlow-like metadata, generated by virtual instances in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), for the network traffic entering, exiting, or within a VPC (between VMs).

With VPC flow log support, Kentik customers can now get full visibility into network activity within GCP projects, and also between GCP and traditional on-premises data centers in hybrid cloud architectures.

The cool part about Google VPC flow logs is that very little configuration is required for existing VPC users. As depicted in the functional diagram above, all that’s needed is for you to configure VPCs in your GCP projects to send Flow Logs to a Pub/Sub topic, which Kentik subscribes to in order to pull the data. This provides agent-less visibility into all the traffic in the VPC without creating any additional instances. Once the connection is established, flow data from your cloud infrastructure is available within Kentik Detect for visualizations (like the screeenshot below) and alerting, just like data from any other source.

For additional information, please see our blog post Kentik for Google Cloud VPC Flow Logs, refer to the KB topic Kentik for Google VPC, or contact our Customer Success team.