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ImprovementHybrid CloudKentik Map
3 years ago

Cloud: December 2021 updates

As usual, our Cloud Product team turned around a ton of great enhancements to the Kentik Cloud and Map products over the month of December 2021. More than ever, Kentik goes one step closer from being the only and most complete Hybrid Cloud observability solution out there. See for yourself.


Weather Map improvements

This month saw one of the largest updates to the Weather Map yet. In this release we’ve incorporated several new features worth discussing. We added layers that allow users to view utilization and/or health data into their map, along with a nifty layer selector:

Layer Selector

Utilization layer

A major use case for Weather Map in ISPs and large backbone networks is to assist users in performing capacity planning exercises. In order to accomplish this, we needed to color the map based on interface utilization rather than total bytes. This means that our new map breaks down the interface utilization of a single interface or an aggregated bundle and buckets these interfaces into 10 groups of increasing utilization.

We also needed to add in support for interface bundling as well as support visually aggregated interfaces when more than one link connects a site cluster to another site or another cluster. To support this, we use the backend attributes that we poll from our customer’s SNMP data to determine if an interface is configured as part of a bundle or is operating as a single interface.

If a link is drawn between two site clusters, we’ll aggregate the bandwidth over both links and calculate the total utilization on the fly:

When a user clicks on this link, the system allows them to choose which link they’d like to focus on:

Weather Map sidebar improvements

We’ve also added in sidebar improvements that make selections of Sites and Links easier. Consider the following example. A user has clicked on the 3 site cluster in the Chicago region on the Kentik map:

The sidebar now opens up with a running count of the sites and links interconnecting the sites.

Expanding these elements allows to interactively browse the map:

Health Layer

We have also started to resurface health on the Weather Map. We started by adding health into the cluster popovers as such:

Of course, we also show the site health on the canvas and sidebar as well. Here we see an unhealthy ORD1 site on the canvas:

And a list of all of the sites within a view color-coded by health in the sidebar:

You will notice that we also now color links by health. We currently have two link-health states — down and degraded:

Down indicates that the router that originates or terminates a link has reported an ifOperStatus of DOWN or administratively shut down, while Degraded state means that the system is reporting errors.

Mini-map site topology

A popular request we’ve heard is to show a user’s site topology without having to load the entire site view. We now show the site topology in the sidebar itself. This is useful for getting at-a-glance understandings of how sites are constructed and is a step closer to our next iteration which allows users to see the devices that connect to other sites directly on the Weather Map canvas.


Avatar of authorChristoph Pfister