Kentik Market Intelligence gets a couple useful improvements added.

KMI will now let you export rankings and customer/provider lists as a CSV file.
Additionally, we've added a "density chart" on top of the KMI landing page before the ranking table.

The  KMI landing page has been updated with what we call a Density Chart: the usual table-chart we all know and love did not really convey the idea of the actual distance between consecutive networks in the ranking. This new widget has been added on top of the ranking table and places Networks on the line based on how far they are from each other in terms of KMI score.
(check out this article out if you want to understand how KMI score are computed)

Based on popular demand from our KMI customers, we've added a functionality to download the CSV data from both the landing page, and any given network's detail page:

We're happy to announce the availability of 17 new Global agents, distributed globally (8 Americas, 5 EMEA, 4 APAC) and connected to Lumen's network (AS3356). Stay tuned for even more geo locations within Lumen's network!

Building on our existing BGP monitoring capabilities – Event Tracking, Hijack Detection, Route Leak Detection and RPKI Status Check – we majorly enhanced our BGP monitoring feature set (under Synthetics) with new visualizations that track BGP Reachability and the BGP AS Path.

See the related blog posts, Introducing BGP Monitoring from Kentik and Why You Need to Monitor BGP, or watch the video (webinar) Why you should monitor BGP and where to start for useful overview information.

To get started: click Menu > Synthetics > BGP RouteViewer (we automatically pull in your AS and Prefix info for you) and click the blue  "Start Monitoring" button. 

Or go to Synthetics > Test Control Center > Add Test > BGP Monitor to create your own test

Reachability tracking

We help you track changes in the reachability of your prefixes from hundreds of vantage points all over the internet and will alert you when any of them become unreachable. You need to be sure that traffic from your ASes can make its way to your customers and the service providers you depend on.

AS path change tracking

Frequent changes in the path that BGP route announcements take between ASes can be a sign of instability. Monitoring for these changes and getting alerted as soon as they occur is a key part of ensuring service reliability.

AS path visualization

Fast troubleshooting of issues requires being able to visualize data to find trouble spots quickly. We give you a 10,000-foot view of changes in BGP routes over time — an indispensable tool!

All synthetics tests can now be run at the lower frequencies of 30 or 60 mins. Prior to this addition the lowest supported frequency was 15 mins.

These lower frequency options allow customers to monitor targets which require less aggressive monitoring and which would otherwise have been cost prohibitive to monitor at faster frequencies.

We're excited to announce 16 new Global Agents distributed globally and located in several major Broadband ISPs: AT&T, Altice (Suddenlink), Cox, Comcast, KDDI, SK Broadband, Spectrum (Charter), Vectra, Verizon and Vodafone

Page Load DOM Waterfall view

Page Load tests now include a Document Object Model (DOM) Waterfall view into how individual objects on the page have loaded. This is a per agent view accessed via Results > View Details for any Page Load test. Visibility into the DOM Waterfall lets customers identify which DOM elements are contributing the most to the overall page load time.

March 2022 marks a new beginning for our Alerting and Insights feature-sets.  Expect a more changes in the next coming month, but in the mean time, here's a taste of what's new.

Alerting and policies

Our design teams are on a mission to improve the consistency of experience and ease of use of the Kentik portal. We are taking a “common design, common experience” approach that uses common code to generate simple, intuitive and predictable controls. This should significantly improve navigation.

Let’s start with navigation where we have updated the location of Insights, Alerting and Mitigations, which reflects the most common usage.

Insights

Based on customer feedback we have separated Alerts and Insights, reducing the possibility of confusion between the two.

• Alerts are an immediate call to action.
• Insights are longer-term analytics intended to support planning, expense management and growth.

The Insights landing page presents a filtered/sorted list of individual insights. Selecting the insight will navigate to the Insight Details page.

Alerting

On the Alerting page we are now using our common table design with filtering, sorting, searching and controls that will look and feel familiar to users across the platform. The navigation path for Alerting presents a table of active alerts, also filtered, with sortable columns. Selecting the alert will expand a sidebar with the alert details. Table controls include time range filtering, status, severity, and type filters, and several specific search options.

Mitigations

The Mitigations page has been redesigned, using this same admin table pattern as we use for the Alerts, Policies, and Templates pages. Navigation to the Mitigations page is either direct from the main menu, or from a link on the Alerting page. Selecting a mitigation opens a sidebar drawer. Opening the sidebar exposes a navigation link to the Alert that triggered the mitigation.

March 2022 marks another important milestone milestone in Kentik's Hybrid Cloud observability product offering by not only releasing Azure Maps, but also  adding AWS VPC endpoint support.

Azure Map

In March we made a large leap forward in enhancing our multi-cloud observability solution. We are introducing the first version of our Kentik Map for Azure, providing a similar look and feel to the AWS map. While many concepts are the same, there are differences, for example a VPC in AWS is a VNET in Azure:

Similar to AWS, we are now showing the Azure regions including their VNETs, allowing users to click into the subnets, and display traffic and other details:

VPC Endpoint support for AWS

We now display VPC endpoints in the AWS Map as network gateways so that map users can easily view traffic to (or in some cases, from) these constructs.

March 2022 comes with a flurry of new Synthetic Monitoring feature updates. Amongst others:

• A new top-level location for the BGP route viewer page
• Multiple enhancements to the synthetics Performance Dashboard

BGP Route Viewer Page

Similar to the State of the Internet page, we have moved the BGP Route Viewer tab into a separate top-level page. We recently introduced BGP performance monitoring as part of the Kentik Network Observability Cloud, and want to give this feature more visibility as many customers requested it. If you’d like to learn more about this feature and its use cases read the blog post, Introducing BGP monitoring from Kentik.

Performance Dashboard enhancements

We continue to enhance the Performance Dashboard moving it more towards being a true dashboard. The updated widgets include: The incident log (width), the Test Status Summary pane (styling and location), the Recently Added Tests (styling and location), and Agents and Credits (styling and location).

We just introduced a new "State of the Internet Page" that helps you quickly answer the proverbial question "is it me (my network) or the Internet?"

From this newly created top-level page, you can quickly determine without having to build any complex test if any broader reachability issue outside of their reach is impacting the digital experience of your customers. We (Kentik) run tests from our global Synthetics agent fleet to various public network services and provide the data to you (our customers) for free.

This new page can be found in the navigation menu here:

Under this you'll find 3 tabs today with more planned in the future. The first measures performance of common SaaS applications that your organization uses. The second provides a quick view of the state of the common clouds (connectivity between their regions). And the third one provides uptime and availability of common DNS services.

While these measurements are from tests Kentik runs continuously from its global agents, you can customize (create your own version) of any of these from the pages, by clicking the little "customize" icon.