Kentik has introduced important new health features aimed at hybrid IT organizations. Site Health, Device Health, and Interface Health provide an at-a-glance easy indicator of how your network, devices, and applications are performing. They are now a standard offering in the Network Management product.

For customers that monitor all their global hybrid IT infrastructure, it is vitally important to separate what is healthy from what is not healthy. Engineers simply do not have enough time in the day to look at all the metrics. Kentik’s new health capabilities classify a base layer of metrics into Healthy, Warning, or Critical status and display the status in our next-generation Network Maps and Network Explorer.

We are monitoring network devices and interface metrics via SNMP. Health values available include:

• Site Health
  Derived from the devices and interfaces in the site
  
  
• Device Health
  Derived from the device metrics and interface metrics on this device
  • Device Availability
    Whether metrics are available for this device
  • Device Metrics:
    • CPU Utilization
    • Memory Utilization
      
      
• Interface Health
  Derived from the interface metrics for this interface
  • Interface Availability
    Whether metrics are available for this interface
  • Interface Metrics
    • Input Interface Utilization
    • Output Interface Utilization