Last month, Kentik introduced Hybrid Map, allowing teams to view the entirety of their network infrastructures, dive deep where needed, assess quickly, solve problems and gain insights immediately. You can now visualize and manage interactions within and between on-prem infrastructure, cloud infrastructure from Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, as well as internet platforms and services — all in a single, unified view.

Kentik Hybrid Map allows you to simultaneously:

• Understand AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM VPC flow logs and inter-service dependencies
• Observe site topology and architecture (spine/leaf and tiers), device metrics (CPU, memory, interface utilization), and north-south and east-west traffic
• Visualize SD-WAN overlay, and WAN underlay transport utilization and performance
• Quickly find and resolve problems by viewing network performance and utilization data from the data center to clouds, other sites/data centers, and internet sites
• Visually interact with the network, dive deep, and quickly identify problems with instant insights
• React quickly to network conditions and discover which devices are experiencing CPU, memory, interface, or traffic anomalies

Since the initial release of Hybrid Map, Kentik’s updated release now includes visual directionality. This latest release covers inter-block flows (i.e., flows between a VPC and the internet, or between an on-prem site and an internet AS, for example), and directionality between sites and devices in the arc and chord layouts.

Users can now go to the Hybrid Map to see their traffic in context with health across all devices. The backend service that collects, stores, and assesses the metrics also looks at a device’s CPU, memory, and interface utilization statistics to determine health. The device layout includes CPU and memory utilization views, and Healthy, Warning, or Critical status up to the site level.

Users can now drill into cloud infrastructure from the Hybrid Map. Users can quickly see traffic between regions, VPCs, and subnets and traffic from the cloud to on-prem infrastructure and origin networks for AWS, GCP, and Azure. We’ve also released an excellent backend service that makes these views blazing fast.

New features include:

• Cloud views that enable users to drill into their clouds and see traffic from the region, zone, and VPC down to the subnets inside
• Popover controls for all of the new views, including readability improvements
• Health indicators across the maps, consuming health data from the new health service
• Improvements to the algorithm that determines connections between the cloud/internet blocks and the on-prem block
• New popover views that allow users to view all traffic through sites, devices and interfaces