The Kentik Network Observability Platform provides the most comprehensive data across all public, private, and hybrid networking environments, including flow records, streaming telemetry, SNMP data, device configurations, and synthetic performance metrics. 

With Kentik Firehose, you can now send all this data from Kentik into your application monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, Splunk, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, AWS S3, etc.), and publishing platforms (e.g., Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub, etc.).

For further information see the Kentik Firehose Solution Overview. 

Firehose closes the network observability gap and lets you uncover insights, and effectively troubleshoot your apps with full context and data about your networks included in the tools you use.

Examples of exportable data include:

• Flow data from NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX
• VPC flow logs from all major public clouds
• Streaming telemetry from all major vendors (Juniper, Cisco, Arista)
• SNMP device metrics (CPU, memory, network interface)
• Synthetic measurements
• Internet, ISPs, CDNs
• Correlated and context enriched data from the customer’s application, infrastructure, geo-location, business environment, and other customer-defined dimensions

Data formats include:

• Output formats: JSON, NetFlow, AVRO, InfluxDB line protocol, Prometheus endpoint
• Compression algorithm: none, gzip, snappy, null, deflate
• Data sinks: .Net, Kafka, Kentik, stdout, file, New Relic, HTTP, Splunk, and more coming
• Rollups groups: type, metric, dimension 1, dimension 2, …, dimension n.
• Filters: string, src_addr, ==, 12.0.1.2

Customers are using Kentik Firehose to:

• Troubleshoot performance in complex application environments. Network data from Kentik allows teams to understand application performance in context.
• Combine network and infrastructure data all in one place for analysis and storage. IT teams use Firehose to send data to other systems like data lakes, with formats like JSON and AVRO. This data enables more cost-effective storage and the ability to perform complex analysis, with the data all in a single place.
• Enhance cross-domain analytics to detect threats. Security and risk management teams can correlate Kentik’s Firehose data to rapidly detect, analyze, investigate, and actively respond to threats. Using data like geolocation and network flow allows for a better understanding and easier identification of threats.