Kentik Map improvements - kentik

A lot of new additions have surfaced in February 2022 in the Kentik Map UI. Amongst others, users will find: a health digest reporting function, new layers for AWS Regions and cloud backbone, as well as improvements in the map legends.

Kentik Map Health Digest

An indicator in the toolbar gives a count of issues we’ve discovered on your network and opens a popover that provides a high-level rundown. Click the View Problems button to see a list detailing the issues, then drill down to the map to see an impacted component in the context of its surrounding infrastructure.

Mousing over the new health indicator in Kentik Map will provides a high-level rundown. Clicking View Problems will provide a list and details for each issue.

The health problems list and details can be viewed by clicking View Problems.

Kentik Map Layer Selector

A new layer selector for the Kentik Map lets you choose which categories of overlays to display, including link traffic types, traffic layer types, cloud regions and backbones, traffic utilization, health, and clustering.

The new Layer Selector in Kentik Map and Weather Map lets you choose which categories of overlays to display and the popups for each allow control over the option specifics.

Kentik Map legends

The legends that identify the value ranges represented by link colors are now persistent, so it’s always easy to see what the colors mean.

The color code legend on Kentik Map is persistent.

Kentik Map AWS Regions and Backbones

A layer for AWS regions and backbones has been added to the Kentik Map.

Kentik Map now includes an overlay for AWS Cloud Regions and backbone traffic as are displayed here with AWS US West (N. California).