We are thrilled to announce our latest innovation in network observability: Kentik NMS. Designed to revolutionize how large networks are monitored, Kentik NMS combines the best of traditional NMS with the extensibility of a metric observability platform.

All customers have access to Kentik NMS now*.

Key Features:

1. Ingest Any Metric: Collect SNMP, Streaming Telemetry, and any source that can send Influx Line Protocol (including Telegraph and GNMIc), with more collection protocols coming in the future.
2. Device Monitoring: Identify devices, monitor availability, and track KPIs like CPU, memory, interface stats, and hardware components.
3. Metrics Explorer: Explore the entire OpenConfig inspired data model, formulate precise questions, pivot grouping, and control aggregation.
4. Query Assistant✨: Use natural language to Ask Any Question with the power of AI and Large Language Models. The fastest and most intuitive way to start analyzing.
5. Correlate: Compare NMS data alongside Flow, Synthetics, and other capabilities in the Kentik Platform.
6. Routing Protocol Monitoring: Monitor routing protocols like BGP and ISIS to ensure neighborships are healthy and understand how the number of prefixes sent and received has changed over time.
7. Dashboards: Build custom dashboards so you can understand the health and performance of a specific site, region, an app, or your whole network at a glance, using data from NMS, Flow, Synthetics, and the rest of the capabilities of the Kentik Platform.
8. Alerts: Configure simple state alerts or define advanced threshold alerts using the power of Metrics Explorer and baselines.
9. Extensibility: Have a special use case? With Collection Profiles you can configure collection of brand new data points from any supported collection protocol, do basic adjustments with built in transformers, or advanced adjustments using Starlark, a Python based scripting language. Display the results on dashboards and generate alerts as required.
10. Kentik Agent: Deploy one or many high-throughput agents to collect data. Agent updates are automated and seamless, just like updates to the Portal.
11. Real time monitoring: Collect data as fast as once a second, and stream it in real time to the browser. New data points go from the device being monitored to your browser in seconds.

*Customers with a Kentik Platform Essentials license get 100 Metrics Per Second (MPS), enough to monitor 3 to 10 network devices. Customers with Pro or Premier get 250 MPS, enough to monitor 8 to 25 network devices. 

This capacity lets all Kentik customers start using Kentik NMS today at no additional cost. For additional capacity, contact your Kentik account team.

A big thank you goes out to the customers who piloted Kentik NMS for the last 6 months and the 20 customers in Private Release, testing Kentik NMS for the last 3 months. These customers have provided invaluable feedback and tested NMS in production networks to get it ready for you!

Get started by navigating to Network Monitoring System in the main nav. Once you have a linux VM or Docker environment to host your collector, it takes about 5 minutes to deploy the collector, start a discovery, and begin seeing the first of your devices in Kentik NMS.

To learn more about Kentik NMS, check out our website. To dig into the technical details and learn more about using Kentik NMS, check out the Knowledge Base. If you have questions, would like to see a demo, or would like hands on help to deploy Kentik NMS in your environment, contact your Kentik account team.

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