PeeringDB: tweaks and goodies
Following through with the recent release of our PeeringDB integration, we've sat with our users and collected their feedback, which lead to a few granular improvements – read on!
Access PeeringDB records from any ASN anywhere in Kentik Portal
In a lot of places in the Kentik portal, we're displaying ASNs: Data Explorer queries, Network Explorer, Kentik Market Intelligence, etc...There's a common set of actions users always want to perform when it comes to an ASN: look at their footprint via PeeringDB, look at their ranking in a specific market via KMI, and so on.
We've altered the way we displayed these ASNs in the product so that you can always get to PeeringDB or KMI in a click, see for yourself:
Making PeeringDB easier to map with Kentik Sites
As we watched users configuring their PeeringDB mappings to Kentik Sites, we noticed that oftentimes, they didn't know the exact PeeringDB facility name to look for, and more than anything referred to them by their address. The lookup field in the Site mapping functionality in "Settings > Manage Sites" now displays the address and will also autocomplete based on users' address input, see below: