In the last couple of months, we announced VRF Support Phase 1 and Phase 2.

• Phase 1 enabled VRF awareness for Cisco L3VPN, Cisco VRF-lite, and Juniper L3VPN. There are eight new dimensions associated with phase 1 VRF support: source and destination VRF Name, VRF Route Distinguisher, VRF Route Target, and VRF Extended Route Distinguisher.
• Phase 2: Enabled VRF dimensions in alerting policies, and an API for managing VRF attributes.

Now in Phase 3, we’ve added a new capability that really sets Kentik apart: per-VRF correlation of traffic with BGP routing data. This gives customers complete visibility into end-to-end traffic flows across L3VPN topologies, including BGP paths and Ultimate Exit attributes.

A quick recap on Kentik’s patented Ultimate Exit technology: Ultimate Exit enables end-to-end network visibility by tagging traffic at the point of ingress with egress attributes like Site, Device, Interface and more. This enables engineering, architecture and product teams to cut costs (e.g., peering) and to more accurately estimate the cost of carrying any set of traffic for any given customer. For more information about Ultimate Exit, please refer to this blog post, or the Using Ultimate Exit topic in Kentik Knowledge Base.

Examples of VRF Support

The following examples show how traffic in the VRF named “acme” enters and exits the network. VRF dimensions can be combined with any other dimension to uncover additional detail.

For more VRF visibility support information, please see VRF Dimensions in the Knowledge Base, or contact our Customer Success team.