With the increasing complexity and significance of networks, businesses worldwide are seeking greater intelligence and actionable insights to enhance their network infrastructure, connected resources, and digital experiences. Concurrently, the amount of network data accessible to enterprises is rapidly expanding, as connections, traffic volumes, active threats, and intricate exchanges continue to rise.
Much of this data requires a response from the network team, who are already constrained with the backlog of daily, manual network changes, making it difficult to find time to act on anything new.
Optimize the Performance & Security of Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Networks with Itential & Kentik
With Kentik’s advanced network observability platform combined with Itential’s network-centric automation and orchestration platform, netops teams can enable closed-loop automation, to act on any event, from security risks to network optimization, and remediate the situation resulting in more accurate and efficient operations, engineering, and support for enterprise networks and IT.
Network Automation & Orchestration
Network Observability & Monitoring
Automate Changes Across All Your infrastructure
Vendor agnostic solution that enables network teams to easily integrate with any network solution, physical or cloud, in order to efficiently automate changes across different network domains.
Visibility to All Networks
See network data from the data center, edge, cloud, and internet. Wherever your traffic goes, we’ll shed a light on it.
Codeless Integrations to Any System
Using vendor published API documentation, customers can create integrations with any IT system in your environment today or tomorrow.
A View of All Telemetry
Gather network, cloud, host, and container flow, internet routing, performance tests, and network metrics.
Automate Confidently with Pre-Check, Post-Check, & Configuration Compliance
Enable your network team to build automation workflows that include robust pre-check and post-check processes to ensure network changes are made safely, and validate that any changes adhere to the current standards.
The Ability to Query With Context
Enrich network data with information about infrastructure, apps, users, customers, geo, policies, routing – even the PeeringDB data set.
Enable Secure Closed-Loop Automation & Orchestration
Integrate with security, telemetry, & event streaming platforms to trigger automations that can immediately gather data, open incident tickets, notify teams, and remediate network and security incidents.
AI-Driven Insights
Seeing degrading performance, possible attacks, or traffic changes early can really save you.
Deliver Self-Service Networking to IT & App Teams
Securely publish and expose your end-to-end automations for use by end users in self-service catalogs inside the Itential platform or within other platforms like ServiceNow.
Ask Any Question, Any Which-a-Way
Query, filter, drill, zoom, whatever. We’ll get you the answer, wicked fast. The data and insights you need to take action to plan, run, or fix your network.
How Itential & Kentik Work Together
Capitalizing on these capabilities, the integration of Itential and Kentik enables network teams to build automations that can immediately respond to events and alarms generated by the Kentik observability platform. These automations can automatically make changes to the network in real time for high priority incidents and notify teams of these changes in your messaging and change request systems.
Technology Integration
Kentik gives network teams full visibility of network status by collecting data from actual and test traffic from all parts of the network and providing insights on that data.
Itential enables the entire network team to participate in automating their network domains, integrating with the tools and solutions they already have, and orchestrating end to end processes.
By integrating these two platforms at the API level, network teams can build automations that utilize Kentik’s observability, insights, and alerting features and automate changes to any network infrastructure along with orchestrating IT systems like IPAM, ITSM, and sources of truth.
Itential + Kentik Use Cases
- Automated remediation of AWS blocked traffic alerts.
- Automated route optimization changes based on network performance alerts.
- Onboarding of devices from NetBox Inventory to Kentik for monitoring.
- Automated device deployment with onboarding to Kentik for monitoring.
Itential & Kentik Joint Benefits
100% as-a-Service
Itential’s industry leading SaaS automation platform and Kentik’s observability platform, provide turnkey business outcomes, on-demand resources, and flexible consumption.
Deep Integration Between Kentik & Itential
Both platforms are integrated at the API level for the highest level of integration flexibility for customers allowing automations to operate seamlessly across cloud, data center, security, and IT systems.
Leverage Closed-Loop Automation to Respond to Alerts in Real Time
Immediately respond to alerts using automations that can remediate security or performance issues, open and update incident response tickets, and notify teams of the situation in real-time.
Isolate & Remediate Network Problems More Efficiently
Identify the root cause that is impacting network performance and respond to it using an automation that can gather data, report findings, and make network changes following the network team’s best practices.
Detect & Protect Against Network Attacks
Detect network-based attacks with Kentik and instantly shut down the attack vector with automations created by the network or security team, dramatically reducing the impact on your service and your customers.
Explore Kentik in the Itential Automation Marketplace
Itential provides free, modular pre-built components that can be leveraged with Kentik.
Pre-Built Adapters
Pre-Built Workflows
AWS Blocked Traffic Event
Device Flow Test
Device Onboarding
Itential is the only automation platform built to support both network and cloud infrastructure, making it easy for enterprise organizations to reduce manual operations, deliver services faster, simplify network change management and maintain security with standardized configuration and compliance. The Itential Automation Platform is a low-code solution that seamlessly connects IT systems with network technologies for rapidly designing and deploying end-to-end network automation workflows.
Kentik is the only SaaS network observability solution that incorporates the monitoring of actual and test traffic. All network data is stored and accessed from the one integrated database for ease of use and flexible queries.