An Intellyx Brain Candy Update
Since we last covered Kentik in August 2018, the company has deepened its network observability story.
Many vendors provide observability (or at least, monitoring) for on-premises networks. Kentik differentiates itself by adding observability capabilities for networks in public clouds.
Kentik leverages NetFlow, an established approach and associated protocol for obtaining information from network equipment. It also offers synthetic network testing that can uncover networking issues without impacting end-users.
To support cloud-native networking, Kentik leverages the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF), a feature built into the kernel of all modern Linux distributions to implement Kubernetes identity directly in the Linux kernel.
eBPF gives Kentik the ability to provide network observability at scale across containers, pods, and clusters in Kubernetes deployments.
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