Kentik
Company typePrivate
IndustryInternet
Founded2014; 10 years ago (2014) in San Francisco, California, United States
Founders
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States[1]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Websitekentik.com

Kentik is an American network observability, network monitoring and anomaly detection company headquartered in San Francisco, California.[2][3]

History

Kentik was founded in 2014 as CloudHelix by Co-founders Avi Freedman, Ian Applegate, Ian Pye, and Justin Biegel. The company changed its name to Kentik in 2015.[4]

Technology

Kentik's Network Observability Cloud is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product that ingests NetFlow and other network data and analyzes it to provide network monitoring and anomaly detection services for the operators of Internet-connected networks. Kentik's underlying data engine is a clustered datastore modeled on Dremel.[5] The engine collects and correlates live operational data from Internet routers and switches to produce network activity and health information.

Analysis

Since November 2020, Kentik has been the organizational home of Doug Madory's Internet routing analysis practice, previously associated with Renesys and Renesys' subsequent acquirers DynDNS and Oracle. While employed by Kentik, Madory discovered the Global Resource Systems IP address hijacking which occurred during the final hours of the Trump administration[6][7][8][9] and was the first to accurately quantify the 2021 Facebook outage, the largest communications outage in history.[10][11][12][13][14][15]

References

  1. ^ "Kentik Contact". Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  2. ^ McCormick, John (7 October 2021). "Network-Monitoring Firm Kentik Raises $40 Million in New Funding". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  3. ^ Wiggers, Kyle (7 October 2021). "Network observability startup Kentik lands $40M". VentureBeat. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  4. ^ Kerner, Sean Michael (2 July 2015). "CloudHelix, Renamed Kentik, Raises $12M for Security, Network Visibility". eWeek. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  5. ^ Hall, Susan (14 September 2016). "Kentik Is a Data Engine Modeled after Google Dremel". The New Stack. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  6. ^ Timberg, Craig (24 April 2021). "Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon's dormant IP addresses sprang to life". Washington Post. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  7. ^ Kay, Grace (1 May 2021). "4 unanswered questions about the mysterious company that began managing a big chunk of the internet minutes before Biden was sworn in". Business Insider. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  8. ^ Naraine, Ryan (29 April 2021). "Doug Madory on the mysterious AS8003 global routing story". Security Conversations.
  9. ^ Bajak, Frank (25 April 2021). "The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved". Associated Press. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  10. ^ Geer, David (16 November 2021). "What Caused the Facebook Outage?". Communications of the ACM. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  11. ^ Krebs, Brian (4 October 2021). "hat Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?". Krebs on Security.
  12. ^ "'We're sorry' says Facebook after 'epic' worldwide outage". Associated Press. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  13. ^ Evans, Pete (4 October 2021). "Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp back online after global outage". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  14. ^ Madory, Doug (5 October 2021). "Facebook's historic outage, explained". Kentik.
  15. ^ Madory, Doug (4 October 2021). "Facebook suffers global outage". Kentik. Archived from the original on October 4, 2021. Retrieved October 4, 2021.

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