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Kentik pros and cons

Vendor: Kentik
4.5 out of 5

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PROS

Kentik provides excellent real-time visibility across network infrastructure, unmatched by any other tool.
The API functionality facilitates easy query setup, benefiting users without requiring deep expertise.
Users appreciate Kentik's ability to optimize connectivity by analyzing traffic flows and patterns.
Network visibility significantly improves, allowing engineering teams to monitor traffic effectively.
Kentik enhances cybersecurity efforts by providing detailed network activity insights.

CONS

Pricing, setup costs, and licensing are perceived as quite high.
The API's usability has room for improvement and is considered complex.
There's a desire for better integrations from network flow data to application performance.
The detection of anomalies is not as effective with real network problems, as proactive alerts are preferred over reactive ones.
More proactive and intelligent solutions are sought, especially in comparison to the industry trend towards AI.
 

Kentik Pros review quotes

Gcecilio - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a media company with 51-200 employees
Jul 21, 2026
Kentik has had a high positive impact on my organization; besides the cost reduction, it has been possible to perform troubleshooting more effectively, and also regarding DDoS-related attacks.
TR
Epicor Engineer at Sunway Group
Jul 20, 2026
Compared to PRTG, Kentik's real-time network monitoring features are definitely superior.
Dmartins Martins - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Analyst at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Jul 15, 2026
Kentik has had a positive impact on my organization in terms of our network visibility because we leave our dashboard on a display screen, where the entire engineering team can see it.
Learn what your peers think about Kentik. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2026.
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ADRIANA SALDARRIAGA TOBON - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at IFX NEtworks
Jan 31, 2025
The most important feature is cybersecurity.
reviewer2695314 - PeerSpot reviewer
BDM at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Apr 24, 2025
Kentik excels in telemetry within data centers and works well in multi-vendor environments.
SS
Network Engineer III at Fortanix
Jun 2, 2025
Overall, I would give Kentik nine out of ten stars.
Ahmad Mohd Fahmin - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Finther Tecnologica
Aug 12, 2024
Monitoring operational efficiency is easy.
SM
Marketing Manager at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
May 17, 2023
It offers a simple yet powerful feature of classifying applications, going beyond basic statistics.
reviewer1194984 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Backbone Engineering at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 25, 2019
I really love the Data Explorer. I use it all the time to go in and craft exactly what I need to see. I'm able to then take that story and explain it to the executives. I've done that a couple of times and it is helpful.
reviewer1250580 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director - Site Reliability Engineering at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 15, 2019
One of the valuable features is the intuitive nature of building out reports, and then triggering actions based on specific metrics from those reports. It has a really good UI and the ability to surface data through the reporting functions is pretty good. That's helped a lot in the security space.
 

Kentik Cons review quotes

Gcecilio - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a media company with 51-200 employees
Jul 21, 2026
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing shows that the prices are quite high.
TR
Epicor Engineer at Sunway Group
Jul 20, 2026
Currently, the way I'm configuring it uses reactive alerts, which means alerts are triggered when an issue occurs. I would prefer more proactive alerts in the future.
Dmartins Martins - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Analyst at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Jul 15, 2026
Kentik can be improved in terms of languages, and visually it could be improved a bit more as well.
Learn what your peers think about Kentik. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2026.
907,731 professionals have used our research since 2012.
ADRIANA SALDARRIAGA TOBON - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at IFX NEtworks
Jan 31, 2025
The product could strive for more improvements to become closer to perfect.
reviewer2695314 - PeerSpot reviewer
BDM at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Apr 24, 2025
In recent months, I've noticed that while the industry is trending towards AI, Kentik has room for improvement in this area.
SS
Network Engineer III at Fortanix
Jun 2, 2025
We had faced some issues during an outage and were not able to get the desired results from Kentik tools. It took time to resolve these issues, which is why I give them eight points.
Ahmad Mohd Fahmin - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Finther Tecnologica
Aug 12, 2024
Sometimes, the tool has complications, so we must deal with the additional support from the tool's end.
SM
Marketing Manager at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
May 17, 2023
I consider the pricing model as an area for improvement.
reviewer1194984 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Backbone Engineering at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 25, 2019
I've checked out the V4 version of the interface and it's still a little bit clunky for me to use. I still go back to the old interface. That's definitely one that they still need to work on. It doesn't seem like everything that you get in the V3, the older interface, is there. For instance, I was trying to add a user or do the administrative tasks in V4, and I couldn't figure out where I was supposed to do that.
reviewer1250580 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director - Site Reliability Engineering at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 15, 2019
I believe they're already working on this, but I would love for them to create better integrations from network flow data to application performance — tracing — so that we could overlay that data more readily. With more companies going hybrid, flow logs and flow data, whether it be VPC or on-prem, matched with application performance and trace data, is pretty important.