Kentik
Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, and synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.www.kentik.com
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Oct 7, 2026
Herman PoppleberryHOST
That's the whole case.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Kentik, whose guide on SNMP versus streaming telemetry is the best practitioner write-up on this, says essentially every network device made in the last three decades speaks it, the brand-new data center chassis and the twenty-year-old branch router alike, which is why no realistic monitoring strategy can simply drop it.
CornHOST
And they go further.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
They do.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
One you buy, one you inherit.
CornHOST
So when does the polling cadence actually bite you?
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Microbursts? This is the example Kentik uses and is the perfect one.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Imagine a counter that's pulled every sixty seconds.
Robin GrahamGUEST
And that's most of the M&A volume that we've seen.
Robin GrahamGUEST
You know, we, we recently sold, um, a company called Kentik to Info Blocks, which is private equity backed.
Robin GrahamGUEST
Uh, that dollar value wasn't disclosed, but it was more between zero and a billion dollars in value.
Robin GrahamGUEST
Um, meaningful transaction, meaningful size business, really great outcome for the investors in that business, but I think that's exemplary of the kind of transaction that we're seeing.