Kentik announced the general
availability of Kentik Kube, the industry's first solution to reveal how
Kubernetes traffic routes through organizations' data centers, clouds,
and the internet.
Kentik
Kube gives network, cloud, and infrastructure engineers detailed
network traffic and performance visibility, both inside and among their
Kubernetes clusters, so they can quickly detect and solve network
problems, surface anomalies and compliance issues, and identify outliers
related to network traffic costs.
Key benefits of Kentik Kube:
- Ensure Kubernetes performance:
Discover which services and pods are experiencing network delays in
order to troubleshoot and fix problems faster. Configure alert policies
to proactively find high latency nodes, pods, workloads, or services.
- Optimize costs:
Quickly detect traffic changes tied to new deployments or
misconfigurations before egress, inter-region transfer, and gateway
charges get out of control.
- Total Infrastructure Visibility:
Know which pods were deployed on which nodes - even historically. See
which pods and services are communicating with other clusters,
non-Kubernetes infrastructure, or the Internet. Quickly detect top
talkers. Identify Kubernetes clusters sending traffic to embargoed
countries or unapproved external destinations.
"With
Kentik Kube, Kubernetes is no longer a black box for network teams,"
said Christoph Pfister, Chief Product Officer at Kentik. "Now enterprise
infrastructure engineers can quickly understand Kubernetes traffic -
from transit costs, to performance problems, to embargoed communications
- and see how it flows through the internet and their entire hybrid
network infrastructure."
Kentik
Kube collects metadata across Kubernetes pods, clusters, and services -
combined with telemetry from a lightweight eBPF agent - for
unparalleled breadth and depth of network observability. This dataset,
coupled with Kentik's advanced analytics engine, allows infrastructure
and platform teams to move faster, reduce incident resolution times, and
answer critical questions about the health and performance of their
overall network.