Kentik, a leader in network intelligence, has launched Kentik AI Advisor. This new AI understands enterprise and service-provider networks deeply. This new solution analyzes data and offers expert advice. It helps design, operate, and protect infrastructure effectively, even at large scales.
Network teams are increasingly stretched thin, and industry data suggests that nearly a quarter of U.S. network engineers may retire soon. Kentik AI Advisor addresses this talent crunch by driving significant efficiency across hybrid infrastructure, cloud, and network teams. It interprets user intent, generates investigation plans using rich telemetry, and executes them reliably and securely.
At the heart of AI Advisor is the Kentik Data Engine, a proprietary, ultra-scalable platform capable of ingesting over a trillion telemetry points per day. This unified data layer brings together cloud, device, flow, and internet metadata. By combining this data with advanced large language models (LLMs) and Kentik’s network expertise, AI Advisor reasons about intent, designs multi-step investigations, and explains its thinking at every step.
The key benefits of Kentik AI Advisor include:
- Cost Optimization: It automatically identifies opportunities to lower costs across on-premises and cloud environments from reducing VPC and transit spending to optimizing peering and interconnects, and assessing expensive routes.
- Capacity Planning: By analyzing utilization trends and forecasting run-out scenarios, it provides data-driven, proactive recommendations for infrastructure investments instead of reactive guesswork.
- Accelerated Troubleshooting & DDoS Response: AI Advisor correlates flow, device, and cloud data to pinpoint root causes rapidly, filter real threats from noise, and suggest precise mitigation steps.
- Institutional Knowledge Integration: It leverages custom runbooks and a customer’s network context (rather than relying solely on generic LLM knowledge), delivering tailored insights aligned with unique business needs.
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“We’ve been using Kentik AI Advisor in early access, and it’s already transformed how we work what used to take thirty minutes now takes just seconds,” said Lucas Isidoro, Network Engineer III at Equinix. “We simply describe what we need, and AI Advisor manages the entire process pulling the right data, analyzing it, and delivering clear answers. It’s drastically reduced our troubleshooting time and made complex network analysis effortless.”
“Kentik AI Advisor is designed for modern infrastructure teams that are tasked with scaling operations, optimizing costs, and safeguarding digital assets all while facing talent shortages,” said Avi Freedman, CEO and Co-Founder of Kentik. “Unlike traditional AIOps, which correlates and reduces only across the alerts generated for it, AI Advisor leverages its deep contextual understanding of every network to research and identify issues, analyze trends, and recommend precise actions.”
Market intelligence from Precedence Research underscores the timeliness of this launch: the global AI-in-networks market was estimated at USD 11.53 billion in 2024, with forecasts projecting growth to USD 192.42 billion by 2034. Kentik’s approach enables organizations to shift from reactive management toward proactive, autonomous operations making their networks more resilient, efficient, and secure.