--- description: Learn more about Kentik pricing, benefits, and disadvantages for your business in Canada. Read verified software reviews and find tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Kentik Pricing, Reviews & Features - Capterra Canada 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Network Monitoring Software](/directory/30019/network-monitoring/software) > [Kentik](/software/180073/kentik) # Kentik Canonical: https://www.capterra.ca/software/180073/kentik Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ca/software/180073/kentik?page=2) > Kentik is the network observability company. Our platform is a must-have to plan, run, and fix any network. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 33 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Kentik? Enterprises, Carrier | CDN | IP Transit, Financial Services, ISP | Telco | MSO, Media \& Entertainment, Hosting \& Cloud Infrastructure. Research \& Education, Digital Enterprises, Media Streaming ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 33 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Kentik - **Location**: San Francisco, US - **Founded**: 2014 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Kentik has two main pricing plans: Kentik Pro and Kentik Premier. These plans vary, depending upon the deployment model, your storage needs, and the size of your network. Contact Kentik for pricing information or learn more at: https://www.kentik.com/product/plans-pricing/ - **Target Audience**: 11–50, 51–200, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Chromebook (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and 4 more ## Features - AI/Machine Learning - Activity Dashboard - Alerts/Escalation - Alerts/Notifications - Bandwidth Monitoring - Baseline Manager - Capacity Management - Dashboard Software - Data Aggregation - IT, Server & Network Monitoring Software - Network Analysis - Performance Metrics - Performance Monitoring - Real-Time Data - Reporting & Statistics - Reporting/Analytics - Root Cause Analysis - Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) - Uptime Reporting ## Integrations (6 total) - Flow - OpsGenie - PagerDuty - ServiceNow - Slack - Syslog-ng ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base Software - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Network Monitoring Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/30019/network-monitoring/software) ## Related Categories - [Network Monitoring Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/30019/network-monitoring/software) - [IT, Server & Network Monitoring Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/32713/server-monitoring/software) - [Network Access Control (NAC) Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/32855/network-access-control-%28nac%29/software) - [AIOps Platforms](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/32875/aiops-platforms/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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If you didn't use it very frequently, you generally forgot how. ----- ### "Great observability platform" — 5.0/5 > **Amos** | *May 22, 2023* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Saas service means very good scalability for bigger networks.Flow data being enriched by other types of data makes it easy to extract value from the platform.Many built in dashboards but also very easy to build your own. > > **Cons**: ddos filters could be optimized to be more multi dimensional > > This is our main platform for network traffic analysis.It helps a lot with capacity planning and management, as well as with security aspects. ----- ### "Kentik must have if you try to be proactive" — 5.0/5 > **Romeo** | *June 9, 2023* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Kentik approached me about their netflow extremely fast query capabilities. I just brushed my shoulders because I didn't think there was any problems with my in-house netflow server. When I agreed to test out their product I was extremely shocked that any query I ran was single digit seconds vs 30-50minutes that I was used to.Setting up trigger alerts is fairly simple and you get countless of options on your alert mechanism. This is CRITICAL to TierPoint to be quick AND accurate because it triggers an API call to our DDoS Scrubbing Centers to take the bad traffic away from our Data Centers and re-route them to our Scrubbing Centers to save our backbone from DDoS Attacks > > **Cons**: Netflow and SNMP data is preferred to go to Kentik direct over the Internet. I truly don't like to have my SNMP features enabled on the outside network so they have a kProxy product that sits on your inside network to collect the data. At first kProxy was challenging to get going but it came a long way and it's been SOLID for more than a year now. This is not a Con anymore but this is all I can think of. > > First when we turned up kentik for our DDoS offering I needed to send API calls to more than one destination as we have multiple Scrubbing Centers. I wanted both Scrubbing Centers to work in Active/Active mode. Kentik at the time did not provide that option and we would have to maintain 2 policy's for each Scrubbing Center. This is an administrative nightmare but Kentik's response to my problem was to give them a week to make this happen. I was stunned on how fast they were able to turn this around ----- ### "Kentik for Managed Service Providers" — 3.0/5 > **Brad** | *August 31, 2020* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 4.0/10 > > **Pros**: Like most SaaS consumption models, your deployment is extremely easy. Setting up dashboards is rather intuitive (for engineers) and the filtering capability is really good. > > **Cons**: For a SaaS company, their updates have broken core functionality. In short, I would say their regression testing is lacking. The My.Kentik Portal is a beta product. The entire premise is to expose the dashboards and panels you create to your customers or other business units/non-technical staff. In reality, this is just another window, that does restrict user access (thank you), but its still the same clunky UI that works well for technical people but not customers. Additionally, it is mired with the same bugs as the standard UI and more. Most of the errors are around their timeline but there are other errors that cause major concern like data inconsistencies. > > Initially, it was a good fit as a predominantly 'in-house' tool. As we have exposed this data to customers, and used it more, we have found that the shell looks really good but the inner workings are suspect. Also, its rather pricy for the value it brings. We had high hopes for My.Kentik but those have failed to materialize. ----- ### "The Best Network tool in Market" — 5.0/5 > **Gustavo** | *June 20, 2023* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Kentik is a complete solution for all business that delivery digital information. It covers all segments, either if it is on premisis ou cloud. It is very easy and fast of implementation cycle (so you can be confident that everything will be operational in a very short period).It can replace diferent platforms in a single solution that touch differents areas of the company (operations, delivery, engineering and administrative) > > **Cons**: There is not much Cons to say. I would consider some others ways to store locally overall data of strategic providers over time. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ca/software/180073/kentik?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ca/software/180073/kentik) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | ja | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data