Network Monitoring

“Device health and performance monitoring, powered by the Kentik observability platform.”

What is Kentik NMS?

Kentik NMS is a cloud-delivered network monitoring system that tracks the health, availability, and performance of critical network devices.

It complements Kentik’s flow-based observability by focusing on SNMP polling, telemetry, and device metrics, enabling IT and NetOps teams to monitor their infrastructure from the datacenter to the WAN and the cloud edge.

By combining NMS with Kentik’s Multi-Cloud Observability, organizations achieve 360° visibility: from device status to user experience.

Key Features

• Device Health Monitoring
  • Polls SNMP, API, and streaming telemetry from routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers.
  • Monitors CPU, memory, temperature, interface utilization, errors, and discards.
• Availability & Fault Management
  • Automated device discovery.
  • Real-time alerts on outages, degraded performance, or interface errors.
  • Event correlation with flow and traffic analytics.
• Topology & Inventory
  • Builds dynamic maps of network devices and interfaces.
  • Tracks device lifecycle and configurations.
• Integration with Kentik Observability
  • Correlates device metrics with flow data, routing (BGP), and cloud logs.
  • Unified dashboards for both device-centric and flow-centric insights.
• SaaS Delivery
  • No complex NMS infrastructure to maintain.
  • Scalable and globally accessible, with multi-tenant support.

Benefits for the Client

• Unified visibility: device monitoring + flow observability in one platform.
• Rapid troubleshooting: correlate device errors with traffic anomalies.
• Reduced complexity: SaaS-based NMS, no heavy infrastructure required.
• Improved resilience: detect hardware faults before they impact users.
• Hybrid coverage: monitor devices across datacenter, WAN, and cloud edges.

Why Kentik NMS is Different ?

• Integrated with observability: unlike legacy NMS tools, Kentik correlates device telemetry with flow data and user experience.
• SaaS-first: eliminates the overhead of managing a heavy on-prem NMS.
• Multi-cloud ready: extends monitoring to cloud edge devices and virtual appliances.
• Business-aware: aligns device health with performance and cost analytics.

Typical Use Cases

• Monitor router and switch health in datacenter and WAN.
• Detect and troubleshoot firewall and load balancer issues.
• Provide availability reporting for compliance and SLAs.
• Correlate device faults with user-impacting incidents.
• Simplify NMS operations with cloud-delivered SaaS model.

Services & Support (What We Offer)

• NMS Readiness Assessment – define scope of device monitoring.
• Deployment Services – integrate Kentik NMS into existing environments.
• Dashboards & Reporting Workshops – tailor NMS views for NetOps and management.
• Managed NMS – provide device monitoring as-a-service.

“Modern Network Assurance for Complex and Hybrid Environments.”

What is DX NetOps?

Broadcom DX NetOps is a unified network monitoring and assurance platform designed for modern hybrid IT. It delivers industry-recognized root cause analysis and large-scale assurance, along with intelligent triage workflows that simplify the management of complex, multi-vendor, traditional, and software-defined networks.

From a single NOC portal, DX NetOps transforms inventory, topology, performance, faults, flows, device configurations, log data, and user experience metrics into actionable insights—empowering IT teams to achieve fast and accurate troubleshooting while improving service reliability.

Key Features

• Unified Visibility –Unified management portal and data model for fault, performance, flow, configuration, and user experience.
• Comprehensive Monitoring – Availability, performance, and health of routers, switches, firewalls, SD-WAN devices, ...
• Fault Management – Pinpoint the root cause of network delivery problems for faster resolution. Get automated event correlation and root cause analysis capabilities. Suppress unnecessary or symptomatic alarms and identify the actual component responsible for an issue. Visualize end-to-end network topology and correlate outages to configuration changes with audit trails for any network device
• Modern Network Assurance – Validate user experiences across multi-vendor, high-scale, SD-WAN, SDDC, and cloud-based Wi-Fi to ensure hop-by-hop network delivery and performance.
• Flow & Traffic Visibility – Analyze flow data to deliver actionable intelligence and real-time visibility into network behavior. Deep visibility into network traffic and volume of data flows. Intuitive visualizations and customizable dashboards to interpret complex data, identify potential bottlenecks and manage network resources effectively.
• Configuration Management – Adhere to compliance and minimize risks of outage resulting from configuration changes. Automate rollbacks, approval controls, and detailed change reporting that enables establishing reference configurations, tracking deviations, and even generating alarms when deviations occur.
• Experience-Driven NetOps – DX NetOps seamlessly integrates with AppNeta to transform NOC triage and response times. The integration brings end-user experience to the forefront of NOC visibility, extending operational reach across unmanaged networks and cloud-based applications.
• Proactive Insights – Alerts based on dynamic thresholds, deviation from baseline, and anomaly detection. Detect anomalies and degradations before they impact services.
• Simplified Management – Network fault suppression, topology-based isolation, and correlation of configuration changes to outages. Reduce operational complexity with intelligent triage workflows.
• Multi-Vendor & Multi-Protocol – Broad support for heterogeneous environments. Multi-vendor device and topology discovery, including technologies such as SDN, SDDC, SD-WAN, NFV, and WIFI.
• Highly Scalable – Proven support for very large, segmented, and secure infrastructures. High-scale monitoring of up to 5M items and 500K metrics per second.
• Integration – Native links with ITSM, AIOps, and observability ecosystems.

 Benefits for the Client

• Reduce downtime with proactive fault detection and fast remediation. Automate triage and root cause identification to expedite network problem resolution.
• Optimize costs by consolidating multiple point tools into one platform, a single management portal, gain visibility and control into complex, traditional, software-defined, and multi-vendor infrastructures.
• Accelerate innovation by validating and supporting next-gen networks. Tame the complexity of modern environments and capitalize on transformative technologies like SDN, SDDC, and SD-WAN.
• Full visibility across traditional and software-defined infrastructures,
• Stronger compliance with controlled and auditable configurations,
• Business alignment by linking network health to user experience and digital outcomes.