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The visibility to understand and optimize large-scale networks – now.

Unified view across clouds and data centers.

Purpose-built for immediate insight into complex networks at scale.

Lower cloud transit costs, lower monitoring spend.

		CloudWatch
Hybrid and multi-cloud strategy	Full support for hybrid and multi-cloud networks.	Supports data from other clouds, but egress fees will apply.
Performance	High-performance query engine enables real-time investigations.	Analysis is very slow when dealing with large traffic volumes.
Data enrichment	Automated data enrichment adds public internet and business context such as BGP data, AS and service mappings, and tags to flow log data.	No enrichment: Raw VPC flow logs are very difficult to decipher and use without deeper context and metadata.
Ease of deployment	Quick SaaS deployment with minimal configuration and overhead.	Easy to get started, but data analysis requires configuring other AWS systems like Lambda and Athena.
Analytics and queries	Analytics built for high-cardinality traffic data, with proactive insights, instant visualizations, both built-in and customizable dashboards.	Limited insight into actual traffic, public internet, and top talkers. Poor query performance. Additional tools are required to run deep, complex analysis.
Cost structure	Predictable pricing with flat-rate options. No extra fees for vending and analysis.	Expensive, metered costs for storage, vending, and queries quickly add up.

“To save time and costs and improve the performance of hybrid networks, there’s no need to retool if you use Kentik.”

Louis Bolanos Staff Cloud Network Engineer, Box

Why choose Kentik as an alternative or complement to AWS CloudWatch?

Achieve multi-cloud visibility

Leverage quick insights from flow logs generated by AWS VPCs, Transit Gateways, and network firewalls along with Google Cloud, Azure, and on-premises resources – without context-switching.

Instant network expertise

Quickly understand everything from inter-AZ and inter-region transit to packet drops, BGP session status, and public routing data with assisted troubleshooting and automated insights. Out-of-the-box context enrichment, AI, and ML turn raw metrics into action.

Reduce monitoring and cloud costs

Move away from cost-prohibitive, usage-based billing models and scale sustainably. Predictable pricing includes unlimited insights and queries, so identifying inefficiencies, misconfigurations, and idle resources pays for itself.

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Faster troubleshooting