Kentik AI Advisor: Intelligence and automation for network design and operations
Industry News - November 18, 2025
Ops teams are stretched thin. A large share of senior network engineers are nearing retirement, and headcount isn't keeping pace with demand. Kentik's new AI Advisor steps in as an operator that understands your network, plans the work, executes, and explains the "why" behind each decision.
What Kentik AI Advisor is
Kentik AI Advisor is an agentic AI that takes intent in plain language, builds a plan from live telemetry, runs the investigation, and returns clear, auditable answers. It's built on the Kentik Data Engine, which ingests roughly a trillion telemetry points per day across cloud, device, flow, and internet data.
Under the hood, it combines large language models with reasoning capabilities and Kentik's network expertise to interpret requests, trace cause-and-effect, and document each step so Ops teams can trust the outcome.
Why Ops teams should care
- Cost optimization: Automatically scan network data to find savings across on-prem and cloud. Identify VPC and transit cost outliers, improve peering and interconnects, and flag high-cost routes that drag margins.
- Capacity planning: Analyze utilization trends, forecast run-out, and recommend right-sized investments. Move from guesswork to measurable, forward-looking planning.
- Faster troubleshooting and DDoS investigation: Correlate flow, device, and cloud signals to isolate root causes and separate real attacks from background noise. Get concise actions to cut MTTR and restore stability.
- Institutional knowledge, integrated: Bring your runbooks and network context into the loop so answers reflect how your business operates.
"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."
What makes it different
Most AIOps stops at correlating alerts. Kentik AI Advisor goes further by researching the live network, analyzing trends, and recommending specific next steps with rationale. "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 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."
How it works in practice
- You state intent: "Compare East/West traffic costs across regions and propose cheaper paths."
- AI Advisor builds a plan, queries Kentik's telemetry, and runs the analysis.
- It returns findings, impact estimates, and recommended actions, along with the steps it took and data it used.
- You approve or adjust. The system learns from what you keep or discard.
Market context
The AI in networks market is growing fast, estimated at USD 11.53B in 2024 and projected to reach roughly USD 192.42B by 2034, according to Precedence Research. Tools that translate intent into action-safely and explainably-will be central to how Ops teams scale without adding headcount.
First steps for Operations leaders
- Pick three workflows to target: cost anomalies, DDoS triage, and capacity run-out forecasts.
- Connect required telemetry: flow, device, cloud accounts, and internet data.
- Import the runbooks your team actually uses; keep them short and decision-oriented.
- Define guardrails: change windows, approval thresholds, and escalation paths.
- Track outcomes: MTTR, cost savings, false positive reduction, and planning accuracy.
Bottom line
For lean Ops teams, Kentik AI Advisor acts like an extra engineer who never gets tired: it understands context, does the grunt work, and explains its logic. That means fewer firefights, cleaner budgets, and a network that keeps pace with the business.
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More about Kentik
Kentik provides real-time network observability and analytics, unifying cloud, device, flow, and internet telemetry to help teams design, operate, and protect infrastructure at scale.
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