Kentik SD-WAN Monitoring is a network monitoring product that provides end-to-end visibility across SD-WAN deployments, including hybrid environments that combine SD-WAN with legacy routers. The product supports multi-vendor SD-WAN environments, allowing teams to ingest vendor-specific telemetry fields for deeper analysis and maintain a unified operational view across different SD-WAN platforms, including during mergers, acquisitions, and migrations. Key capabilities include: - Pre-deployment planning: Discover active applications between sites, the internet, and data centers before migration to understand the impact of switching vendors or enabling SD-WAN. - Underlay and overlay visibility: Monitor both the physical transport (underlay) and virtual tunnel layer (overlay) simultaneously. Drill down by site, device, or provider to isolate issues. - Policy intent validation: Audit measured traffic against configured SD-WAN policies, and verify that applications are steered to the correct transports (MPLS, internet, LTE). - Capacity planning: Track traffic baselines and growth trends to proactively right-size circuits and prevent bandwidth exhaustion. - Custom dashboards and alerting: Set up monitoring and alerts for policy deviations, transport outages, or unexpected application behavior. - Security monitoring: Detect traffic anomalies such as unexpected bandwidth spikes or unusual application activity, and investigate potential attacks using traffic insights.