{"id":8809,"date":"2026-07-08T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/blog\/?p=13880"},"modified":"2026-07-08T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:00:10","slug":"see-everything-know-what-to-do-next-why-infoblox-kentik-changes-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/see-everything-know-what-to-do-next-why-infoblox-kentik-changes-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"See Everything. Know What to Do Next. Why Infoblox + Kentik Changes the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It started with a question from one of our customers. <\/p>\n

A device on their network made a DNS query to resolve a malicious host. They could see the query, but they couldn\u2019t see what that device touched next. So they asked a simple question: \u201cWhat if we could pull up a single map of everything that device connected to inside the environment?\u201d One picture. The whole blast radius, instantly. That would be game-changing. <\/p>\n

That question stuck with me, because today most teams don\u2019t have this visibility. The data they\u2019d need lives in too many disconnected places. <\/p>\n

A few times in a career, you get to be part of a moment that creates a new market. For me, the news that Infoblox intends to acquire Kentik<\/strong><\/a> is one of those moments, and I couldn\u2019t be more excited to share why. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve spent a lot of my career at the intersection of networking and security, and I\u2019ve watched both disciplines grow more complex, more interdependent and\u2014frankly\u2014more fragmented. Teams have more tools than ever, yet still struggle to answer simple questions: What\u2019s on my network? Where is traffic actually going? Is this service performing the way it should? Is it safe? Bringing Infoblox and Kentik together answers those questions in one place, and that\u2019s a big deal for our customers.<\/p>\n

Two market leaders, one clear fit<\/h3>\n

Infoblox is the trusted foundation of the modern network. For more than two decades, we\u2019ve been the industry leader in DNS, DHCP and IP address management (DDI), and for nearly a decade, we\u2019ve built on that foundation to also deliver preemptive security. We help thousands of organizations, including most of the Fortune 100, secure and automate the critical network services every digital business depends on. We know what\u2019s connected, who it is, where it\u2019s trying to go and whether that destination is risky. <\/p>\n

Kentik is a leader in network observability and intelligence. Its platform gives modern infrastructure teams real-time visibility into traffic behavior, performance, paths and routing, cloud networks and synthetic tests. Kentik shows how traffic is actually moving, where performance changed and how the experience is impacted. <\/p>\n

Individually, these capabilities are powerful. Together, they are transformative: A single platform unites authoritative network identity, combined with DNS-based context and security intelligence, with live operational views. Correlated in real time. Made instantly actionable through AI.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to stop stitching tools together<\/h3>\n

Today, networking, cloud and security teams stitch together DDI, security and observability tools that were never designed to talk to each other. DNS context lives in one place, traffic behavior in another, performance data in a third, while network identity and security details sit in separate systems elsewhere. The result is blind spots, slow root-cause analysis and security decisions made with only half the picture. <\/p>\n

Our approach is fundamentally different: we\u2019re turning the infrastructure into the ultimate intelligence fabric and pioneering AI-driven network and security intelligence. Not a collection of point tools, but a unified platform that connects what is configured, who and what is on the network, where traffic is going, how it\u2019s performing and what to do next, all on one foundation built for the age of AI.<\/p>\n

AI is only as good as the data foundation<\/h3>\n

Here\u2019s the part that matters most as AI takes on real operational responsibility: AI is only as good as the data beneath it. Imagine a doctor diagnosing a patient while the lab results, the history and the vitals each live in a different system that never talk to each other; They\u2019re guessing, not diagnosing. That\u2019s how most automation runs today, drawing from fractured datasets, and fractured data produces incomplete, even misleading, results. <\/p>\n

Infoblox and Kentik will solve this at the source by creating a single, trusted operational data fabric: DNS intent and context, asset visibility and preemptive security signals from Infoblox, united with full-fidelity flow, path, performance and synthetic data from Kentik. Through open protocols like Model Context Protocol (MCP), teams can connect this fabric to the AI, automation and orchestration tools they already use. For the first time, network identity, intent, behavior and impact live in one place, not scattered across disconnected systems. That\u2019s the difference between AI that guesses and AI that knows.<\/p>\n

Better together: control, context, visibility and intelligence<\/h3>\n

The magic is in the combination. Think about what becomes possible:<\/p>\n

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  • Stronger, faster security<\/strong>: Remember that customer\u2019s question. A device reaches for a suspicious domain. Infoblox sees the intent and Kentik maps everything that device touched next: what it connected to and which assets are now in play. In one picture, teams see the full blast radius. In seconds, they move from a low-confidence signal to a verified incident. Triage time drops. Confidence in every response goes up.<\/li>\n
  • More efficient and confident NetOps<\/strong>: Something breaks. Is it what the team configured, or what\u2019s actually happening on the wire? Infoblox knows what should happen. Kentik shows what is happening: live traffic, path, performance, device health. Put them together and teams stop having to guess. Fewer cross-team escalations. Fewer ticket reassignments. MTTR in minutes, not hours. Service you can count on.<\/li>\n
  • Better automation outcomes with complete context<\/strong>: A service is degrading. Is it DNS resolution? A misconfiguration? A routing change? A congested path? An overloaded interface? A device that\u2019s simply down? Now, an AI assistant answers with confidence because it sees the whole picture, not a slice of it. That\u2019s automation you can trust to act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    So, what does this mean for our customers? Fewer silos, stronger security, better performance and a smarter, safer path to automated operations. <\/p>\n

    Why I\u2019m optimistic<\/h3>\n

    Beyond technology, this is a story about two cultures that share a similar mindset. Both Infoblox and Kentik were built by teams that care deeply about customer outcomes, technical excellence and solving hard infrastructure problems at scale. The future of networking and security will require that kind of passion, curiosity and ambition. <\/p>\n

    As we bring these companies and capabilities together, we\u2019ll do things neither of us could do alone: validate reality against expectation continuously, ground every AI-driven action in complete network truth and give customers the clarity and control they need to manage every critical connection. <\/p>\n

    We have a lot more to share in the months ahead. In the meantime, talk to your Infoblox team about what Infoblox and Kentik can do for your environment. <\/p>\n

    For now, on behalf of everyone at Infoblox: welcome to what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n