Kentik
Kentik is a network observability company whose SaaS platform (the Kentik Portal) unifies network flow records, BGP routing, SNMP and streaming telemetry, synthetic tests, and cloud VPC/flow logs into one analytics engine for network performance monitoring, capacity planning, DDoS detection and mitigation, cloud and container visibility, service-provider peering and OTT analytics, and AI-driven network intelligence. The Kentik V6 API is a gRPC-first platform with REST/JSON transcoding that exposes dozens of services — devices, sites, labels, users, alert policies, mitigations, synthetics, cloud export, notification channels, capacity plans, and an AI Advisor MCP server — authenticated with X-CH-Auth-Email plus X-CH-Auth-API-Token headers.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Kentik the way a machine reads it — 29 machine-readable artifacts across 24 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Kentik scores 58.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 71/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Kentik
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Kentik. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 24
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Kentik AiAdvisorDataService API
The AiAdvisorDataService API from Kentik — 2 operation(s) for aiadvisordataservice.
Kentik AlertService API
The AlertService API from Kentik — 7 operation(s) for alertservice.
Kentik ASGroupService API
The ASGroupService API from Kentik — 2 operation(s) for asgroupservice.
Kentik AuditService API
The AuditService API from Kentik — 3 operation(s) for auditservice.
Kentik BgpMonitoringAdminService API
The BgpMonitoringAdminService API from Kentik — 3 operation(s) for bgpmonitoringadminservice.
Kentik BgpMonitoringDataService API
The BgpMonitoringDataService API from Kentik — 2 operation(s) for bgpmonitoringdataservice.
Kentik CapacityPlanService API
The CapacityPlanService API from Kentik — 4 operation(s) for capacityplanservice.
Kentik CloudExportAdminService API
The CloudExportAdminService API from Kentik — 2 operation(s) for cloudexportadminservice.
Kentik CostService API
The CostService API from Kentik — 3 operation(s) for costservice.
Kentik CustomDimensionService API
The CustomDimensionService API from Kentik — 6 operation(s) for customdimensionservice.
Kentik DeviceService API
The DeviceService API from Kentik — 7 operation(s) for deviceservice.
Kentik FlowTagService API
The FlowTagService API from Kentik — 2 operation(s) for flowtagservice.
Kentik KmiService API
The KmiService API from Kentik — 5 operation(s) for kmiservice.
Kentik LabelService API
The LabelService API from Kentik — 2 operation(s) for labelservice.
Kentik MitigationsService API
The MitigationsService API from Kentik — 4 operation(s) for mitigationsservice.
Kentik NotificationChannelService API
The NotificationChannelService API from Kentik — 3 operation(s) for notificationchannelservice.
Kentik PackageService API
The PackageService API from Kentik — 2 operation(s) for packageservice.
Kentik PolicyService API
The PolicyService API from Kentik — 4 operation(s) for policyservice.
Kentik SiteService API
The SiteService API from Kentik — 4 operation(s) for siteservice.
Kentik SyntheticsAdminService API
The SyntheticsAdminService API from Kentik — 7 operation(s) for syntheticsadminservice.
Kentik SyntheticsDataService API
The SyntheticsDataService API from Kentik — 3 operation(s) for syntheticsdataservice.
Kentik TenantService API
The TenantService API from Kentik — 2 operation(s) for tenantservice.
Kentik TenantUserService API
The TenantUserService API from Kentik — 2 operation(s) for tenantuserservice.
Kentik UserService API
The UserService API from Kentik — 4 operation(s) for userservice.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
kentik-mcp.yml
MCP SERVEREvent Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Kentik Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Kentik — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 6
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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