announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire . Financial terms were not disclosed.
Kentik was founded in 2014, originally as CloudHelix before rebranding the following year, and has raised more than $100 million in venture funding to date. The platform provides real-time visibility into network traffic and ingests flow data, routing intelligence, and device telemetry across data centers, cloud environments, WANs, and the public internet. In recent years, the company has enhanced its platform with an has spent more than two decades managing the DNS, DHCP, and IPAM services enterprises rely on to stay connected. In 2024, it first launched its to more providers. DDI refers to the trio of core network services in IP networks: DNS, which turns domain names into IP addresses; DHCP, which assigns IP addresses to resources; and IPAM, which manages the network’s IP address infrastructure.
Infoblox and Kentik each had something the other one was missing.
“We know every device, every application across the hybrid multi cloud state, we know because we handed out the IPs, or we have acquired those assets,” , co-founder and CEO of Kentik, told Network World.
Both Gupta and Freedman said the companies have discussed working together for several years, driven largely by customers who use both platforms and asked the two vendors to integrate them directly.
“We’ve gone from very internet-centric companies to some of the largest enterprises in the world, and guess who they use for all of their core sources of truth,” Freedman said. “So, our customers have been saying, hey, you have this great platform that can take all this enrichment, and we need you to be doing this kind of integration.”
For Infoblox, the situation was similar. Gupta noted that some of the problems his company was trying to solve require network flow information, which Kentik provides.
“We have a lot of common customers, and they were like, ‘Can you bring these platforms together?’” Gupta said.
What the integration will enable
The combination of the two companies’ technologies will bring more capabilities to users.
One specific example cited by Gupta has to do with the company’s Infoblox IQ, an agentic operations layer that was announced in June 2026, One of its existing capabilities, called IQ Actions, is designed to detect problems and begin investigating them automatically, before a customer notices an issue.
The system monitors DNS and DHCP metrics for anomalies, then automatically collects related data and analyzes it using large language models before an operator opens the ticket.
“We throw that data into LLMs and see if they can figure out what the root cause is, and come up with a recommendation, so all of that happens completely automatically,” Gupta said.
What Kentik would add to that workflow is flow data. Combining Infoblox’s DNS-based threat intelligence with Kentik’s flow data could extend the same kind of automatic investigation into security incidents. DNS data can identify devices communicating with a command and control server. Flow data can then show where those devices connected next inside the network.
“With flow data, we can draw that blast radius and tell customers proactively what the issue is and what the exposure is,” Gupta said.
Kentik’s own AI Advisor is moving in a similar direction, from answering direct questions to carrying out tasks on its own. The combination with DDI information will help to support that vision.
“What we’ve been working on is making it proactive, so basically operating Kentik for you, doing your networking tasks, all your planning, capacity optimization, troubleshooting,” Freedman said.
Freedman traced that same logic back to why the deal made sense in the first place.
“We can actually build an amazing platform together, which customers are actually asking for, which is always the best way to build a business,” he said.
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