Infoblox, which sells DNS, DHCP and IP address management software and network security services to large companies, signed a definitive agreement on 8 July 2026 to acquire Kentik, a network intelligence and observability platform. Infoblox announced the deal from its headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
Terms were not disclosed. The agreement was subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, and Infoblox announced on 6 August 2026 that it had completed the acquisition.
Infoblox said it would integrate Kentik's capabilities into its platform over time and would share further milestones later. It did not say whether Kentik will continue to be sold as a separate product or what roles Kentik's staff and its chief executive, Avi Freedman, will take.
What Kentik built
Kentik, founded in 2014, collects data about how traffic moves through a company's networks. Its platform takes in full-fidelity flow data, routing and path information, cloud VPC logs, synthetic test results and device telemetry, covering data centers, public clouds, wide-area networks and the public internet.
Network operations teams use it to troubleshoot outages, tune performance and cost, and see the whole path of a service without combining several separate monitoring tools, according to Infoblox's announcement. Neither company named Kentik's customers or disclosed its revenue or headcount.
Freedman, Kentik's co-founder and chief executive, said the company's goal had been to let organisations run increasingly complex networks based on data rather than guesswork.
“Kentik's vision has been to help organizations operate increasingly complex networks with intelligence rather than intuition”
Why Infoblox is buying
Infoblox's software sits underneath many corporate networks: chief executive Scott Harrell said every device, application and cloud workload on a customer's network runs through its technology. That gives Infoblox a record of which assets exist and what they are called. Kentik adds a view of how those assets actually behave and how traffic flows between them.
The companies listed three areas where they planned to combine the two. Kentik's topology maps would be labelled with Infoblox DNS names, asset details and user identity, to give clearer views of hybrid and multi-cloud networks. Infoblox's DNS-based threat intelligence would be matched against Kentik's flow data to help security teams triage incidents faster. And the combined data would be exposed to other tools through open protocols, including the Infoblox Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, so that AI agents can use it in what Infoblox calls AgenticOps.
Harrell said customers needed robust data and insights for agentic operations and that the combination with Kentik would deliver them. Infoblox says it has more than 5,700 customers, including most of the Fortune 100.
The founders and the funding
Kentik raised about $101.7 million across five rounds, according to funding data compiled by Clay. First Round Capital led a $3.1 million seed round in September 2014, followed by a $12.1 million Series A in June 2015 and a $23 million Series B led by Third Point Ventures in August 2016.
In May 2020 the company raised $23.5 million in growth funding, a mix of equity and growth debt led by Vistara Capital Partners, with August Capital, Third Point Ventures, DCVC and Tahoma Ventures taking part. Fenwick & West, which represented Kentik on that deal, put its total funding at $61.7 million at the time. Its last round was a $40 million Series C in October 2021, again led by Third Point Ventures. Delta-v Capital was also among its listed backers.
Oppenheimer & Co. was Kentik's exclusive financial adviser on the sale and Fenwick & West its legal adviser. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton advised Infoblox.
Infoblox's second deal of the year
Kentik was Infoblox's second acquisition of 2026, according to Channel Insider, following the Axur deal that closed in May. Both moves extend Infoblox beyond its original business in core network services toward security and operational data.
In the completion announcement, Harrell said Kentik added operational intelligence that enriched the infrastructure data Infoblox already holds. Freedman said that understanding what infrastructure is doing is the foundation for running it well.
