Beyond Chatbots: AI Reasoning at Scale with AI Advisor

About this episode

The episode explores AI reasoning in network operations with insights from Kentik's AI Advisor.

Kentik’s Mav Turner joins host Phil Gervasi to go beyond chatbot hype and dig into real AI reasoning for network operations. They discuss how Kentik AI Advisor uses network intelligence, hybrid RAG, and tool-calling to troubleshoot issues, optimize cost, and democratize access to network expertise. Along the way, they cover architecture, data governance, model evaluation, and why AI has to be built into an observability platform itself, not bolted on.

People in this episode

Host: Phil Gervasi

Guest: Mav Turner

Topics covered

• AI reasoning
• network operations
• cost optimization
• data governance
• observability platforms

Keywords

• AI reasoning
• network intelligence
• troubleshooting
• cost optimization
• data governance
• observability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kentik

Products: AI Advisor

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