2026-01-26 to 2026-02-01

AI / Insights

AI Investigation Notification type: A new notification type has been introduced to support AI-driven investigation alerts, enabling customers to receive notifications triggered by AI investigation workflows.

CFMT API token authentication: Cloudflare Magic Transit (CFMT) mitigation platform now supports API token-based authentication, giving customers a more secure and flexible way to authenticate with the Cloudflare API.
Notification Templates API — render and schema endpoints: New API methods have been added to support an improved notification template editor in the Kentik Portal, including endpoints to render templates and retrieve their schema.
Unified mitigation platform health reporting: Mitigation platform status now provides unified error and health reporting, giving customers a consistent and clearer view of mitigation platform health across all providers.
Updated notification template types: Notification template types have been updated to reflect the latest EventViewModel changes, ensuring templates render correctly with all recent alerting changes.

Fixed alarm querying for tenant applications: Resolved an issue where active alarms were not being returned correctly for tenant policy applications, ensuring tenant customers can now see their active alarms.
Fixed nil baseliner panic: Resolved a crash that occurred when shadow policies were loaded and removed, improving alerting stability.
Fixed policy loader to filter permitted policies only: Updated policy loaders to correctly enforce policy permissions, preventing unauthorized policies from being processed.
Fixed stale stats metrics reset: Stale statistics metrics are now correctly reset to zero, preventing misleading metric values from persisting.
Improved alarm search with context filtering: Fixed an issue where alarm list queries with context search terms returned incorrect empty result sets, ensuring alarm search results are now accurate.

Public Audit API: A new public Audit API (v202601) has been introduced, allowing customers to programmatically retrieve audit event data matching what is visible in the Kentik Portal.
Enumerations API: New API definitions for an Enumerations service have been added, providing customers with programmatic access to manage and update enumeration values.
New kptr reverse DNS lookup service: A new on-demand reverse DNS lookup service (kptr) has been introduced and registered with the API gateway, enabling reverse DNS lookups via the Kentik API.
Extended ktrac API timeout: The API gateway timeout for the ktrac service has been increased to 30 minutes (1800s), supporting longer-running KDE queries without timeouts.

Fixed missing IP address in Audit API response: Resolved an issue where IP address data was missing from Audit API event responses, ensuring complete audit event details are returned.
Fixed filter parsing edge cases: Resolved a bug in SQL filter parsing that caused incorrect behavior with certain filter expressions, improving query reliability.

New DEGRADED agent health status: The NMS agent (kagent) now supports a DEGRADED health status, providing customers with more granular visibility into agent health — indicating reduced performance or capacity without full failure.
OpenWrt device detection: The NMS agent can now detect and identify OpenWrt OS family devices, expanding the range of supported network devices.
SNMP trap structured format modernization: SNMP trap data now uses the json-table data engine format for structured columns, improving consistency and compatibility with the Kentik data platform.
NMS metrics schema extended with query_column: The NMS metrics schema now includes a query_column field, enabling more flexible querying of NMS metrics data.
kprobe deprecation notice: A deprecation notice has been added to kprobe, informing customers that this component will be retired in a future release.
kagent Helm chart improvements: The kagent Helm chart has been updated with a license file, documented Linux capabilities, and minor configuration improvements for customers deploying the NMS agent via Helm.

Fixed agent keepalive stability issue: Disabled a keepalive setting that was causing agent connectivity issues (NMS-463), improving agent stability and reliability.

Enhanced agent state reporting: Improved state management and reporting for the synthetics agent, providing more accurate health and capability status information.

Fixed upload stream closure on server non-response: Resolved an issue where upload streams were not properly closed when the server did not respond, preventing resource leaks and improving agent reliability.