April 2026 - AI / Insights

The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for AI / Insights during April 2026.

Features

Durable tool approval flow: AI Advisor tool approvals now persist across page refreshes, deployments, and long approval windows, enabling multi-hour human-in-the-loop Auto Investigation scenarios.
Auto-approved tools support: Added support for auto-approved tools so certain remediation actions can execute without per-turn human approval, plus a new endpoint listing all available tools and their status.
Approval-pending visibility: AI Advisor now surfaces an awaiting-approval state at the session level when any message needs user approval.
Faster, asynchronous chat: AI Advisor chat now accepts user messages with an immediate response and lets clients poll for results, improving responsiveness.
AI Advisor traceroute analysis for Synthetics: You can now ask AI Advisor to analyze traceroute results for a given IP and agent, with hop-by-hop latency returned for troubleshooting.
Improved NMS query tool reliability: The AI Advisor NMS tool was ported to TypeScript and hardened against schema validation errors that could cause natural-language query failures.
RBAC enforcement for AI tools: AI Advisor now respects role-based permissions, so users only see tools they are entitled to and cannot access restricted data through natural-language queries.

Syslog & Trap tool now returns results: Fixed the AI Advisor Syslog & Trap tool failing to return data by validating queries against dynamically loaded dictionary values.
Overlay mode reconnect crash fixed: Resolved a crash when entering a prompt after a server restart or websocket reconnection.
Reduced response cutoffs: Increased AI Advisor output token limits and made turn compression less aggressive so investigation responses are no longer truncated.
Chat memory leak fixed: Fixed a memory leak in chat sessions where reconnect listeners were not cleaned up, improving stability.
Reliable market intelligence queries: Market Intelligence (KMI) insights now use a fixed lookback date instead of a dynamic timestamp for consistent, predictable results.
Protected insights from rogue restrictions: Hardened the insights restriction endpoint to prevent security scanners from inadvertently creating DENY rules that disabled insights.