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title: "April 2026 - Alerting"
slug: "april-2026-alerting"
updated: 2026-06-26T20:50:41Z
published: 2026-06-26T20:50:41Z
canonical: "kb.kentik.com/april-2026-alerting"
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# April 2026 - Alerting

The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for Alerting during April, 2026.

## Features

- **Unified Policy Form**: All policy creation and editing (NMS, Flow/Traffic, Kevent) is now consolidated into a single streamlined form, replacing fragmented type-specific dialogs. Cloud policies are remapped to Traffic policies, and Kmetrics policies are rebranded "NMS - Classic Threshold."
- **Improved mitigation platform status**: Mitigation platform settings now display detailed, real-time status for DDoS platforms (BGP, Adaptive Flowspec, CFMT, non-BGP appliances), including BGP prefix status and error logs. 
- **ServiceNow API type support**: You can now choose between Table and Event API types when configuring ServiceNow notification channels. 
- **External context on alerts**: Alerts can now be linked to external ServiceNow incidents, with the context shown in the Alert Drawer.
- **Alert capacity visibility**: Policies now show active alarm counts against their limits with warnings when near or at capacity, preventing silent failures.
- **Syslog/SNMP traps rolling window mode**: Policies now support a rolling-window activation mode with configurable activation delay, clearance delay, frequency, time window, and grace period. 
- **Improved alert debugging**: A redesigned baseline debug chart clearly shows alert conditions, comparison direction, baseline calculations, and flexible time ranges (15 min–12 hr). 
- **Alert policies for agent capabilities**: A new agent capability entity type lets you create alert policies for individual Universal Agent capabilities. 
- **Richer alert drawer**: The drawer now shows application and severity labels with a state-duration summary, a standardized status tag with an animated Active→Cleared transition, and restored Alert Details / AI Investigation buttons. 

## Bug Fixes
- **Optional clear comment**: The Comment field is now optional when clearing alerts. 
- **Complete mitigation method lists**: Default list limits were raised so customers with 100+ mitigation methods/platforms see them all. 
- **Accurate syslog alert charts**: Syslog alert detail charts now filter to the specific alert match instead of all matching messages.
- **CIDR dimension fix**: Configured CIDR values in alert policies are now preserved instead of reset to defaults.