--- title: "April 2026" slug: "april-2026" updated: 2026-07-06T21:09:01Z published: 2026-07-06T21:09:01Z canonical: "kb.kentik.com/april-2026" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://kb.kentik.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # April 2026 The following updates were released to the Kentik platform during April 2026. ## AI / Insights ### 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. ### Bug Fixes - **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. ## Alerting ### 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. ## Cloud ### Features - **Custom GCP service accounts**: Cloud export configuration now supports custom GCP service account authentication, letting you choose between Kentik Enterprise credentials and your own service accounts and reuse them across exports. - **Custom Azure SPN credentials**: Updated support for enrichment scope configuration with custom Azure Service Principal credentials with specific subscriptions during onboarding. - **Cloud Metadata API status reporting**: A new Cloud Config Status page provides AI-generated summaries, cross-provider statistics, an admin table with export, and on-demand refresh of API status. - **Per-compartment OCI topology**: OCI topology data is now organized per compartment with enhanced caching and per-compartment API status tracking for faster, more granular queries. - **OCI us-lenexa region support**: The OCI Map and Cloud Config pages now support the us-lenexa region. - **Enhanced cloud metrics**: Cloud API call metrics add service_name and operation_name dimensions and standardized provider labels for granular operation tracking. ### Bug Fixes - **Optional OCI user ID**: The OCI user ID field is now optional when creating or updating OCI cloud exports. - **Accurate Azure subscription names & pagination**: Azure Map subscription names resolve more accurately and Azure Resource Graph pagination works correctly for large resource sets. - **Removed deprecated Azure Classic VNet**: Eliminated deprecated Azure Classic VNet API calls that caused spurious 500 errors and alert noise. - **Better AWS topology error handling**: Real AWS API errors are now surfaced instead of being masked by TypeErrors, with guards against crashes from missing resources. - **GCP export editing fix**: Existing GCP cloud exports can be edited again after fixing a default-value validation error. - **AWS Map on-prem visibility**: The AWS Map now shows all on-premises devices instead of filtering out non-public virtual interfaces. - **Azure Express Route peering**: Azure topology now correctly shows both primary and secondary peering connections to on-prem devices. - **Consistent cloud selectors**: Account and subscription selectors across AWS, Azure, and OCI now align consistently and always show icons. - **AWS populators load all accounts**: Refreshing AWS populators now loads all AWS accounts for complete topology configuration. - **OCI compartment selector responsiveness**: The OCI compartment selector now updates reliably and stays in sync with form state. - **Refined Data Explorer filters**: Fixed excessive filter additions for VPC ID and related metrics in "Include in new query." - **Removed Cloud Performance Monitor**: The deprecated Cloud Performance Monitor and cloud interconnect views were removed from the product. - **Cost group Data Explorer link**: "View in Data Explorer" from the Cost Group drawer now uses the correct query and time range. ## NMS ### Features - **SNMP unification generally available**: Unified SNMP device monitoring templates and flow enrichment are now available to all customers, with the feature flag removed. - **SNMP polling health on Device Details**: The Device Details telemetry tab now shows eight SNMP polling KPIs (agent status, OIDs/sec, polling health score, successful fetch %, retries, and timing) with time-range selection and auto-refresh. - **Richer BGP neighbors table**: The BGP neighbors table now shows remote device/interface and local interface as clickable links with graceful fallback. - **More accurate query building**: The NMS query builder now uses QueryColumn references for metrics and dimensions, improving sorting, filtering, and aggregation accuracy. - **Updated device metadata**: Added new device models and corrected enterprise mappings for device discovery. ### Bug Fixes - **Kentik Map fixes**: Resolved a "getMaxDateRangeForQuery is not a function" error, restored the map right-click "View Device Details" menu, and fixed logical map topology errors. - **Disable BGP via API**: Setting BGP type to 'none' now clears the associated BGP device ID so the API request passes validation. - **Accurate SNMP cost calculation**: Corrected cost undercounting for kentik_agent SNMP collection by using the actual 60-second polling interval, with a tool to recalculate six months of historical costs. - **Enforced device plan limits**: Adding devices beyond a plan limit now correctly returns the expected error. - **Topology accuracy**: Removed spurious topology links from identical IPs and stale interface references for cleaner maps. - **Correct interface health**: Fixed a unit-conversion error that inflated interface utilization substantially, eliminating false health alerts. - **API version fallback**: ktranslate now falls back to an older site API version when the newer one is unavailable, keeping device enrichment working. - **Editable NMS query widgets**: Query widget settings (legend, tooltips, sparklines, layout, etc.) are now exposed for editing and persist correctly. - **Chord chart hover**: Kentik Map chord chart link hover now uses color swaps for clearer, faster visual feedback. ## Platform ### Features - **Audit Log improvements**: The Audit Log page adds resizable columns, searchable username/email, human-readable "Observation Deck" path mapping, and a new clickable "Object" column linking to modified resources. - **Universal Agent management**: Added permission checks based on config feature flags, a DEGRADED health status, an in-drawer "Authorize" button, and a configurable kproxy agents page. - **Flowproxy enabled by default**: New accounts now have the flowproxy capability enabled by default. - **Improved board variables UX**: Board variable and custom filter controls were refreshed, including clearer "Filter Name" terminology and improved variable mapping display. - **Library defaults**: The Library list now defaults to sorting by your personal "Last Viewed" history. - **Interface classification UX**: A cleaner tabbed interface (Rules/Devices/Unclassified) with real-time WebSocket feedback for rule testing. - **Expanded cluster & group health**: Cluster and group health indicators now show all severity levels (Healthy, Warning, Degraded, Critical, Down) with color-coding instead of "Unknown." ### Bug Fixes - **Interface classification performance**: Prevents browser out-of-memory crashes for large companies by using new APIs and virtualization, with a fix for the "refresh classifications" banner. - **Stronger SSO/auth security**: SSO Entry Point URLs are now validated to require HTTPS, and WebAuthn now works on public ephemeral preview environments. - **Board editing reliability**: Fixed adding sections and panels to new/unsaved boards, layout not saving, panel save race conditions, draft indicators, panel descriptions, and a crash on missing panel config. - **Toasts above overlays**: Toast notifications now appear on top of modal overlays. - **RBAC table filters persist**: Single-filter selections now persist in the RBAC permissions table. - **Bulk role update fix**: Empty bulk role updates no longer wipe role assignments. - **BGP entitlement display**: Edge plans now correctly show BGP as "Enabled" instead of "Enabled (Partial)." - **Device status caching**: The device status job now handles large device counts correctly. - **New dashboard dialog**: Fixed filter types not applying when creating a new dashboard. - **Universal Agent device link**: Fixed the broken "closest device" hyperlink in the agent details view. - **Panel description persistence**: Dashboard panel descriptions are now saved correctly. ## Synthetics ### Features - **Test List dashboard item**: A new dashboard item displays all synthetic tests with health status and key metrics in a searchable table, with health summary tabs, MIN/AVG/MAX toggle, column settings, and CSV export. - **Filter synthetics by label**: You can now filter Synthetics measurements by agent and test labels, including two new guided dimensions for label-based filtering. - **HTTP test task targets**: You can select task targets for HTTP synthetic tests, now the default dimension for HTTP results instead of destination address. - **Test configuration drawer**: A settings button on the agent details and BGP results pages opens a side drawer showing test configuration. - **Customizable performance dashboard**: The Synthetics performance dashboard can now be customized. - **Agent hostname metadata**: Synthetic agents now report and store hostname metadata for better identification and troubleshooting. - **Agent alert suppression docs**: Added documentation explaining how maintenance windows manage agent alert suppression. ### Bug Fixes - **Incident log widget**: Fixed the incident log widget showing no alarms by providing default severity and state filters. - **Synthetics Meshes widget**: The Meshes widget now works within boards, auto-selecting the first two meshes by default and allowing re-add after removal. - **Mesh overview widget saving**: Mesh overview widgets now save mesh selection and ordering, with initially-visible tests selected by default. - **Edit panels with deleted tests**: Synthetics dashboard panels backed by deleted tests can now be edited without error. ## Traffic ### Features - **Interface description & device filters**: A new "Interface Description" guided dimension lets you query by SNMP interface descriptions, with improved device-name filtering supporting string and regex operators. ### Bug Fixes - **Complete flow telemetry**: Device Details now queries all three flow measurement sources and selects the one with the highest volume, ensuring complete and accurate flow data. - **CDN/OTT parametric filters**: Fixed parametric filter types for CDN and OTT services by correcting filter field references. - **Dimension selector cleanup**: Removed the automatic "Custom" prefix from the chart-type dimension selector for a cleaner selection experience. - **Accurate country filter**: Data Explorer now correctly extracts ISO country codes from geography dimensions. - **Connectivity cost cleanup**: Orphaned interface charges are now automatically removed from cost groups while preserving global charges.