The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for Synthetics during August 2026.
Features
- More cloud providers for global agents: Exoscale, Kamatera and Vultr are now supported as cloud providers for global synthetic monitoring agents, including new icons, filtering and region selection.
- Simpler agent naming: Universal synthetic agents now automatically adopt the name set in the agent's configured name variable, so you no longer need to rename agents in the portal after deployment. Logs also include a normalized region field.
Bug Fixes
- Duplicate agent IP addresses: Synthetic agents with duplicate IP addresses now return deduplicated IP lists in both the UI and the API.
- Agent cloud region errors: Synthetic agents with a missing or undefined cloud region no longer cause display errors.
- Agent authentication stalls: Fixed an edge case where agent authentication could stall indefinitely after an unexpected error, leaving the agent unable to report results — most often on resource-constrained systems.
- Test error message display: The synthetics backend now displays an error message for a test result correctly instead of crashing when the underlying error data is not in the expected format.
- Test baseline loading: Malformed latency, jitter and throughput baseline records are now safely dropped and logged rather than causing failures.
- Synthetics query column casing: Fixed a case-mismatch in synthetic test data queries in Data Explorer that could cause queries to fail; column aliases are now correctly lowercased.