The following updates were released to the Kentik platform during January 2026.
AI / Insights
Features
- Saved Views in AI Advisor: AI Advisor can now search for and run your saved views directly, filtering by ownership and share level and returning results without creating the same queries manually.
- Multi-device AI Advisor commands: The AI Advisor Device Command tool can now target multiple devices with a single approval, running commands concurrently and displaying per-device results.
- Mitigation tools in AI Advisor: BGP Mitigation Announcements, Mitigation Config, and Mitigation Events are now accessible directly within AI Advisor.
- Synthetics test results in AI Advisor: AI Advisor can fetch and display detailed Synthetics test results (latency, jitter, packet loss, DNS/HTTP details, health status) with an alarm timeline and CSV export for analysis.
- Synthetic agent downtime advisor: A new AI tool lets you investigate private agent stability and connectivity issues, returning downtime alert history with direct links to agent detail pages.
- Market Intelligence in AI Advisor: AI Advisor now supports Kentik Market Intelligence (KMI) permissions, enabling Market Intelligence access from within the advisor.
Bug Fixes
- Connectivity test results: Fixed an error that broke the AI Advisor connectivity test tool when retrieving results.
- AI Advisor session isolation: Added company ID validation to AI Advisor session updates to ensure sessions are properly isolated per customer account.
- Global AI search company scoping: Fixed an issue where global search requests were not setting the correct company ID.
- AI Advisor A2A SDK fix: Restored AI Advisor functionality by resolving a breaking change in the a2a SDK.
- Deleted synthetic agents: AI Advisor now excludes deleted agents from synthetics results and recommendations.
- Investigation reliability: Fixed empty-string query handling and event clear-time calculation in investigation workflows.
Alerting
Features
- Compatible policy validation for MKP tenants: When creating an MKP tenant, the UI now retrieves a whitelist of compatible flow policies so you can accurately see which policies are available.
Bug Fixes
- Email subject formatting: Fixed an issue where HTML tags could appear in email subjects.
- Clear Alert dialog: The Clear Alert dialog now displays correctly when triggered from the alert table's kebab menu.
- NMS alert counter widget: Corrected flipped values in the NMS alerting history widget so counts display accurately.
- Alarm policy description: Restored the policy description field in NMS alarm event details.
- MKP alerting persistence: Fixed notification channels not persisting on subpolicy save, cold-loading errors on package detail pages, and loss of package activation settings during updates.
- BGP announcement listing: Fixed an invalid endpoint address that prevented BGP announcements from showing in the Mitigations panel.
- Subpolicy status: Subpolicies now inherit parent policy status when the parent is not active, clarifying policy state.
Cloud
Features
- AWS topology map empty state & account selectors: The AWS topology map now displays a clear empty state when no accounts are selected, and account selectors were added to Pathfinder and custom dimension creation.
- Custom dimensions from AWS instance tags: You can now create custom dimensions directly from AWS instance tags for improved cloud automation.
- Azure VNet flow logs: Azure cloud export configuration now offers VNet flow logs as the primary collection option, with NSG logs deprecated and removed from the UI.
- Azure custom app registration secrets: When editing Azure cloud exports, you can now select and update custom app registration secrets from the credential vault.
- Latest Cloud Export API in API Tester: The cloud_export-v202506 API version is now available for testing in the API Tester tool.
- View AWS External ID: The AWS Cloud Config Status page now lets you view your AWS External ID without regenerating it.
Bug Fixes
- CloudPak license card: Fixed dark mode styling, value rounding, FPS percentage calculation, and button styling on the license page CloudPak card.
NMS
Features
- SNMP unification in open early access: Unified SNMP device monitoring templates and flow enrichment are available to interested customers by feature flag.
- Command Access in open early access: Command Access is available to interested customers by feature flag.
- NMS Alerting now supports Interface Classification: You can now use Interface Classification rules as criteria when setting up NMS alert policies.
- Consistent time range formatting: Time dropdown options in Metrics Explorer and Data Explorer now use consistent formatting (e.g., "Last day + 4 hours").
- Faster device details loading: Device Details pages now load faster by fetching telemetry, components, IS-IS adjacencies, and BGP neighbor data on demand as you navigate.
- SNMP interface metrics source control: Customers with the UA SNMP Polling for Flow Enrichment flag can now choose whether SNMP interface data is collected by NMS or flow, set automatically without support intervention.
- Cumulus Linux SSH support: Cumulus Linux (NVUE) is now a supported platform option for device SSH configuration.
- Phoenixtec UPS monitoring: The APC SNMP profile now supports Phoenixtec UPS devices.
- Improved SNMP trap handling: Enhanced SNMP trap parsing and processing.
Bug Fixes
- Favorites tab links: Fixed broken navigation when opening NMS saved views from the Library Favorites tab.
- Sidebar filter loading state: The device filter sidebar now shows accurate loading feedback before displaying final counts.
- Device table labels: Fixed potential UI errors when viewing devices with incomplete label data.
- Faster temperature queries: Reduced device temperature query lookback to 4 hours for faster response.
- Negative metric formatting: Metrics Explorer now correctly displays negative values (e.g., negative dBm input power).
- Interface details performance: Optimized the interface details drawer load on device inventory pages.
- Device deletion with connections: Devices with auto-discovered connections can now be deleted; only manual connections block deletion.
- Device archival cleanup: Archived devices are now automatically removed from referencing dashboard items to prevent broken references.
- Interface count display: Fixed Device Details interface counts when the interfaces array is empty.
- APC UPS profile syntax: Fixed a YAML syntax error that prevented the APC UPS profile from loading.
Platform
Features
- Audit log support for runbooks and UUIDs: The audit log now supports UUID-based entity identifiers and tracks runbook create/update/delete operations.
- License page redesign: A redesigned License page reorganizes add-ons, adds an Account Team card with direct messaging, and improves visual hierarchy for Premier features.
- PeeringDB settings page: PeeringDB integration moved from a modal to a dedicated settings page at /v4/settings/peeringdb for easier management.
- Agent distribution compatibility: The agent can now run on unsupported Linux distributions with tiered fallback (same-family enabled by default, cross-family opt-in).
- Kafka SASL authentication: ktranslate now supports SASL authentication for Kafka sinks via new user, password, and mechanism flags.
- Kafka TLS verification skip: Added an option to skip TLS certificate verification for Kafka connections in self-signed environments.
- Resizable table columns: You can now resize table columns (Sites, Interfaces, Devices, and more), with your width preferences persisted across sessions.
Bug Fixes
- User Analytics without NMS: The User Analytics page is now accessible without requiring NMS to be enabled.
- Kproxy error handling: Kproxy now returns a 400 instead of a 500 when a Kentik Agent Plan is missing, giving clearer feedback.
- Email subject formatting: Fixed an issue where HTML tags could appear in email subjects.
- Capability health status: Capabilities with unreachable connections now correctly report "Unknown" instead of a misleading "Healthy" status.
- File tag mapping: Fixed a bug where identical values in different tag columns were dropped during file-based tag mapping.## Synthetics
Synthetics
Features
- Clickable synthetic test and agent links: Synthetic test and agent names are now clickable links to Details pages, with improved data handling.
- Configurable DNS test timeout: You can now edit DNS test timeout (expiry) values between 1-30 seconds via the UI and API, instead of a fixed 3000ms default.
- Per-agent synthetic alert enrichment: Synthetic test alerting now includes per-agent metric enrichment with agent names, IPs, labels, metrics, and direct portal links.
- Concise synthetic alert emails: Email templates now hide detailed issue info for grouped and agent synthetic alerts while keeping details for subtest alerts.
Bug Fixes
- Unsaved changes warning: Fixed false "unsaved changes" warnings when editing synthetic tests.
- Warning notification toggle label: Moved the "Disable Warning Notifications" label onto the toggle for clarity.
- Target data in API responses: Restored target IP filtering and fixed task type mapping for knock/ping/page-load tasks in synthetic API responses.
- Synthetics dashboard panels: Fixed panel loading before export, height rendering/content cutoff, and removed the Details button from exported panels.
Traffic
Features
- New AI service DNS classification: Added DNS service definitions for GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Copilot, with updated patterns for Sentry and OpenAI, so AI platform traffic is properly identified in DNS analytics.
- Smarter DNS analytics filtering: DNS analytics now filters to configured internal IP ranges using the Network Classification API, preventing unwanted DNS devices and reducing ingestion costs.
- New streaming service DNS patterns: Added DNS patterns for Telia TV and streaming services for accurate identification and tagging.
- Flow sample rate indicators: Device details now show flow sampling status, downsampled/low-resolution warnings, actual vs. configured sample rates, and 30-day flow trend charts, including in the device drawer.
- Site renderer in Data Explorer: Added site rendering for "site by IP" columns in the Data Explorer legend.
Bug Fixes
- DNS application protocol mapping: Corrected application protocol column mappings in DNS-to-flow data transformation.