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title: "January 2026"
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updated: 2026-07-06T20:57:51Z
published: 2026-07-06T20:57:51Z
canonical: "kb.kentik.com/january-2026"
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# January 2026

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 contro**l: 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.