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July 2026 - AI / Insights

  • Published on Aug 7, 2026
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The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for AI / Insights during July 2026.

Features

  • PeeringDB sub-agent: AI Advisor can now query PeeringDB for Internet Exchanges, facilities, and ASN networks — checking records, finding common IXes/facilities, listing by geography, retrieving ASN profiles, and looking up IP addresses.
  • AI Advisor can manage Sites: A new Sites tool creates and updates Kentik Sites (name, address, geo coordinates, IP ranges, site type) from your instructions. Every write requires human approval first and respects your RBAC permissions.
  • Data Explorer tool results include timestamps and units: Time series returned to AI Advisor now carry ISO timestamps and units on each line, plus a table/legend header, improving the accuracy of AI answers about specific points in time.
  • 95th percentile metrics available to AI Advisor: The Data Explorer tool now supports p95th bits/sec, packets/sec, and flows/sec.
  • AI context on Capacity Planning pages: The Capacity Planning overview and detail pages now feed AI Advisor full plan context (interface capacity, utilization, runout dates, severity, thresholds) with suggested prompts that adapt to plan health.
  • AI context on Connectivity Costs pages: AI Advisor can analyze historical backbone and edge cost data, provider costs and cost-per-Mbps, currency-aware provider management, and cost groups.
  • AI context on Traffic Costs pages: Traffic Costs overview and detail pages gain AI context and intelligent suggested prompts for questions about cost data, trends, and patterns.
  • OTT Inventory tool: AI Advisor can list, search, and filter Kentik's OTT detection catalog by category and provider, return summary statistics, and export results to CSV.
  • Device tool label filtering: AI Advisor can now filter the device inventory by label name.
  • Faster, more accurate AI queries: Fuzzy matching for measurement names, automatic correction of dimension typos, and roughly 26% lower token usage on typical queries.
  • Clearer sub-agent transcripts: Sub-agent reasoning and tool calls now render inline in a compact top-to-bottom flow (reasoning to call to result to next step).
  • "Still working" indicator: Rejoining an active AI Advisor session (after a reload or session-start notification) now shows a thinking indicator so it is clear the agent is still running. Thinking indicators were also added to chat session lists in AI Advisor and Copilot.
  • Custom Network Context change history: CNC changes are now recorded in the Audit Log with dedicated filtering and full version history.
  • Kentik AI settings pages added to the sitemap: All AI configuration pages (overview, models, context, command access, runbooks, auto-investigation, privacy, usage) are now discoverable in the sitemap.
  • Runbooks from Kentik presets available to auto-investigations: Companies can attach Kentik-provided preset runbooks to auto-investigations without owning them.
  • New and larger models available: Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite added to the model registry; maximum output raised from 64,000 to 128,000 tokens for the latest Claude Sonnet and Opus models.

UDE Features

Universal Data Explorer (UDE) is in open early access and is available to interested customers by feature flag. The following features are available to users with access to UDE:

  • Universal Data Explorer: "Source or Destination" filtering: A single filter can now capture traffic in either direction for a given dimension.
  • Universal Data Explorer: deeper tables and total row: Table depth extends from 5-40 to 50-350 rows, and the legend table gains a sticky footer with aggregated totals that stays visible while scrolling.
  • Universal Data Explorer tool is now opt-in: The UDE tool requires explicit feature-flag activation before it replaces the Data Explorer and NMS tools in AI Advisor.
  • Ask questions of live network data in plain English: New AI Advisor tools translate natural-language questions into live queries across NetFlow/IPFIX traffic, NMS metrics, and synthetic test results, and can build complete multi-panel dashboards from a conversation.
  • Universal Data Explorer: "Source or Destination" filtering: A single filter can now capture traffic in either direction for a given dimension.
  • Universal Data Explorer: deeper tables and total row: Table depth extends from 5-40 to 50-350 rows, and the legend table gains a sticky footer with aggregated totals that stays visible while scrolling.
  • Universal Data Explorer tool is now opt-in: The UDE tool requires explicit feature-flag activation before it replaces the Data Explorer and NMS tools in AI Advisor.

Bug Fixes

  • AI Advisor no longer fails a whole turn on one slow tool: Tool calls now time out after five minutes and cancel their underlying queries instead of erroring the entire agent turn.
  • Auto Investigations auto-refresh: Refresh now preserves your selection, respects cache intervals, and avoids unnecessary collection reloads.
  • Faster AI responses through prompt caching: Non-deterministic ordering in the Data Explorer, Connectivity Test, and A2A tool system prompts was fixed so prompt caching works, reducing latency.
  • Empty measurements hidden: Measurements whose metrics and dimensions are all hidden (due to old or missing LastSeen timestamps) no longer appear.
  • Column-to-column comparisons restored for kt_ dimensions: Comparison filtering works again in Data Explorer and Universal Data Explorer.
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