The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for Traffic during July 2026.
Features
- New OTT services detected: Traffic classification now recognizes itvX, Zapi, Altibox, Fetch TV, Sky News Australia, and CursorAI, with updates to existing patterns for Fox Sports, Amazon Prime Video, Spotify, TikTok, Office 365, Roblox, and Apple location services. SBS Video was renamed to SBS On-demand.
- Expanded coverage for World Cup 2026 streaming: Additional CDN hostname patterns were added for Peacock TV, Fox Sports, Amazon Prime Video, and Swann Security so that streaming traffic is classified accurately during the tournament.
- Faster flow ingest receive path: Chunked message handling was optimized to eliminate redundant copies, the read buffer was increased from 4 KiB to 128 KiB, and metric batching reduces contention — addressing drops observed at very high flow rates. Queue depth monitoring was also added.
- v2 streaming enabled by default: The traffic agent and HTTP chunk transport now default to the v2 streaming path, which uses a shared backpressure fan-out dispatcher instead of one stream per capture goroutine.
- Automatic recovery when flow stops: FlowProxy now restarts itself when it detects no traffic for a configured period, recovering from parsing problems or processing deadlocks without intervention.
- Faster BGP convergence after session flaps: End-of-RIB markers are now processed directly from BMP updates, so the system no longer waits for an MRT RIB dump after a BGP session flap.
- Flow enrichment with Kentik NMS metrics: ktranslate can map Kentik metric definitions from a CSV file to enrich flows with custom metrics and dimensions, supporting masks, types, units, and dimension mappings.
Bug Fixes
- OTT sparklines reflect all sub-categories: OTT Service sparklines were showing only the top sub-category; they now merge all sub-category data and match the Data Explorer view.
- OTT Service Tracking subscriber tab: Bar chart column widths for 1-day lookbacks, chart axis break calculation, and label text spacing were all corrected.
- Data Explorer results with empty lookups: An empty lookup value caused a rendering error; the fallback value (for example, the VPC ID) is now shown instead.
- Exports complete when a query errors: A query error no longer blocks the export process from finishing.
- OpenTelemetry metrics no longer dropped on invalid UTF-8: SNMP strings such as ifAlias and sysName that contain non-UTF-8 bytes are now hex-encoded rather than causing whole export batches to be dropped, so devices like Commvault export metrics successfully.
- Devices receiving the wrong interfaces: A device ID matching check now prevents interfaces from being assigned to the wrong device through the API.
- OTT capacity treemap restored: A missing chart module broke the treemap on the OTT Service Details Capacity tab.