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June 2026 - Network Monitoring System (NMS)

  • Published on Jul 13, 2026
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The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for Network Monitoring System (NMS) during June 2026.

Features

  • Essential measurement support: Monitoring templates can now restrict collection to only essential metrics (for example, /components, /system, or /system/cpus/summary), reducing data collection overhead while preserving critical monitoring.
  • SNMPv3 authNoPriv support: Added support for SNMPv3 authNoPriv mode, allowing authentication without encryption.
  • Faster device updates and flexible custom columns: Improved device information retrieval and added options to control custom column loading for faster device processing.
  • Site as a queryable dimension: site-id is now available as a queryable dimension in NMS metrics without added storage cost.
  • New device SNMP support: Added SNMP monitoring support for Meraki cloud-managed devices, Check Point devices, and ITL devices, including trap notifications for status and hardware events.
  • Improved SNMP trap parsing: Extended trap parsing to correctly handle OSPF IPv4 address traps, integer-encoded BITS/numeric fields, and additional vendor encodings.
  • Hardened agent registration: Agent registration now supports mandatory provisioning tokens and approval gates for stronger security, and standby agent state is now exposed for cluster upgrades.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed monitoring deadlock: Resolved a deadlock between the update processor and managers that could cause extended monitoring outages.
  • Explicit + essential measurements: Fixed handling when both explicit measurements and essentials-only mode are configured together.
  • Classic threshold policies: Restored device_name storage so classic threshold policies relying on it continue to work.
  • Accedian trap parsing: Fixed trap parsing for Accedian devices so their alarms are received and processed correctly.
  • Agent re-registration: Fixed an issue where previously approved agents re-entered the pending approval state on re-registration, improved agent recovery with new provisioning tokens, and made the install endpoint accept both token parameters.
  • SNMP OID matching: Fixed OID prefix matching so traps with out-of-order varbinds parse correctly, reducing spurious errors.
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