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March 2026

  • Updated on Jul 7, 2026
  • Published on Jul 6, 2026
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The following updates were released to the Kentik platform during March 2026.

AI / Insights

Features

  • AI Auto Investigations: New Auto Investigations tab in Kentik AI lets you create investigation configurations tied to specific policies, enable/disable automatic investigations per policy, set an investigation delay, and assign notification channels and runbooks.
  • AI Advisor report subscriptions: Schedule AI Advisor conversations to run automatically on a recurring basis and receive the results by email with a PDF attachment — ideal for recurring NOC/shift summaries.
  • AI-generated notification summaries: Email and Slack alert notifications now include AI-generated short and long summaries of network issues, with improved formatting and severity badges.
  • AI Advisor token budget management: Conversations handle large contexts more gracefully through soft/hard token limits and progressive message compression.
  • Smarter model lifecycle: Deprecated AI models are transparently redirected to their replacements at request time, so existing integrations keep working without manual changes.

Bug Fixes

  • KMI export filenames: Market Intelligence exports now include a unique timestamp (and the ASN number on ASN exports) to prevent filename collisions across multiple exports.
  • AI Advisor PDF export robustness: Link resolution now correctly handles code blocks and inline code so exported PDFs don't rewrite literal code examples.
  • AI Advisor wide table scrolling: Tables with many columns now scroll horizontally instead of overflowing.
  • AI Advisor emoji rendering: Fixes a case where emoji failed to render in AI Advisor markdown responses.
  • AI Advisor inline code styling: Inline code now uses a subtle background that integrates better with surrounding text.
  • Rich entity popovers: Improves reliability and correctness of entity popovers, including special-character handling and a fix for 0 Mbps display.

Alerting

Features

  • Alert comments API: Create and list comments on alerts through the public API, enabling better integration with external systems and alert documentation workflows.
  • Filter suppressions by device name: The Suppressions & Silences page now lets you filter and search silences by device name in addition to device ID.
  • Bulk create policies from templates: Create multiple policies from selected templates in a single action, with batch tracking and a toast link to the newly created policies.
  • Improved policy type selector: The Unified Policy type selector now uses a card-based visual interface, making it easier to choose between NMS, Flow, BGP Neighbor, Device, Interface, Component, and Agent policy types.
  • ServiceNow Event API support: ServiceNow notification channels can now use either the Table API or the new Event API, with dedicated event templates.
  • Notification template presets & validation: Browse preset notification templates and validate templates before deployment with detailed error reporting.
  • Subpolicy updates with disabled parents: You can now update subpolicies via bulk operations even when the parent policy is disabled.

Bug Fixes

  • Send test notification from preview: The "Send Test Notification" button in the notification preview now works correctly.
  • Preserve threshold settings on enable/disable: Enabling or disabling a policy no longer overwrites threshold frequency/activation settings.
  • Notification usage table: Fixes excessive loading and confusing tenant-policy notification usage display; subpolicies now show individual entries.

Cloud

Features

  • Cloud Pathfinder performance & accuracy: Faster connectivity reports that load only the relevant accounts, with the ability to run security group tests on ENIs and more accurate results.
  • More cost charges per group: The connectivity cost charge limit has been raised from 10 to 100 per cost group, enabling more granular cost configuration.
  • Cloud topology metadata API: Cloud Topology Metadata API jobs now initialize and run correctly, enabling proper fetching and management of cloud topology metadata.
  • Cloud API observability: New metrics provide visibility into cloud integration health by provider and status code, helping identify problematic providers and troubleshoot connectivity.
  • Cloud Map without cloud devices: The overview map now shows cloud provider icons when cloud regions exist even if there are no cloud devices, so you can navigate to the Cloud Map for metadata-only exports.

Bug Fixes

  • Cloud Map loading: Simplifies cloud-export detection so the topology map loads without unnecessary empty states.
  • CloudPak FPS warning: The "Received FPS is high" warning now appears only when received FPS actually exceeds the plan's max FPS.
  • Complete flow enrichments: A failure to fetch kt_ enrichment columns is now treated as a fatal error, preventing flow data from shipping with missing enrichments.
  • Correct SPN credentials: Fixes a query that could deliver expired/duplicate Azure SPN credentials, ensuring customers receive the latest valid credentials.
  • Preserve AWS action/status enrichment: Stops ingest-time tagging from overwriting proper enrichment values (e.g., ACCEPT/OK) for AWS flow.

NMS

Features

  • SNMP polling health metrics: The default flow monitoring template now includes SNMP polling health measurements so you can monitor and tune SNMP polling.
  • Run only listed reports: A new monitoring-template option lets you run only explicitly selected reports instead of automatically including new ones.
  • Monitoring template UX improvements: Adds measurement filtering, bulk Select All/Deselect All, a new Interfaces measurement category, and read-only mode for preset/system templates.
  • Remote SNMP walk for flow-enrichment devices: Remote SNMP walk now also works for flow-enrichment devices using Universal Agent.
  • Flexible BGP MD5 passwords: BGP MD5 password validation now allows additional printable ASCII characters (;, #, @, ,), aligning with RFC 2385 and major vendors. (The space character and ? are not permitted.)
  • IS-IS neighbor navigation: Restores clickable hyperlinks to neighbor devices in IS-IS topology details for easier navigation between related devices.
  • iPower and Minuteman support: Adds SNMP monitoring profiles for iPower PDU and Minuteman RPM1581 PDU, including voltage, current, load, and environmental metrics.
  • Config snapshot soft-delete: Device configuration snapshots are now soft-deleted, preserving records for audit and recovery.

Bug Fixes

  • Syslog recency off-by-1000: Fixes a calculation error that caused devices with infrequent syslog to incorrectly appear as having no syslog data; the Syslog tab and indicator now reflect the intended two-week window.
  • Temperature unit display: Metric cards and tooltips now show °C instead of % for temperature.
  • Optic metrics display: Supply voltage and temperature now display reliably in the interface table by separating the queries.
  • BGP prefixes display: BGP sent/received prefix counts now display correctly for device neighbors by splitting the query.
  • Combined utilization plot: The SNMP interface utilization graph now scales to the data instead of a fixed 100%, fixing inaccurate 0% readings.
  • This/Last Month time ranges: Fixes off-by-one errors at month boundaries for "This Month" and "Last Month" ranges.
  • Overview Map health: Corrects inbound vs outbound health-class assignment in the Overview Map.
  • NMS usage metrics: Fixes device ID assignment for the NMS usage metric and removes stale BGP neighbor entries from the UI.

Platform

Features

  • Configurable landing pages: Administrators can set default landing pages (Observation Deck, Dashboard, Saved View, and more) per user and per role-set, with bulk assignment and filtering.
  • RBAC for Observation Decks: New "Observation Deck Viewers" and "Observation Deck Administrators" custom roles enable granular access control for boards.
  • Permission-aware landing-page assignment: Assigning boards/decks/dashboards/saved views now enforces RBAC and label access, preventing assignment to pages a user can't access.
  • Single panel to dashboard: Convert a single-panel view into a full dashboard with a new "Add to Dashboard" action.
  • Board variables: A new variables system enables flexible board-level filtering with guided and custom variable types and multi-value selection, with a guided mode for managing variables.
  • Add to Observation Deck dialog: Choose which Observation Deck to add panels to from the Data Explorer, instead of always adding to the default deck.
  • Recently viewed Boards: Recent views now include Boards alongside Dashboards and Saved Views, correctly deduplicated and ordered most-recent-first.
  • Query API alpha1: Authenticated, rate-limited access to the Query API via the API gateway.

Bug Fixes

  • Persistent device table columns: Your custom column selections on the Devices page now persist across page loads.
  • Licenses page layout: Fixes z-index layering so license add-on cards overlap as designed.
  • PeeringDB exchange interface removal: Deselected interfaces are now properly removed on save, and a 500 error on Custom-Facilities entries is fixed.
  • PeeringDB dialog scrolling: Fixes scrolling and alignment in the peering database dialog.
  • Custom dimension search: Adds field-limit support to the custom dimensions populator API for better search performance.
  • Boards label-based access: Fixes label-based RBAC permissions for Boards.
  • Agent connection stability: Adds gRPC keepalive pings so idle agent connections aren't dropped by proxies.

Synthetics

Features

  • Pre-alert context in alert charts: Alert details charts now show 30 minutes of pre-alert context by default, prioritizing raw data granularity.
  • Private IP shown in traceroute: When a test is configured to use private IP, the agent's private IP is shown in the traceroute popover for easier debugging.
  • Device metrics in path view: The traceroute popover now displays device CPU and memory metrics.
  • Test results sidebar & agent links: A new right drawer on the test results page shows test configuration and health settings, with metric health tooltips and navigation links to agent summaries.
  • Traceroute horizontal scrolling: Traceroute charts with many columns now scroll horizontally for easier viewing of complex paths.

Bug Fixes

  • Bidirectional test reverse path: Bidirectional agent-to-agent tests now display both directions in the path view.
  • Path view error/discard metrics: Path View now uses the correct directional input/output error and discard metrics.
  • Standard deviation health units: Strengthens validation of standard-deviation units for tests, especially those created via API.
  • Test config fixes: Fixes HTTP test response headers being populated from request headers and DNS-over-ICMP tests incorrectly setting the target port to zero.
  • Used credits display: Fixes a "NaN" value for synthetic test used credits.
  • DNS alert metric name: DNS test alerts now show the correct "dnsLatency" metric name.
  • Zombie task prevention: Prevents deleted/stopped synthetic tasks from continuing to execute in the background.

Traffic

Features

  • Expanded observability service support: Flow enrichment now recognizes 24 additional observability/monitoring services (including Cisco ThousandEyes, Catchpoint, ExtraHop, SevOne, LogicMonitor, Coralogix, Cribl, Chronosphere, Site24x7, Auvik, Obkio, SolarWinds, CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale, Broadcom Wavefront, InfluxDB Cloud, BigPanda, HPE OpsRamp, UptimeRobot, Rollbar, and Logz.io) plus updates to New Relic, Datadog, and Sentry.
  • More cost charges per group: The connectivity cost charge limit has been raised from 10 to 100 per cost group, enabling more granular cost configuration.

Bug Fixes

  • GMP1 flow ingest port: Corrects the displayed flow ingest port (9995) in the Device dialog.
  • Stale interface cost charges: Charges for interfaces no longer in a cost group are skipped, preventing incorrect cost calculations.
  • PeeringDB remove button visibility: Fixes a hidden remove button when interface descriptions are long in the PeeringDB integration.
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