The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for Platform during March, 2026.
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.