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