---
title: "October 2026 - Alerting"
slug: "october-2026-alerting"
tags: ["Alerting Updates"]
status: "new"
updated: 2026-11-05T20:21:50Z
published: 2026-11-05T20:21:50Z
canonical: "kb.kentik.com/october-2026-alerting"
---

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# October 2026 - Alerting

The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for Alerting during October 2026.

## Features

- **Reworked Suppression**s: New create, edit and view pages with a live Match Preview. Criteria cover severities, several policies and applications (including Synthetics), plus device, site, and interface context filters. Statuses are Planned, Ongoing, Expired and Invalid, and each suppression has version history. Silences can no longer be created.
- **Flow policy grouping dimensions**: Dimension grouping for flow policies was revamped.
- **Device shown first in alert table**: For NMS and event alerts with more than 3 dimensions, the device now always appears first.

## Bug Fixes

- **Disabled severity levels**: Disabled levels are now respected. A trigger at a disabled level activates the next lower enabled level, and an alert whose level is disabled steps down or clears.
- **Mitigation edits**: Strategy, timer, and metadata changes to mitigations are now saved when you update a policy.
- **Bulk notification channels**: Bulk add now applies to all flow policy thresholds.
- **Device Type filter**: Flow policies with a Device Type filter now save correctly.
- **Alert charts**: Short spikes show at full height, the 1-minute peak is shown, and Data Explorer opens with a valid aggregation window. Port+Proto keys, long-running event alerts and tenant charts also work.
- **Cleared filter erro**r: Filtering by Cleared no longer shows "Error Occurred" when a severity was later removed from an event policy.
- **Empty dimension values**: "<empty>" values are no longer linked, which avoids lookup errors.
- **NMS policy edits**: Changing a policy's dimensions now opens new alerts as expected.
- **Deleted agents**: Alerts for deleted agent registrations are now retired.
- **Manual clears**: Manual clears now take effect immediately.
- **Rolling-window rules**: Editing a rule no longer causes a late alert or drops trigger context.
- **Duplicate alerts**: Conflicting active alerts with the same key are cleared silently.
- **AI Advisor**: Alert tools stay available when policy names repeat.