Kentik employs a continuous deployment methodology for constant extension and refinement of the Kentik v4 portal and the underlying Kentik platform. Release notes for each successive month of Kentik v4 updates are covered in the following topics:
Note:
For additional insight into what’s new with Kentik, be sure to check the Product Updates page of our website.
January 2025
AI / Insights
Journeys: Added query and NMS results to context
Journeys, new models: gpt-4o-11-20, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Codestral, Mistral Large
Updated Journeys UI
NMS NLQ: Ensured that if a filter is used, that metric is also included in the main query
Alerting
Recon 1535/BGP display in alert table
Performance improvements for alert detail requests
Fixed "invalid date" on policy suppression date picker
Fixed silent mode date serialization
Fixed Alerting Overview loading bug
Fixed metrics up/down charts for NMS component entity alerts
Fixed BGP alert dimension labels
Fixed alerting table infinite scroll
Cloud
AWS configuration status reporting missing API calls
AWS: Added new version and API support for cloud export API to allow/block list updates
Removed “beta” from connectivity checker page and menu, and added other copy changes
Improved AWS Metrics Sidebar Link
Fixed cloud export wiz unsampled bug
Fixed bug in Availability Zone metadata fetch
Core
Applied device RBAC to subscriptions
Increased device name max length to 256
Enhanced highcharts tooltips
PR Label Validation
Required IDP Certification and added Pendo Account information
Added EdgeNext and Netskrt CDNs
Added Contains and Regex to Cloud Service Filter
Added kproxy 7.49 commit hash
Added SSO URL back to the login page
Added node-jobs service to regular deployment workflow
Removed install button for agents not yet authorized
Removed V5 API Tester Link
API schemas auto-generate typescript definitions
Updated certification location from docker volume mount
Trimmed IDP certification to pass validation
Various Traffic Costs improvements and fixes
Prevented create site error during onboard when missing address
Core, AI: Kentik Cause Analysis Beta
Initial pass at storage referrer on SSO login
Exports: Allowed png report, fix NMS report
DE: Made device name filter case insensitive
Global Search: Pressing ENTER now goes to the correct search result
Traffic Costs: handled record missing better
Prevented rows in cost csv with unknown sites from being excluded
Fixed empty UDR columns, DNS traffic nav link, and various tooltip issues
Fixed slow rendering of saved filters edit dialog
Audit Log: Fixed user column for generic events
Fixed clearPlotBandsAndZones highcharts issue
Fixed Sample Rate in device sidebar
Fixed saved filter showing loading spinner
Fixed PDF exports
Fixed node-job-update-traffic-cost-history
Fixed Connectivity Costs logic when ensuring each timestamp slice is accounted for
Network Monitoring System (NMS)
Made NMS Alerting on the default for all non-on-prems
Preserved notifications when enabling/disabling NMS policies
Fixed association of warning/severe notifications with NMS policies
Fixed charts and ME for BGP entity NMS alerts
Fixed NMS notifications for warning and severe levels
Synthetics
Aligned test type names between the “Add Test” page and the TCC filters
Global agent:target pair no longer displays traffic charts
Updated Synth threshold validation
Improved Synth scheduled tests
Updated http latency in test results to not display zero (0)
Allowed local domains in Synth URL Fields
Ensured Synth plan is active when fetching Synth plan
Ensured reciprocal agent-to-agent credits calculation
Shortened timeframe for clicking from the incident log or notification details
Fixed Synth Library Health
Fixed grace period/test frequency validation for preview tests
Fixed Synth Library Health
Fixed Synth Path View agent filter
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