---
title: "September 2026 - AI / Insights"
slug: "september-2026-ai-insights"
tags: ["AI Updates", "Insights Updates"]
updated: 2026-10-14T18:21:26Z
published: 2026-10-14T18:21:26Z
canonical: "kb.kentik.com/september-2026-ai-insights"
---

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# September 2026 - AI / Insights

The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for AI / Insights during September 2026.

## Features

- **AI Advisor as your default landing page**: You can now set AI Advisor as the page you land on after signing in.
- **New AI Advisor sidebar and chat history**: A persistent sidebar on the right side of the screen gives you chat history, recent chats, and AI settings. The sidebar is resizable, and chats auto-scroll until you scroll manually.
- **Answer permalinks**: Each AI Advisor answer comes with a permalink. Allows users who click a shared link to navigate to the answer.
- **Inline SVG diagrams**: AI Advisor now renders SVG diagrams inline, with zoom and export, instead of showing raw code. It adds to the existing Mermaid diagrams and can also generate charts from the data.
- **Role-based access control for Runbooks**: Runbooks are now subject to RBAC. Kentik-Managed Roles have been updated accordingly. Admins and super admins can create, edit, and delete runbooks. Standard members get read-only access by default, and AI Advisor respects these access levels.
- **Fuzzy device matching**: AI Advisor's device connections lookup now finds devices even when the name is slightly misspelled.
- **Clearer sub-agent activity**: Tool names now appear in readable form, and tool result panels are easier to follow.
- **Longer sub-agent runs**: The sub-agent tool timeout is now 10 minutes instead of 5, so AI Advisor can complete more complex multi-step analysis.
- **AI model updates**: Gemini 3.8 Flash and Claude Opus 5.5 were added, and the default models changed to Claude Sonnet 5 (advanced tier) and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (basic tier).

## Bug Fixes

- **Device config results in AI Advisor**: AI Advisor now shows real device config results. You can compare revisions, search config content with context lines, and view the latest config.
- **Markdown tables**: Fixed broken table rendering in AI Advisor chat, Settings, Pathfinder reports, Insight Details and Boards panels.
- **Command execution hangs**: AI Advisor no longer hangs on commands that paginate output.
- **Infinite loading in Custom Network Context**: Fixed endless loading when the context is empty or a version is missing.
- **Stale approvals**: Fixed a race condition in the approval workflow that could resume a stale approval.
- **Sub-agent replay**: Fixed duplicate or incorrect information in conversation history after replaying sub-agent steps.
- **Connectivity test errors**: Failed connectivity tests now return the error text instead of breaking the agent step.
- **Network metrics queries**: Removed an invalid "none" aggregation option that caused query failures.
- **Agents stopping early**: Fixed AI agents stopping early when an OpenAI model returned commentary along with tool calls.