--- title: "September - 2026" slug: "september-2026" tags: ["Release Notes", "AI Updates", "Insights Updates", "Cloud Updates", "NMS Updates", "Platform Updates", "Synthetics Updates", "Traffic Updates"] updated: 2026-10-15T19:54:17Z published: 2026-10-15T19:54:17Z canonical: "kb.kentik.com/september-2026" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://kb.kentik.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # September - 2026 The following updates were released to the Kentik platform during September 2026. ## AI / Insights The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for AI / Insights: ### 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. ## Alerting The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for Alerting: ### Features - **Keep and view suppressed alerts**: Suppressed alerts are now kept, and you can list alerts to exclude, include or show only suppressed ones. Notifications are no longer sent for suppressed alert activations. - **Suppression preview**: You can preview which alerts a suppression will match before saving it. - **Faster, more flexible suppressions**: Suppressions reload faster, can start immediately, and the minimum start delay drops from 15 minutes to 1 minute. You can create and edit suppressions and see version history with edit time and user. - **More suppression filters and display names**: You can filter suppressions by multiple rule IDs, applications and severities. Suppressions can have a display name, and "as soon as possible" start and end choices are kept for display. - **A10 Defense Orchestrator support**: When you set up A10 DDoS mitigation, you can choose between the Direct-To-Thunder flow and the new A10 Defense Orchestrator flow. The orchestrator flow uses token-only authentication, and the choice is locked after you create the platform. - **Richer interface context in alerts**: Alert triggers now include interface ID, provider and network boundary, so interface-based filtering works when a device is also specified. - **Pagination for the device alert table**: The alerts table on the Device Details page now has pagination. ### Bug Fixes - **Blank alert emails in Outlook for Mac**: Alert emails now render correctly in Outlook for Mac. - **Device links in the alerting table**: Fixed broken device links for kevent alerts and for alerts with missing device names. - **Report schedule errors**: Opening a report with a malformed URL no longer causes an error. ## Cloud The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for Cloud: ### Features - **More reliable Azure topology collection**: Azure metadata collection now retries only transient errors, honoring Azure's Retry-After guidance, and refresh access tokens before they expire during long-running collections. - **More reliable GCP topology collection**: GCP metadata collection refresh now runs with built-in retries for better reliability. - **More reliable OCI topology collection**: OCI metadata collection now runs per compartment with built-in retries. ### Bug Fixes - **Azure "Maximum call stack size exceeded" errors**: Fixed errors that could interrupt Azure resource enumeration when Kentik retrieved Azure cloud metadata under load. - **AWS VPC names in Data Explorer**: Data Explorer now uses the AWS topology summary to look up VPC names, so VPC names are more accurate and consistent in query results. - **AWS Direct Connect BGP prefix metrics**: Changed how AWS Direct Connect virtual interface BGP prefix metrics are aggregated, and added missing metric mappings. ## NMS The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for NMS: ### Features - **Delete config revisions**: You can delete a device configuration revision, after a confirmation. The list then refreshes and shows the latest revision. - **Traps and syslogs in the Telemetry tab**: Device Details shows whether SNMP traps and syslog messages arrived in the last 24 hours and which agents received them. - **VRF names and filtering**: VRF column names appear in Device Details and metrics interface tables, with VRF name filtering and sorting. - **Celestica devices**: Celestica devices show vendor icons and system details such as model. - **VyOS and Aruba AOS-CX config backup**: Config backup now supports VyOS and Aruba AOS-CX over SSH. - **New device support**: A10 Thunder virtual-server reports, per-CPU and component metrics; MikroTik hardware component and sensor reports; F5 BIG-IP APM metrics; Huawei model matching; Arista CoPP stats; Check Point interface speeds; interface name and alias enrichment for Arista measurements. - **Device profiles**: Cisco Catalyst 9000 now identifies correctly. New Panduit PDU energy metrics. New A10 Networks and Arista VXLAN MIBs. ### Bug Fixes - **Interface classification banner and table**: The dashboard banner no longer shows 0% classification, and the Devices table shows current classification (it can take up to an hour to update). Classifications now apply correctly. - **Device bulk labels**: Bulk labels now apply all selected labels even when a filter is active. - **Metrics picker errors**: Metrics that can't be queried are hidden, and you get clear errors instead of SQL errors. - **Monitoring profile counts**: Device counts under Settings > Monitoring Profiles are correct again. - **Data retention and sorting**: The default NMS data retention is 390 days and can't be edited. Queries have a default sort order. - **Code editor and SNMP icons**: Fixed a CodeMirror crash and SNMP icons for Ranger devices. - **Device fixes**: Arista port-channel speed over gNMI, IS-IS neighbor hostnames, FortiGate component status, and Cisco SB stacked fan and temperature reports. Config preview shows byte values as strings. - **Interface classification performance**: Improved performance for regex-based classification rules and the initial classification load. ## Platform The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for Platform: ### Features - **Flow Proxy as one capability**: The two Universal Agent flow-proxy capabilities are now one "Flow Proxy" with a Forwarding Mode and a Compatibility Mode. - **Batch user changes in the Provisioning API**: You can update or delete up to 100 users in one request, identifying users by ID or email. - **Faster device lookups**: Device search and lookups are asynchronous and cached across several pages. - **SSO warning on user level**: The user level warning now says SSO overrides local settings only when SSO mapping claims are assigned. - **Agent tunnels**: Kentik agents can accept SaaS requests through a conduit-based tunnel behind NAT or firewalls. ### Bug Fixes - **Device table**: The following Device table bugs were fixed: - Select All works again. - Stale filters are cleared. - Device statistics are correct. - 500 errors for very large companies are fixed. - **Licensing queries**: Flow-per-second license queries use `device_id` - **Onboarding warnings**: Warnings about alert policies for Universal Agents appear only if you have agents. - **Signup security**: Removed the seamless sign-in token from the anonymous signup response so email verification can't be bypassed. - **Login page**: Fixed the advertisement layout at narrower widths. - **Licenses on inactive accounts**: License creation on pending or inactive accounts is now blocked. - **Board variable names**: Duplicate names are now blocked. ## Synthetics The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for Synthetics: ### Features - **Rebuilt Agents page**: The Agents page has sortable columns, filters (type, status, capabilities, provider, tests, labels, ASN, region, country, IP config), pagination and an interactive map. A new "Unknown" health state separates lookup failures from missing agents. Global agent health is now visible to all users. - **Static IP for all agents**: Users with agent configuration permission can now turn on static IP for any Synthetics agent. - **Updated capability drawer**: The Synthetics capability drawer has a new layout and clearer toggle labels. Read-only fields are permission-checked. - **Filter by enum values**: You can filter synthetic test results by health status, DNS response code and HTTP status code, using readable labels. ### Bug Fixes - **Infinite spinner when adding a private agent**: The install command now loads when you add a private agent. - **Tests page search**: Search on the Tests page now matches only display name and ID, so results are consistent. - **BGP route viewer errors**: Fixed errors that could crash the page when BGP configuration was missing or incomplete. - **Alarm timeline errors**: Fixed browser errors on the synthetic alarm timeline when the chart updates. - **Path view metric labels**: Fixed a metric mislabel in path view health results. ## Traffic The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for Traffic: ### Features - **Reverse DNS hostname dimensions**: You can now group by and filter on reverse DNS source and destination hostnames (`rdns_src_hostname`, `rdns_dst_hostname`) for the traffic measurement. - **Measurement breadcrumb**: A breadcrumb in the Data Explorer panel header lets you switch measurements from dropdown menus. - **Legend opacity control**: The Data Explorer legend has a row for adjusting series opacity. - **EdgeIX provider logo**: EdgeIX now appears with its logo in Connectivity Costs. ### Bug Fixes - **Live updates stopping after 10 minutes**: Fixed Data Explorer auto-update stopping silently after 10 minutes. - **OTT dimensions without a license**: OTT dimensions are hidden when you aren't licensed for them. - **PeeringDB IX lookups**: Fixed exchange and facility name lookups, including AMSIX and DECIX FRA aliases. - **Missing metrics metadata**: Metrics views no longer crash when metadata is missing. - **Filter by Universal Agent ID**: You can now filter by Universal Agent ID in Data Explorer. - **Query filter accuracy**: Multi-device port filters no longer return rows from other devices. - CIDR filters with LIKE/regex no longer under-count. - LIKE values with special characters now match literally. - `= ANY(...)` list filters now work. - Raw row queries no longer drop duplicate rows. - NOT LIKE works on custom columns. - Regex backslashes are no longer doubled. - Empty strings in IN lists are now matched. - Ordering by start or end time now works.