Release Notes 2025
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
- NMS NLQ: Ensured that if a filter is used, that metric is also included in the main query
- Journeys, new models: gpt-4o-11-20, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Codestral, Mistral Large
- Updated Journeys UI
Alerting
- Fixed "invalid date" on policy suppression date picker
- Fixed silent mode date serialization
- Fixed Alerting Overview loading bug
- Recon 1535/BGP display in alert table
- Fixed metrics up/down charts for NMS component entity alerts
- Fixed BGP alert dimension labels
- Performance improvements for alert detail requests
- Fixed alerting table infinite scroll
Cloud
- Fixed bug in Availability Zone metadata fetch
- Improved AWS Metrics Sidebar Link
- 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
- Fixed cloud export wiz unsampled bug
Core
- Applied device RBAC to subscriptions
- Increased device name max length to 256
- Enhanced highcharts tooltips
- PR Label Validation
- Fixed empty UDR columns, DNS traffic nav link, and various tooltip issues
- Added EdgeNext and Netskrt CDNs
- Required IDP Certification and added Pendo Account information
- Added Contains and Regex to Cloud Service Filter
- Fixed update user test
- Removed install button for agents not yet authorized
- Fixed slow rendering of saved filters edit dialog
- Audit Log: Fix user column for generic events
- Fixed clearPlotBandsAndZones highcharts issue
- API schemas auto-generate typescript definitions
- Updated to new version of prettier
- Trimmed IDP certification to pass validation
- Fixed Sample Rate in device sidebar
- Various Traffic Costs improvements and fixes
- Prevented create site error during onboard when missing address
- Fixed saved filter showing loading spinner
- Added kproxy 7.49 commit hash
- Core, AI: Kentik Probable Cause Beta
- Initial pass at storage referrer on SSO login
- Added SSO URL back to the login page
- Fixed PDF exports
- Fixed node-job-update-traffic-cost-history
- Added node-jobs service to regular deployment workflow
- 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
- Updated certification location from docker volume mount
- Prevented rows in cost csv with unknown sites from being excluded
- Removed V5 API Tester Link
- Fixed Connectivity Costs logic when ensuring each timestamp slice is accounted for
NMS
- Made NMS Alerting on the default for all non-on-prems
- 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
- Preserved notifications when enabling/disabling NMS policies
Synthetics
- Fix Synth Library Health
- Fixed grace period/test frequency validation for preview tests
- 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
- Fixed Synth Library Health
- Updated http latency in test results to not display zero (0)
- Fixed Synth Path View agent filter
- Allowed local domains in Synth URL Fields
- Ensured Synth plan is active when fetching Synth plan
- Shortened timeframe for clicking from the incident log or notification details
- Ensured reciprocal agent-to-agent credits calculation