2026-01-12 to 2026-01-18

AI / Insights

AI Advisor: Improved command and config tools for large device fleets — The AI Advisor's device command and configuration tools now handle large numbers of devices more efficiently, making it easier to run commands or retrieve configs across many devices at once.
NMS device filters for Config Backup and AI Command Tool Access — The NMS Devices settings view now includes two new filter options: "Config Backed Up" (filter devices by whether their configuration has been backed up) and "AI Command Tool Access" (filter devices by whether SSH/command access is enabled for AI tools).
AI Advisor MCP Server support — The Kentik AI Advisor now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, enabling integration with MCP-compatible AI clients and tools.
AI Advisor Agent-to-Agent (A2A) support — Added Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol support to the Kentik AI Advisor, enabling AI agents to communicate and collaborate with each other for more complex, multi-step network analysis tasks.

Fixed duplicate AI tenant configurations — Resolved an issue where customers who changed and then reverted their AI model settings would still have stale custom model configurations applied. The AI Gateway now correctly deduplicates tenant configs, ensuring the right model is always used.
AI Advisor mitigation tools now correctly enabled based on account permissions — Fixed an issue where mitigation-related tools (BGP mitigation announcements, mitigation platform methods, mitigation events) were not properly gated by account permissions in the AI Advisor, ensuring tools are only available when the customer has mitigations configured.

New plain text email option for alert notifications — Alert notification channels now support sending emails as plain text (in addition to HTML). This is useful for customers whose email clients or workflows require plain text format.
Custom notification template updates —Customers can now choose which data to include in their alert notifications.
Cloudflare Mitigation (CFMT) authentication error messages improved — When a Cloudflare Magic Transit mitigation platform fails to authenticate (e.g., wrong API token), the platform status now shows a clear, detailed error message including the HTTP status code and Cloudflare error details, making it easier to diagnose configuration issues.

Synthetic alert email notifications now show correct fields per alert type — Email notifications for synthetic alerts now display the appropriate fields based on the synthetic alert type (grouped, agent, or subtest). Previously, some fields were shown incorrectly or inconsistently across alert types.
Fixed alerting API bug — Resolved a bug in the alerting configuration store related to the Alert API. Customers may have experienced incorrect alert behavior that is now corrected.
Fixed custom notification header serialization — Resolved a bug where custom headers in notification channels were not being correctly serialized when saving, which could cause notification delivery issues for customers using custom HTTP headers.
Fixed severity format in notification preview — The notification preview/test feature was sending an incorrectly formatted severity field. This is now fixed so previews accurately reflect what will be sent in real alerts.
Fixed synthetic alert notification issue — Resolved a bug in synthetic alert notification delivery that was causing some synthetic alert notifications to not be sent correctly.

Fixed CloudPak component not rendering on License and Public Clouds pages — A permission string bug was preventing the CloudPak usage chart from rendering on the License and Public Clouds pages. This is now fixed, and customers with CloudPak entitlements will see the correct usage information.

License page redesign — The License page has been redesigned with an updated layout and improved visual components. Customers will see a cleaner, more informative view of their Kentik license and usage.
Device Details performance improvements — Initial performance improvements to the Device Details page, reducing load times for customers with large numbers of devices.
NMS device temperature query performance improvement — Optimized the device temperature data query to use a 6-hour lookback window and dynamically limit results based on the number of devices, improving page load performance for customers with large device fleets.

Fixed device label display in NMS device table — Resolved a bug where device labels could fail to display correctly in the NMS device table when label data was incomplete or missing.
Fixed floating point rounding in NMS metric exports — NMS metrics exported from the Universal Agent now have floating point values correctly rounded before export, preventing spurious precision artifacts in metric data.

New device filters: Config Backed Up and AI Command Tool Access — (See Features in the AI / Insights section, above.) Customers can now filter their NMS device list by config backup status and AI command tool access.
Interface reports merge (interface-merge-all) — The interface-merge-all bundle is now deployed, which merges interface measurement reports from multiple polling sources. This improves accuracy of interface rate metrics for devices polled by multiple agents.

Fixed NMS alert counter widget showing incorrect values (NMS-478) — The NMS alerting history widget was displaying swapped/incorrect alert count values due to flipped getter functions. This is now corrected.
Fixed false "unsaved changes" warnings when editing synthetic tests — When editing a synthetic test, users were incorrectly seeing "unsaved changes" warnings even when no changes had been made. This is now fixed.

Topology route analysis performance improvements — Significant performance improvements to the topology route analysis engine used by Synthetics, reducing analysis time for large topologies.
Topology map improvements — Improvements to the topology map visualization, including better map visibility/readability, legend and click-through instruction layout fixes, and a more functional web demo.

Fixed false "unsaved changes" warnings when editing synthetic tests — (See Bug Fixes in the NMS section, above.)