Alerting Enhancements
Kentik Detect’s powerful anomaly detection, alerting, and mitigation platform has gotten some improvements this month as well. Let’s take a look:
Support for Nested Filters
We have added support for nested filters in the alert policy dataset – similar to what has been available previously in Data Explorer’s sidebar. This is accessed from the Policies list (Alerting » Policies) by either clicking on an existing policy or clicking the blue Add Policy button. On the Dataset tab, you click on the Edit Filters button to bring up the Filtering Options dialog. For more information on configuring nested filters, check out our AdHoc Filter Interface KB article.
Manual Mitigation TTL
In our November Product Update we mentioned that we have added the ability to start a manual mitigation as opposed to triggering a one-off alert. We’ve now taken this a step further and added the ability to set a time to live (TTL) on the mitigation so it will automatically stop when the timer expires.
Escalating Thresholds
Our alerting system now supports escalating thresholds. A user can configure multiple Alert Thresholds with different criteria to trigger the threshold. As traffic matching the criteria increases or decreases, the appropriate thresholds will trigger. Different notifications can be tied to threshold level, but mitigation escalation is still under development. Stay tuned to future product updates for more details on that.
For more information on Kentik Detect’s powerful alerting system, check out our alerting KB articles or our recent blogs:
