Hey, Kentik community! 👋

Many of you told us that managing alerts can feel too manual, fragmented across tools, and noisy with unnecessary notifications. We've listened to your feedback and have expanded our capabilities to provide you with more granular control over your alerting environment with the launch of Alerting API v6! This new version is available through REST endpoints and gRPC RPCs, extending the existing Alerting API features. That means you can plug alerting directly into your existing workflows and systems, so automation and integration happen where you already work. Enable your teams with automation, cut down on alert fatigue, and gain clearer visibility into your mitigations with this new update. 

What's the Value?

These new capabilities provide you with unprecedented automation and control, saving you time and effort. With Alerting API v6, you can:

• Automate your incident response: Integrate Kentik Alerting with your existing tools to automatically create tickets, trigger scripts, or execute other actions when an alert fires.
• Enhance network visibility: Get real-time, programmatic access to the status of your alerts and mitigations, giving you a clear picture of your network's health.
• Reduce alert fatigue: Use the new silence and suppression features to fine-tune your alerting policies and reduce unnecessary notifications, so your team can focus on what matters most.

What's New?

The new V6 Alerting API is a huge leap forward, offering a comprehensive suite of new methods to streamline your alerting workflows. Beyond the ability to manage alerts, you can now programmatically control the entire alert lifecycle, from suppression to mitigation.

Here's a look at some of the exciting new features:

• List alerts or a single alert: Get a complete overview of all your alerts or drill down into the details of a specific one to investigate and troubleshoot.
• List policies: Pull a list of all your alerting policies to keep a pulse on what's configured in your environment.
• List mitigations: See all active, inactive, and failed mitigations to ensure your network is protected.
• List mitigation methods and platforms: Gain a full view of your mitigation infrastructure, including all available methods and platforms.
• Create a manual mitigation: Start a manual mitigation programmatically without needing to use the Kentik portal.
• Create, update, and delete silences and suppressions: Take control of alert notifications by creating, updating, or deleting silences and suppressions to prevent unwanted noise during maintenance windows or other planned events.
• Acknowledge and clear an alert: Programmatically acknowledge an alert to let your team know you're on the case and clear it once the issue is resolved.

Check out the  API Tester section of the portal to see all the new v202505 Alerting endpoints!