Since we released our AI Advisor agent, we've been noticing a steady and consistent increase of its usage throughout our user base. When discussing with our customers to understand how they use it, we usually notice a couple things:

• More often than not, a few champions within the company use AI Advisor in a rather advanced fashion, chaining prompts that leverage different data-sets;
• The rest of the users mostly use AI Advisor in a one-shot pattern of question, answer, then move on.

Some of our key conclusions are

1. AI (Advisor) is a muscle: unless you keep exercising it and attempt new prompts, it is hard for users to wrap their heads around what AI Advisor can do that they haven't yet discovered
2. Emulation is key to adoption: constant exposure to successful/fruitful AI Advisor sessions is a big factor for internal adoption, and helps users develop a sense of the "field of the possibles" in terms of its usage
3. Sometimes (often) you need to share things with non Kentik users: Whether attaching investigation context for post-incident reporting, or sharing a network planning exercise with others in the organization, we see many needs to be able to create a sharable, portable artifact that is better than "copy & paste."

For that reason, we're adding a couple features for users to share sessions recorded as PDF.

Export AI Advisor chat sessions as PDF

Title says it all: with this function, users can now download any chat session, current or past as a PDF file and share it with other users.

When using AI Advisor in the chat popover mode, you'll notice these series of icons in the title bar, one of them will download the current chat session as a PDF

When using AI Advisor in Full screen mode, 

In both cases, a green toast will let you know when your export is ready with a link to save it as a PDF

Cranking it up a notch: Scheduled Export Subscriptions

This is when things get interesting: building on this foundation, we added a capability for AI Advisor to run offline, on a schedule.
First off head to Company Settings > Reports Subscriptions

AI Advisor

which will give you access to configuration options for your scheduled AI Advisor Report

• Naming the PDF file exported
• Email recipients to configure it for (TO, CC, BCC)
• Scheduling options (daily, weekly, monthly, last day of the month)
• A field for the prompt you want AI Advisor to run and export as a PDF

Here's an idea of how we've seen this feature being used: 

1. Schedule a report to be run every Monday morning and set to your inbox
2. Configure the report to rely on the following prompt: 

"Give me a summary of anything critical that has happened over the past weekend, only display a table of summary action items, each one with their level of priority"

Here's an extract of a sample report you could receive in your inbox after a busy weekend

...another example, derived from this one:

• Network Config Changes made over the weekend can be seen as riskier because of only On-Call staff being available to review them
• Sometimes these changes are made in emergency to temporarily solve a customer issue and need to be reviewed on Monday when all the engineering staff is present
• Kentik's NMS offering now by default includes Config Back and Diff'ing for devices enrolled in it, meaning AI Advisor knows about any change made at anytime, by anyone.

What about getting a weekend config change summary on Monday delivered to the Engineering team's inbox to review ?

A scheduled prompt like this one would do the trick

"Show me a summary of all device config changes that have happened over the weekend on all devices, including who made the change

Which would yield a PDF report similar to the one below

How do I make the best use of AI Advisor Scheduled Reports?

This feature really shines when used in conjunction with our AI Runbooks (see the AI Advisor release announcement): with Runbooks, our users can instruct AI Advisor to follow a specific procedure, featuring

• Natural language instructions that mirror your own operating procedures
• A step by step detailed reasoning containing what data-sets to pull into an investigation: traffic analysis queries, NMS metrics, Syslog and Trap event entries, on-demand synthetic tests, configuration backups diffs and even run show commands
• Title and Description metadata, leveraged by AI Advisor to know when to dynamically summon them

Concretely, if you're a Claude Code user, you can think of these as Claude Skills.

These capabilities now can get leveraged offline with AI Advisor Subscription Reports with prompts such as:

Execute the "NTP and Syslog audit" Runbook

In that example, AI Advisor would fetch the Runbook and execute the instructions in it, turning it into a powerful audit tool that will be summoned regularly, sending your Engineering/Operations team a report with actions for them to review and apply.

"Portal won't even load for me," said the SRE manager, Jim-bob, frantically looking at a series of alerts cascading through his observability tool. In the Slack war room, the pressure was mounting. 

"Is this a synth issue or a network issue?" he asked—the classic question that marks the beginning of every high-stakes triage.

Across the virtual table, Ally, the network architect, was digging into the charts. "Why so many that say Tokyo?" she muttered, staring at a sea of overlapping lines. The team was drowning in raw data, but they were missing the story.

What's New?

To solve these high-pressure moments, we’re thrilled to announce the enhanced Investigative Capabilities of AI Advisor (AIA). AI Advisor now has the power to act as your primary on-call investigator, correlating Synthetics monitoring with real-time BGP telemetry. Instead of you manually hunting for common denominators across different ephemeral queries or consoles, AIA looks at your global agent network, analyzes the routing paths, and builds a definitive root-cause report and complete with path visualizations, directly in the chat.

Why It Matters

This update turns AIA into a collaborative partner that solves the "unknown network change" by following the evidence:

• AI Assisted Triangulation: During the triage, Ally and Jim-bob were overwhelmed by "Tokyo" alerts. AIA cut through the noise by identifying that geographically diverse agents (Cloud-A/Chicago, Cloud-B/Tokyo, Cloud-C/London) all shared one thing in common: their traffic routed through a specific upstream transit path. AIA can now build these path-dependency diagrams on the fly, helping describe transit-layer issues in a context that is easier for NOC and network engineers to understand and act upon.
• Exposing the "Connected Route" Trap: One of the most dangerous false signals is a healthy P2P link. AI Advisor identified that while an upstream p2p interface remained reachable with 0% packet loss, it was a "false friend." Because that subnet was a connected route, the link stayed up even as the provider’s backbone lost the ability to route traffic to Kentik's actual service prefixes (193.177.*.*/24). AIA accurately identified that the physical wire was fine, but the routing was broken.

• Correlating BGP Churn in Real-Time: AI Advisor doesn't just look at pings; it looks across the data you’ve collected with Kentik. In our case, it identified a massive BGP UPDATE storm of 158k messages, roughly 148x the normal churn rate, detected on a specific transit path. By linking this routing instability directly to the Synthetics packet loss, AI Advisor (AIA) gives you the data-driven evidence you need to coordinate with partners and resolve path-specific issues.

*note this image is an anonymized recreation based on the original

• Depth Without the Drama: No more fighting with your dashboard while on the move. The updated UDE Table Renderers ensure that whether you're at a dual-monitor workstation or triaging on the go like Jim-Bob, the critical path data and cloud provider info are front and center.

Get Started! Ready to find your Mean Time to Innocence? Head to the Synthetics section in the Kentik portal to explore the new trace tool, or ask AI Advisor to "analyze the latest packet loss spike" to see the triangulation diagram in action. For a deep dive into the technical specs, visit our Knowledge Base.

On May 8, 2026, during a scheduled maintenance window at 2AM UTC, Kentik will introduce an F5 Distributed Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) in front of our US SaaS platform (portal.kentik.com / api.kentik.com).  This is part of our commitment to continual improvement and defense in depth strategy to secure our systems in the face of novel, AI-assisted attack chains. (Note - As part of our initial deployment, this change took effect in EU SaaS on April 22, 2026)

What's changing

All HTTPS traffic to portal.kentik.com,  api.kentik.com (including *.my.kentik.com, beta.kentik.com & next.kentik.com), and the corresponding .eu domains, now routes through the F5 WAF at 159.60.158.89 before reaching Kentik infrastructure. This provides enhanced protection against malicious web application traffic and attacks with no change to the portal or API functionality.

What's not changing

• Our SaaS platform remains hosted with its data stored in our co-location facility in Ashburn, Virginia for our US and Frankfurt, Germany for EU.
• Flow ingest data (NetFlow/IPFIX/sFlow packets) sent to collector IPs is unaffected.
  (Note: However, some kproxy management/health calls, ksynth result uploads and, any customer scripts calling our API  — now routes through the WAF)

Action required

Action only required if you have outbound IP allowlists. If your proxies, firewalls or other routing policies restrict outbound HTTPS (port 443) to Kentik by IP, you must add 159.60.158.89 alongside the existing Kentik VIPs. Without this, portal and API access may be blocked from your network.

Data Processing Notes

F5 Data Processing

• Requests will be processed by F5’s regional endpoints based on where they originate.
• F5 is a member of the US DPF program & shares our overall GDPR commitment, so this change should not introduce novel data locality concerns. 
• WAF performs transient analysis of user requests hitting the SaaS website only and is not used to process network telemetry data (such as NetFlow) sent to our servers. Furthermore, F5 does not store any user request data post-processing. As a result, we determined that this does not meet our criteria for declaring F5 as a full subprocessor working with customer personal data.

Private Network Interconnect (PNI)

• If you have a private network interconnect (PNI) configured to Kentik with the portal/API being accessed via the PNI. Then with the WAF in place, portal and API access will be routed via F5’s regional edges over the internet. (Note: This is only for web traffic and, Flow/ingest data will still continue to go over the PNI)

Additional F5 information

• F5 Data Protection:  https://www.f5.com/company/trust-center/general-data-protection-regulation-and-data-protection-framework
• F5 Regional Edge Locations: https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000146743 
• F5 Regional Edge IP ranges: https://docs.cloud.f5.com/docs-v2/downloads/platform/reference/network-cloud-ref/ips-domains.txt 

If you have any questions regarding this, please reach out to Kentik support or your customer success advisor.

Network problems happen all the time, but the hardest part isn't detection. It's getting to the why. Detection is easy, but diagnosis is not. Observability has gotten incredibly good at detecting issues and narrowing down the problem space. But actually diagnosing the network and finding the root cause? That is still painfully manual.

Engineers often need to look at multiple tools, dashboards and CLIs to get to root cause. Introducing, Kentik's new AI diagnostics for faster root-cause analsys! By bringing diagnostic tools-of-the-trade directly into your telemetry and alerting workflows, you can stop the swivel-chair investigation and confirm root causes faster.

Here are three new capabilities launching today to help you streamline troubleshooting:

On-Demand Connectivity Tests

Need to confirm an issue from a specific vantage point? You can now use AI Advisor to validate reachability and path behavior from Universal Agents. This allows you to test and confirm network issues exactly where they matter most to your end-users.

📝 Config Context (Backups + Diffs)

Configuration changes are a leading cause of network incidents. Kentik NMS now periodically captures running configs over SSH, securely stores them as secret-redacted backups, and surfaces diffs between revisions. Even better: AI Advisor can instantly analyze these backups and diffs to answer questions about configuration states and identify if a recent change is the culprit behind your current issue.

💻 SSH Command Access

When an investigation requires live device data, the usual answer is to pull up a CLI and start digging. Now, you can do it right from AI Advisor. AI Advisor can propose, run, and analyze read-only show commands directly inside your investigation thread.

• No memorizing vendor syntax: AI Advisor handles the complex commands.
• No context switching: Keep your CLI output and your telemetry in the same window.
• Empower your team: Junior or less specialized staff can safely troubleshoot complex issues and correlate live device truth with ease.

Ready to see it in action?

Monitor your devices with NMS, configure SSH access and start solving problems faster today. There's no "upcharge" for this new feature. It's included with an NMS device license. Need more details? Check out our knowledge base article and release blog.

Observation Deck was initially built as a flexible landing page that adapts to users' interest. It includes a library of widgets that aren't available as Data/Metrics Explorer views, but also allows our users to embed views from these two key Infrastructure Analytics query applications. In its initial design, there was only one Observation Deck per user, and no ability for a group of users to share the same.

Discussions with our user base led to these requirements:

• the ability to build and then share Observation Decks across users;
• the ability to share an Observation Deck with users based on their assigned role, serving as a role-specific landing page for the tasks & checks that their roles demand
• the ability to centrally manage Observation Decks assignments as landing pages for different user groups

So... that's what this update is about! Read on! At the end of the article, we'll also share our vision of how Observation Decks and Dashboards will evolve in the short/mid/long term future, so make sure you review the last section.

Introducing the new observation decks

Observation Decks are now their own Library objects

If you go to the Library ([shift]+[s] from any screen in Kentik Portal, one of those magic shortcuts you want to know about) you will notice that the left-side filter panel now offers an additional choice for Type:

This means that you can now create multiple Observation Decks. Here's a few things about how it works:

• These Observation Decks are bound to the same RBAC rules as Dashboards: Shared vs Private settings supersede any RBAC permissions - a new RBAC section allows you to configure permissions for Observation Decks the same way that exists with Dashboards, including per-label permissions

• Important note: This doesn't replace or delete your existing Observation Deck; it has been simply been migrated to a Library object for you so you won't need to re-create it
  • The migrated Observation Decks are Private meaning you only will see them if you had one
  • You can change their share settings and they will then appear to other users in the Library (barring RBAC permissions) - ideally you should change their names before sharing them so you don't end up with multiple titled Observation Deck, each with a different owner

• If your Kentik Portal Landing page was an Observation Deck, the record has been updated in your settings, pointing to the same, migrated library object, which should result in no change to your experience upon login - see section in this article about Observation Deck assignments

A complete overhaul of Observation Deck editing capabilities

With this update, you'll find the previous ability to add widgets from a selection of existing ones with in the + Add Panel dropdown at the top:

We have now made editing Observation Deck simpler - let's go through a few useful changes that we've added:

Edit in place

All Observation Deck panel titles, as well as the main title are now editable in place: hovering on these titles highlights them, clicking loads an inline edit field.

New top level widget types

New widgets have been released that have long been asked by our users:

• Section widget
• Markdown text panel widget

The Section Widget lets you create sections to group panels in and make long Observation Decks easier for the users to consume - see below:

Conveniently, sections are also collapsible/expandable, as shown below:

Markdown Text panels are another addition making this Observation Deck update exciting, look for yourself in the screenshot below.

A couple tricks that we've found very useful when using markdown panels:

• use emojis to display clear do's and don'ts type of instructions
• use arrow characters in the titles to point at a nearby panel if you want to provide an inline explanation to them
• don't hesitate to abuse URL embedding, even if these don't point to wiki documentation: non-public URLs are OK as long as the consuming user has access to the resource the URL points to (private wikis are fine)
• a full library of markdown examples is available here, don't hesitate to steal ideas from it to make your Observation Decks more lively

Central management of Observation Decks as Landing Page experiences

To further Observation Deck's usefulness and make them more manageable at scale in the case of user groups with different demands in Kentik Portal, we've extended management capabilities throughout the Settings experience.

Per user assignment of Observation Deck as a Landing Page

If your user permissions allows it, you can now assign Landing Pages to users yourself (it used to be a user private setting).

In the Company Settings > Users > Edit User workflow, you'll now be able to set a specific Observation Deck as a landing page for any user:

Beyond that, you'll also be able to leverage Bulk Edit capabilities from the same Users management page to assign the same Observation Deck to multiple users at the same time in one fell swoop!

SSO Role-Sets and the associated Landing Page

Some of our users use SSO RBAC Automated Attribute Mapping via Role Sets (see the announcement here): this feature allows Kentik Administrator to set RBAC permissions and enforce them at login based on users' SAML2 attributes, including User Groups.

In that context, a Role-Set is a collection of roles assigned by SSO at login, and it now contains a setting to assign a specific landing page: each who has been assigned a Role-Set containing a Landing Page setting will now default to the selected Landing Page, where a named Observation Deck can be configured, as shown below.

User API extensions for Observation Decks as a Landing Page

Some users prefer relying on programmatic capabilities to set up users using our API - for those we've also extended the User API endpoints to include setting an Observation Deck as a landing page programmatically

What is the future of Dashboards and Observation Decks ?

As a lot of you have already pointed out, Observation Decks and Dashboards are very similar. For example, a lot of our users have asked for an ability to add Observation Deck widgets to Dashboards.

Additionally, we have determined that Dashboards have a high barrier to entry for our newer users, and are too involved to Create or Edit.

For both these reasons, we will merge Observation Decks and Dashboards together in the near future. Here's a (non-exhaustive) list of what you can expect:

• All existing Observation Decks will be migrated to dashboards
• The new Dashboards experience will inherit the newer, simplified Edit/Create User Experience of Observation Deck (ex: Edit Mode is permanent, no need to toggle View/Edit mode to make layout changes etc...)
• Existing Observation Deck widgets will by default be available in the new Dashboards experience
• The new Dashboards experience will include all the data-sets that you can add to Kentik: Traffic(Flow), NMS(Metrics), Synthetics, Events...
• The new Dashboards experience will see its Guided Mode powers significantly overhauled and improved to make interactive dashboards a point of focus for creators

Last but not least, we have a long term project to sprinkle AI magic over these new dashboards getting dashboard creation a step closer to true Generative AI!

Tell us what you'd like to see in these future dashboards, it's never to late to get involved in the future of Kentik Portal and we love sourcing our future improvements from our users themselves!

Managing cloud security shouldn't be a guessing game, especially when you need to know exactly why traffic is being blocked or allowed across your AWS environment. We understand how frustrating and time-consuming it can be to troubleshoot these visibility gaps. And that's why we are thrilled to announce that Kentik Cloud now supports the ingestion of AWS Network Firewall (ANF) logs. 

By integrating this service-based firewall data, Kentik provides you with deep observability into traffic moving into, out of, and across your AWS environment, including critical metadata not found in standard VPC flow logs. This integration empowers your team for proactive network security management by bringing enriched ANF flow logs, alert logs, and firewall metrics all into a single view with the most relevant network context from your AWS environment.

• Pinpoint Blocked Traffic: Quickly identify exactly what traffic is being blocked and why, allowing you to make informed decisions to either whitelist legitimate traffic or address unauthorized attempts immediately.
• Add Context to your Security Policies: Gain comprehensive visibility into specific firewalls, policies, and rules. You can now easily see and audit which traffic is traversing specific firewall rulesets to ensure your security posture aligns with your intended policy.
• Streamline Connectivity Analysis: Visualize the network paths across your AWS environment, ensuring that you have clarity on firewalls, security groups, and network ACLs that are all contributing to a potential connectivity blockage.

What's new?

Network firewalls are a critical part of your cloud network architecture, so it was important that we first provide the relevant context about those ANF connections in the Kentik Map. This also provides important metadata about the Firewall Attachments, Firewall Rule Groups, and all of the connections from VPCs, subnets, Transit Gateways, and more. 

For troubleshooting, it was also important that this firewall metadata was also used for path analysis across your AWS network. We added AWS Network Firewall details to Kentik Cloud Pathfinder, including direct links into the AWS Console for firewall rule configuration.

Finally, we wanted to surface the enriched ANF flow and alert log data to ensure that traffic analysis had a first-class experience in Kentik Data Explorer. Now you can use ANF-provided log dimensions along with Kentik's enrichment engine to make it easy to look at specific dropped flows and which VPC, region, and application they come from. 

How do I get started?

Ready to get more out of your AWS Network Firewall visibility? Log in to the Kentik Portal today to enable AWS Network Firewall log ingestion as part of your Kentik Cloud Export. For step-by-step configuration details, check out our Knowledge Base article on integrating AWS Network Firewall logs.

KProxy has long been a trusted ally in maintaining network visibility across complex and restricted environments. As we look toward the future of network intelligence, we are excited to help you scale even further by integrating these proven capabilities into a more unified and automated platform experience.

See What’s New

With last week’s release of Flow Proxy as a native capability within the Kentik Universal Agent, we are now officially setting a sunset date for the standalone KProxy binary: May 1, 2027.

We’re sharing this roadmap a full year in advance to ensure your team has a clear and supported path to the next generation of flow collection. This transition moves the robust traffic forwarding you've relied on into a "set-it-and-forget-it" capability model. By consolidating into the Universal Agent, you’re moving toward a more streamlined, single-agent architecture that simplifies your entire telemetry stack.

Why It Matters

Transitioning to Flow Proxy allows you to leverage a modern, high-performance architecture while building on the reliable foundation KProxy established.

• Unified Agent Management: Instead of managing KProxy as a separate standalone service, you can now handle everything through the Universal Agent. This means one binary to maintain, one service to monitor, and a much cleaner operational footprint.
• UI-Driven Control & Visibility: We’ve moved configuration out of local text files and into the cloud. You can now deploy, tune, and scale your Flow Proxy settings directly from the Kentik Portal, giving you faster response times and better oversight.
• Enhanced Security Standards: The integrated Flow Proxy brings FIPS support to your traffic forwarding. This ensures your telemetry meets the highest security and compliance standards required for modern regulated environments without any additional configuration complexity.

Get Started!

The future of network intelligence is unified, and the path forward is simple. We recommend all users begin migrating their KProxy instances to the Universal Agent Flow Proxy capability to start taking advantage of these integrated features today.

Dive into the KProxy Migration Guide to map out your move, or jump into the Kentik Portal to enable Flow Proxy on your existing Universal Agents. Let’s get your network ready for 2027.

Onboarding network devices shouldn't require a complex flowchart to determine which agent polls for what data. We understand that juggling "NMS devices" versus "Flow devices"—and facing the performance penalty of "double polling" where multiple agents hit the same device—has been a source of friction and unnecessary complexity. 

What’s New?

We’re thrilled to announce a major evolution in how the Kentik Universal Agent (UA) collects device telemetry. Instead of a product-focused "NMS" capability, all SNMP and Streaming Telemetry (ST) collection will be handed by a Unified SNMP/ST capability.

Previously, the Universal Agent’s "NMS" capability focused on full monitoring (as well as ICMP-only devices), while a separate Kproxy agent (outside of the UA) handled SNMP polling for flow enrichment (as well as flow ingest). This often led to redundant polling and confusing configurations when polling devices for both flow enrichment and device monitoring.

The "NMS" capability has evolved into the SNMP/ST capability. This single, powerful capability now handles both Full Monitoring (NMS) and Flow Enrichment. For more details on these distinctions, check out the Detailed Migration Scenarios section of the KProxy Migration Guide. This update works hand-in-hand with our new UA Flow Proxy capability, allowing you to consolidate everything under the Universal Agent framework, eliminating the need for standalone Kproxy installations and streamlining your "Kentik devices" onboarding process.

Why It Matters

This unification isn't just a rename; it is a fundamental architectural improvement designed to reduce overhead and simplify your workflow.

• Eliminate "Double Polling": By consolidating monitoring and enrichment into a single capability, we stop the inefficient practice of having both Kproxy and the Universal Agent poll the same device. This significantly reduces CPU load on your network gear and improves overall performance.
• Simplified Onboarding & Management: We're eroding the need to decide between an "NMS device" or a "Flow device." You simply configure the SNMP/ST capability based on your collection needs. Whether you just need Flow Enrichment (requires Flow license) or Full Monitoring (requires NMS license), it is now handled by a single, logical agent configuration.
• Faster Time to Value: Deploying new devices is faster and less prone to configuration errors. You get immediate visibility without the "support tax" of maintaining disparate agent binaries.

Get Started!

Ready to streamline your device telemetry? For a detailed breakdown of the migration paths and new configuration options—including Flow Enrichment vs. Full Monitoring—check out the KProxy Migration Guide in the Kentik Knowledge Base.

Managing disparate agent binaries across your network shouldn't be a manual chore that slows down or complicates your visibility. We know that deploying agents in remote sites or restricted environments often feels like a balancing act between security requirements and operational simplicity.

What’s New?

We’re thrilled to announce that the power of KProxy is now natively integrated into the Kentik Universal Agent! This update brings the trusted secure traffic forwarding agent you rely on directly into our Universal Agent. Instead of managing standalone KProxy installations via command line, you can now deploy, manage, and scale your flow collection as a simple "capability" within the Universal Agent. This integration allows the agent to receive, process, and forward NetFlow, sFlow, and IPFIX telemetry to the Kentik platform with more control and less friction than ever before.

Why It Matters

This evolution of the Flow Proxy capability isn't just about consolidation; it's about making your life easier and your network more secure.

• Centralized UI Configuration: Say goodbye to manual configuration files. You can now deploy and tune your Flow Proxy settings like listening ports directly from the Kentik Portal.

• FIPS Support for Regulated Environments: For our customers in highly regulated industries, this update introduces FIPS support, ensuring your traffic forwarding meets the stringent security standards required for compliant implementations.
• Simplified Enrichment: Easily associate all flow data with specific Kentik Sites during setup, ensuring your data is organized and actionable the moment it hits the platform.

Get Started!

Ready to streamline your device telemetry? For a detailed breakdown of the migration paths and new Flow Proxy configuration options check out the KProxy Migration Guide in the Kentik Knowledge Base.

Data Explorer has always been the crown jewel of Kentik Portal: by any measure this Observability Analytics workbench is our users' most beloved application. As its grown over time, we've kept adding new functionality to it over the years.

As a byproduct, we've heard feedback from our newer users that this Data Explorer beast could be hard to tame as you're making your first steps in Kentik Portal.

As we were ramping up Kentik's AI capabilities, we discovered very early that AI Advisor does an excellent job as a Natural Language Processor that turns human prompts into fully fledged Data Explorer queries - AI Advisor Announcement here

So to facilitate faster queries in Data Explorer, we've added small, buy highly useful feature to AI Advisor when using AI Advisor on the Data Explorer page: Send to Data Explorer.

Learning to use Data Explorer with AI Advisor

When it comes to users new to Data Explorer, we believe there's nothing more efficient than learning its ropes by example.

Starting today, you'll notice that when AI Advisor writes an answer to the chat window on a Data Explorer page that contains a query it has used for analysis, it will now present a Send to Data Explorer button next to it.

When clicked, the Send to Data Explorer button will replace the current query in the main window with an updated one from this step of the prompt response.
The beauty of it is that users can keep iterating over the same query without ever having to set all the query parameters themselves in the Data Explorer query panel. The additional benefit is that after each iteration, a learning user can precisely look at what parameters AI Advisor changed in the query to respond to their prompt, therefore getting a personalized tutorial on setting up their own query!

Here's a sample follow-up to the previous prompt, which will present the results in a table, but also offer the Send to Data Explorer button

... and the result in the main Data Explorer window when clicking the button

But wait... enter Cause Analysis

While piloting Data Explorer via prompt is already a major improvement in itself, we also linked it to Cause Analysis. If you don't remember this incredible AI feature of Data Explorer, take a minute to read the Cause Analysis feature announcement here.

With Cause Analysis, you can ask Kentik AI to inspect a traffic chart and ask it to identify anomalies and analyze them for you: one of the ways to do so was to drag and highlight a visual anomaly and summon the feature as shown in the screenshot below

With this new feature on display today, you can simply ask AI Advisor "What happened on 04/3 around 15:00", and AI Advisor will spontaneously summon Cause Analysis and give you a Send to Data Explorer button for you to access the result of its reasoning as to what may have caused this peak: