Dashboards Migration, Bedrock O11y, and gcQL Formulas

Describe what you want, get what you need–more agent assistance and improvements to dashboards

August 13, 2026

Most of the work in this release landed in two places: dashboards and the agent. Dashboards got easier to template and easier to keep tidy. We shipped variables that map across data sources, saved views you can re-apply in one click, and facets plus bulk actions so a long list stops being a scrolling exercise. The agent picked up things it couldn't do before, too: build a monitor from a plain-English description, scope a question to an exact key:value with @mentions, and take images as input, whether that's a screenshot of a problem or a rough sketch of the dashboard you want it to build. And your groundcover links now unfurl into real cards in Slack, so a trace or log shows up where the incident's already being talked about.

Faster, higher-quality dashboards from the agent, and an issues page built for investigation

July 30, 2026

Two things anchor this release. groundcover Agent Mode builds for you across the platform and it does so even better. You can create a dashboard faster with the groundcover Agent, and the result is better than the old create flow gave you. The issues page got a real redesign around how customers actually investigate an alert, with that same view now showing up in Slack when a monitor fires. We also released cost monitoring on AWS, easier dashboard management from the outside, and the usual round of improvements and fixes below.

Catalogs, Cost, and a More Capable Agent

July 16, 2026

This release is about self-serve retention, cost management, new agent skills, and easier dashboarding. Customers get a smarter way to build dashboards with a catalog of pre-built dashboards you can preview on your own data. Agent Mode now builds dashboard widgets for you. Plus the Slack app enables you to do more with the groundcover Agent without leaving the channel while sharing more of it’s processing. AWS Cost lands as a first-class data source, which opens up a whole new track for groundcover around cloud cost management. Finally, users have a smarter way to manage data retention–a natural byproduct of groundcover’s BYOC and per-node pricing model. There's also a long list of improvements and fixes underneath.

Faster issue response, richer context: Slack, Linear, Monitor health, and dashboard upgrades

July 2, 2026

These past 2 weeks focused on helping teams surface issues, act faster, and keep context attached from alert to resolution. Slack Connector now routes monitor notifications to the right channels and lets the groundcover agent investigate with the full thread as context, while Linear Connector turns Monitor Issues into tickets and brings Linear knowledge back into root cause analysis. We also made monitors easier to trust, with monitor health in the drawer, No Data state-change reasons and routing, and modern Monitor/Issues views with filters, facets, tables, and saved team views. Plus, Storage Management adds retention control, Treemap brings a new visualization to Explore and Dashboards, and dashboard updates add thresholds, conditional colors, Y-axis labels, decimal controls, and clearer metric formatting.

Sharper investigations, fewer dead ends: New RUM exception handling and Slack Connector in Beta

June 18, 2026

The last 2 weeks we went after the parts of an investigation where you lose time: drawers too cramped to actually read, querying that fights you, monitors that fail quietly, no clear view of where your data comes from. RUM gets a dedicated Exceptions page that starts to replace Sentry, plus a session drawer that finally resizes so you can read it. APM and a native Ingestion source are now real query targets in Explore, and monitors are first-class typed Terraform instead of a YAML blob. There's also a new Slack integration that routes monitor notifications to the right channels and lets you pull the groundcover agent into any thread or access the groundcover agent through slack, in Beta now and fully available Monday, June 22. On top of that, a long list of improvements and fixes across Dashboards, Synthetics, Logs, and Traces.

Extend your o11y agent across your entire stack with Remote MCP Connectors

June 4, 2026

This week focused on making day-to-day investigation smoother. The most impactful addition is Remote MCP Connectors, which let your groundcover Agent reach beyond observability and act across the tools where your engineering work actually happens. We also introduced AI Observability, giving you a single place to see how your AI workloads are behaving, what they're costing, and where they're slow. Beyond that, monitors got more capable, Slack setup got much easier to manage, and we cleaned up a lot of rough edges across RUM, dashboards, and logs.