Weekly updates on new features, improvements, and fixes across groundcover.
Notification Routes, Integrations & Custom Mapping in Migrations
February 12, 2026
Discover new notification routes, Kubernetes and Datadog integrations, improved gcQL JSON handling, and enhanced logs and traces.
New Features
- Monitors | Released Notification Routes + Connected Apps.
- Monitors | Added Monitor Wizard autocomplete, improved label-based suggestions, and added LLM package recommendations to the catalog.
- Integrations | Added a Datadog Agent integration to the Data Sources page.
- Integrations | Added wizard support for sending OpenTelemetry directly from K8s pods to the sensor, plus Argo CD as an additional K8s integration option.
- Migrations | Added a Mapping Configurations page to manage data migration settings.
Improvements
- SDK | Added synthetic monitoring capabilities.
- RUM | Added release version information to the RUM SDK.
- K8s | Added native support for custom labels in groundcover metrics (from pod metadata).
- gcQL | Added JSON unpacking and a
collapsepipe for simpler session aggregation/filtering. - Explore | Added a "dirty" state indicator to the Run Query button in Explore Code mode.
Bug Fixes
- gcQL | Fixed free-text filters being sent to unsupported Traces endpoints, and fixed
stats asaliasing changing results rendering in Explore (Logs). - Explore | Fixed charts showing the same series color for different queries.
- Logs | Fixed custom facet filters getting cleared on refresh.
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