Recently at Port, we focused on making your internal developer portal more powerful and even easier to use.
From talking to Port with natural language to building filters without touching JSON, the updates below are all about improving usability, flexibility, and speed. We’ve also made improvements to dashboards, AI agents, and the Slack experience, plus added a bunch of new guides and videos to help you get the most out of your portal.
Let’s dive in 👇
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💬 Talk to Port using natural language (via MCP)
You can now interact with Port using plain language in tools like Claude or Cursor.
Ask things like:
- “Who’s on call?”
- “How does Team A compare to Team B in incident resolution?”
- “Create a security scorecard for this service.”
You’ll get answers or trigger actions directly from your IDE.
A screenshot of a user interface showing a natural language query input and its interpreted Port query (MCP). The user asks, “What are my tasks for today?” and the system responds with relevant data.
🎛️ Build filters visually - no JSON needed
Creating filters in Port just got a lot easier. You can now build and update filters using a new visual UI, right in the portal. No more editing raw JSON (unless you want to, advanced mode is still there!).
Give it a spin in any entity catalog view.
A screenshot of the new Port visual UI for building and updating filters. The image is in dark mode and show the various options for filter creation.
📈 Line charts - counting entities
You can now chart both total and average entity counts over time, across any blueprint.. Whether you're monitoring growth or comparing trends, this gives you the clarity you need to make smarter decisions.
A screenshot of a line chart in Port UI that shows weekly deployments count over the past month.
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🧩 Link widget
Quickly access the tools and pages you rely on with our new
Link Widget
. Whether it’s an audit log or a favorite third-party tool, the new Link Widget makes it easier to organize what you rely on.
A screenshot of the Port UI showing the new Link Widget. The image shows "Catalog Quick Access" with options to navigate quickly to your favorite pages.
⚡ AI Agent responses now stream in real time
Our AI widget just got faster. Agent responses now stream live, so you can watch the answer come together and understand what’s happening behind the scenes.
This update is automatically available for closed beta users.
An image of a Port AI Agent. The user asks: "What is the next task we should work on?" and the AI Agent reasons then responds.
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Guide user actions with titles and descriptions
Port actions now support customizable titles and descriptions, allowing you to add helpful explanations that guide users smoothly through your forms.
An image of the Port UI showing a "Trigger Incident" action. The actions popup shows options to edit the Incident Title and Incident Description.
🔐 "Give view access” toggle moved
We’ve moved the "Give view access to everyone in the organization" toggle to the view settings panel—right where you'd expect to find it.
💬 Better AI experience in Slack
We’ve introduced a new Agents & AI Apps feature in our Slack app, with an updated layout and streamlined Chat and History tabs. Discover and use Port AI seamlessly within Slack!
A screenshot of the Slack application showing the Port Slack app. The text says "How to use port?" with conversation starters like "How many open PRs do we have?"
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Customize submit button labels in self-service actions
Self-service actions now allow you to change the button text on the last step of the action, so you can let users know whats about to happen when they finish the form.
🧭 New guides
- Create a PagerDuty incident from a New Relic alert
- Set up the Task Manager AI agent
- Set up the Incident Manager AI agent
- Trigger a Spacelift stack
- Set up Jira project health scorecards
- Set up the Pull Request Enricher AI agent
- Set up the Task Assistant AI agent
- Automatically create Jira Issue from Datadog alert
- Automatically create Jira Issue from Snyk Vulnerability
- Ingest stacks via webhook
- Notify users upon approval of self-service actions
- Visualize your GitHub repository and developer activity
- Enrich entities using AI
- Visualize your AWS storage and security configuration
- Visualize your GitHub dependency security alerts
- Visualize your GitHub repository and developer activity
- Visualize your Wiz security issues
- Automate admin role assignment
- Interact with ServiceNow records
- Delete a ServiceNow incident
- Auto-label your GitHub PRs with Sonar Scans
- Set up deployments using GitLab merge requests or jobs
- Visualize your GitHub identity and access management
- Auto approve and merge Dependabot PRs
- Deploy a service using AWS CodeDeploy
- Create an Azure DevOps Work Item
🎥 New videos
- Engineering360 - Set up surveys in your portal - Watch on YouTube
- Engineering360 - Track DORA metrics in your portal - Watch on YouTube