Welcome to the September 2025 Port Changelog — your monthly roundup of what’s new and improved in Port!
This release brings powerful updates for context-aware experiences, AWS integrations, and agentic AI workflows, along with quality-of-life improvements across dashboards, search, and the data model.
You’ll find:
- Major new capabilities like Contextual Queries, Hosted-by-Port AWS integration, and advanced relationship path filtering for Related Entities.
- Impactful enhancements, including dashboard filters, announcement banners, and improved mapping validations.
- Smaller but mighty upgrades like faster search, new widgets, and GitLab admin token support.
- New AI Guides and automations provide step-by-step recipes for triggering, managing, and governing coding agents.
As always, links to docs, screenshots, and videos are included below so you can see what’s new and put it to work immediately.
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Filter related entities by relationship path
Gain precise control over how related entities are displayed by defining exact relationship paths in the Related Entities table. Allow creating custom tab displaying entities of a self-related blueprint. Toggle JSON Mode for full path customization, and set maxHops to define relationship depth.
Specific relation:
Self relation (e.g. to structure an org relation of a team → department → business unit, where all are actually team blueprint):
Hosted-by-Port AWS integration
Easily connect your AWS accounts to Port with a single click, streamlined installation. This integration is Hosted-by-Port and is currently in closed beta. It will gradually be matched in parity with the existing installation and will move into open beta.
Contextual queries
Contextual Query Rules let you dynamically use user and team properties inside queries, permissions, and action conditions — making your portal behavior adapt to
who
the user is and what context
they operate in. This means your dashboards, actions, and entity views can now change automatically based on role, team, or department.For example, developers see only the services owned by their team, while tech leads or on-call engineers automatically gain access to all production actions. Managers can live in the same dashboard while seeing data for their own department, action requests can require approval from a direct manager, and only on-call engineers can roll back production issues.
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Dashboard filters
You can now apply dashboard filters to multiple widgets at once, making it easier to focus on your dashboard insights. Add filters by owning team, title, or identifier from the page settings to explore data with precision. The next release will expand filtering to all properties, giving you even deeper insight control.
Announcement banner
Keep your team informed by displaying important messages at the top of the page. Enable the announcement banner in your settings to start sharing updates instantly.
Cards view for your data model
Easily explore and manage Blueprints using a new card-based view and dedicated management modal. Visit the Data Model page, switch to Cards View, and click Manage on any Blueprint card.
Improved test mapping validations
Catch mapping issues earlier with automatic schema validation and clearer resource names. Test mapping now highlights validation problems and displays warnings when you save or re-sync your integrations.
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Search blueprints and actions instantly
The global search now includes blueprints & actions in the search results.
Add action card widget to specific entity pages
The action card widget is now available on specific entity dashboards. Start customizing dashboards to trigger actions like incidents or workload management directly from each entity page.
Discover all GitLab projects with admin tokens
Use your admin token in the GitLab integration to access and manage projects beyond your personal ownership. Enable this in your integration settings to get started.
✨ AI Guides
Trigger and track coding agents from Port
Easily launch and monitor GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Gemini agents in Port with real-time status tracking and centralized access control. Start by integrating your preferred agent in Port AI.
🔗 Gemini
Automatically resolve tickets using AI
Automatically trigger GitHub Copilot when Jira tickets move to "In Progress" status, seamlessly connecting project management with AI-powered development.
Enforce usage of security coding AI agent rules
Track coding agent security rules in services with scorecards to drive usage of AI agents while maintaining control over security context and compliance standards.
Summarize support tickets with AI agents
Automatically generate quick summaries of support ticket comments and conversations from Zendesk, enabling faster response times and better insights into customer issues.
Manage AI instructions for coding agents
Stop managing prompts per agent. Define a single AGENTS.md in Port, sync it to your repo, and point all coding agents to it, controlling prompts and behavior in one place.
Automatically resolve security vulnerabilities with AI
Streamline security response by automatically resolving security vulnerabilities using Port and Claude Code (or your preferred coding agent) while keeping the PR assigned to the owning team.
Auto-heal unhealthy Kubernetes pods AI agent
Automatically detect, diagnose, and remediate unhealthy pods by combining pod logs with SDLC context, enabling AI to execute targeted fixes like restarts, scaling, or configuration updates.
Find internal documentation with AI
Transform your documentation into searchable entities that respond to natural language queries about ownership, updates, and categories, making knowledge discovery instant and intuitive.
Additional Guides
Easily interact with PagerDuty incidents
Create and trigger PagerDuty incidents directly from Port using synced webhooks or GitHub workflows. Keep your catalog in sync automatically as incidents are created or updated.
Send Slack Messages using Port Automations
Automatically send targeted Slack messages to users based on events in GitHub, Jira, PagerDuty, and more. Use Port’s Slack app to look up users by email and deliver real-time, context-aware notifications.
Map pull requests to services in a monorepo
Automatically map GitHub pull requests to the specific services they impact in your monorepo. Use Port automations to analyze changed files and link each PR to the affected sub-components for instant visibility.