Feature ideas

Allow to trigger and approve actions from the MCP server to enhance the integration for both developers and agents

As a Platform Engineer launching a new dashboard in the Port catalogue I'd like to 1) track adoption and usage of the new dashboard/page and 2) have access to data so I can integrate my surveying tooling to survey the users who use the new dashboard. For big picture context. We are also a customer of DX who have a product called PlatformX. We have integrated this into our Self Service Actions. When a user (Bob) runs a self-service action via Port an event is fired off to DX saying that Bob did X event. DX looks to see if Bob is eligible for surveying based on the action (event) taken and if valid will send a survey to them personally on teams (MS Bot framework). This gives a very low friction option for Bob to provide feedback they might have otherwise not raised. We'd like to perform a similar integration but for important pages in the catalogue, like a newly launched dashboard. So, the user experience might be that Bob accesses the new port dashboard page for the first time and sometime later is pinged on teams saying "Hey we saw you used the ABC dashboard for the first time. Could you let us know what you thought etc..." Currently we don't have access to data that tells us who has accessed what pages in the catalogue at what time. Could this data/event telemetry be made available?

It would be great if Port Self Service Actions allowed to have an input field in table format for users. We need users to input multiple times 4 related inputs which would be better visualized as a table (this is how we manage it in another tool currently). Without a table view, the UX is not good. Use case: Developers need to input network information This information is in a table naturally (DNS | IP | Port | Something else) The information may need to be inputted multiple times in a form They need to make sure the data matches the other data (DNS with IP and such)

Context https://docs.getport.io/search-and-query/#relation-structure-and-operators describes how to search for Entities that have a relation to other Entities. This can be used with the search API ( https://api.getport.io/v1/entities/search ) and with the filters when adding a visualization to a dashboard for example. This type of search only has one operator: relatedTo . Objective Add an opposite operator, i.e. relatesNotTo . Rationale Sometimes the business context dictates that certain relationships SHOULD be present in the data. By adding this operator it becomes possible to find inconsistencies in the data by searching for Entities that do NOT have a relationship (where one is expected).

Currently, when the Iframe widget is configured with protected URL Type, it performs the OAuth flow within the embedded Iframe by default. However, many authentication services configure Content-Security-Policy or X-Frame-Options header to prevent loading the login page within an iframe as a security measure to prevent credentials leakage. This renders the iframe widget with protected url type unusable for many use cases. The only exception to this is if the Authorization URL contains login.microsoftonline.com . In this case, Port opens the login window in a popup to perform the login securely and to work around the "X-Frame-Options: Deny" header set by Microsoft. In our particular scenario, we have internal Keycloak used as our IAM solution. The default login method in Keycloak is to login via Entra ID ( login.microsoftonline.com ). However, as the Keycloak itself has its own domain, the popup is not opened as the flow is started by navigating to Keycloak (rather than Entra ID directly), and the browser rejects to load the Entra ID login page due to headers set by Microsoft. This is a request to make the popup/embedded behavior configurable. Ideally, there would be a toggle to choose whether the authentication window should be opened in embedded or popup mode.

For some use cases the 30 character limit is restrictive and limits the capacity for some advanced workflows for auto-generating blueprints from a service prepended with some prefixes. An increase in the character limit would enable advanced use cases/workflows without having to resort to brittle workarounds.

The automation feature in Port allows users for event driven actions. At the moment, this feature allows users to take only one action at a time such as updating an entity, calling an external API, invoking an action. It would be possible if users can define a series of steps in the invocationMethod such that once an automation is triggered, it will follow the steps and complete the entire workflow. At the moment, if my use case involves making two API calls to an external tool, updating the catalog, automations aren't able to help so I would resolve to using a GitHub action for this complex use-case

Currently when you open your user profile via the top right of Port, you're directed to a page showing the internal port user rather than the user entity page. It would be nice if this view would show as an entity showing our custom dashboard we have for our user blueprint.

Currently you can configure inputs so that a step has no visible inputs based on previous steps. Port should automatically hide or skip steps that have no visible inputs.

Currently number fields don't have any formatting options. It would be nice to be able to declare how each numeric field should be displayed, e.g. the number in the picture would be nicer written as 13,850,834. Currency signs and decimal places would also be useful. https://cloud.google.com/looker/docs/custom-formatting Looker has good support for this as an example.