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title: "January 21, 2026"
description: "Middleware release 2.6.6 (January 21, 2026): Endpoint monitoring, Notebook for Logs, Alerts, Pipeline revamp, New map view in traces."
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breadcrumb: "Release Notes > January 21, 2026"
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# January 21, 2026

Release 2.6.6 shipped on January 21, 2026.

## Features

### Endpoint monitoring

- Revamped API catalogue feature with Endpoint monitoring
- Option to connect API set directly from GitHub or by uploading file

![Endpoint monitoring: Option to connect API set directly from GitHub or by uploading file](/images/release/2026/2026-01-21-1.webp)

- In API detail, view detailed information such as bifurcation of parameters by path query, body. Response of endpoint with summary like request vs errors, latency etc metrics.

![Endpoint monitoring: In API detail, view detailed information such as bifurcation of parameters by path query, body.…](/images/release/2026/2026-01-21-2.webp)

- View dependency map for connection of the endpoint and other details like span & trace summary and errors for that specific endpoint

![Endpoint monitoring: View dependency map for connection of the endpoint and other details like span & trace summary and…](/images/release/2026/2026-01-21-3.webp)

### Notebook for Logs

- Users can create a notebook to combine logs with metrics, traces and add notes for contextual analysis. It helps in visualizing complex data like incident or performance problems in a single sharable document with proper context.

![Notebook for Logs: Users can create a notebook to combine logs with metrics, traces and add notes for contextual…](/images/release/2026/2026-01-21-4.webp)

### Alerts

- Alert **templates** for Kubernetes, infra, APM and logs category so users can directly select template and alert will be automatically configured as per template.

![Alerts: Alert templates for Kubernetes, infra, APM and logs category so users can directly select template and alert…](/images/release/2026/2026-01-21-5.webp)

![Alerts: Alert templates for Kubernetes, infra, APM and logs category so users can directly select template and alert…](/images/release/2026/2026-01-21-6.webp)

- Updated default alerts with realistic threshold to reduce noisy and false alerts.
- Updated alert drill down to show relevant data as per triggered alert and its configuration.

### Pipeline revamp

- We merged ingestion control, agent pipeline and previous version of pipeline into one Pipeline.
- User can select hosts/clusters as data source and do ingestion control by setting up pipeline

![Pipeline revamp: User can select hosts/clusters as data source and do ingestion control by setting up pipeline](/images/release/2026/2026-01-21-7.webp)

### New map view in traces

- Updated the map view with a new design for better visibility inside traces.

![New map view in traces: Updated the map view with a new design for better visibility inside traces.](/images/release/2026/2026-01-21-8.webp)

### Dashboards

- Added **15 new dashboards of Kubernetes** inside default dashboards

  - Kubernetes ingresses, Kubernetes services, Kubernetes persistent volumes, persistent volume claims, Kubernetes horizontal pod autoscalers, statefulsets, daemonsets, cronjobs, jobs, replicasets, deployments, containers, namespaces, cluster etc)

![Dashboards: Added 15 new dashboards of Kubernetes inside default dashboards](/images/release/2026/2026-01-21-9.webp)

- Updated all of the above dashboards with new data for better information and visualization.

### Linux Auto instrumentation UX

- Updated screen design for linux auto to discover services running inside linux.

![Linux Auto instrumentation UX: Updated screen design for linux auto to discover services running inside linux.](/images/release/2026/2026-01-21-10.webp)

### Simplified Vercel integration

- Vercel integration is now one-click installable with no code changes required. The Middleware app automatically sets up log and trace drains, sending data to correlate logs and traces. Read full doc **.** See [here](/integrations/vercel-integration).
- Extended support to the Redirect log source, in addition to existing sources such as Static, Lambda, Edge, Build, External, and Firewall.

![Simplified Vercel integration: Extended support to the Redirect log source, in addition to existing sources such as…](/images/release/2026/2026-01-21-11.webp)

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