Introducing organizational controls and SSO for Render Enterprise.

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April 29, 2025
New

Added Render API endpoints for webhooks, metrics streaming, and workspace members

The Render API now includes endpoints for the following capabilities:

Get started with the Render API in the documentation.

April 24, 2025
Improved

Expanded service metrics for databases and disks

In the Render Dashboard, the Metrics page for a Render Postgres database now includes graphs for the following:

  • Disk usage, activity, and operation volume (these metrics are also available for services with an attached persistent disk)
  • Memory usage
  • Transaction volume
  • Network activity
  • Lock-delayed queries

Additionally, click the Queries tab on your database's Metrics page to view tables displaying active processes and top queries for the database.

Learn more about service metrics in the documentation.

April 24, 2025
Improved

Log explorer now displays instance IDs and multiple timestamp formats

The log explorer in the Render Dashboard now displays each log line's originating service instance:

The format of a log line in the log explorer
The format of a log line in the log explorer

This is helpful for debugging services that are scaled to multiple instances, and for observing instance swaps during a zero-downtime deploy.

Click any line's instance identifier to display only logs from that instance.

Additionally, mouse over the timestamp for a log line to view that same timestamp in UTC and Unix formats:

Multiple timestamp formats in the log explorer
Multiple timestamp formats in the log explorer

The log explorer is available from your service's Logs page in the Render Dashboard. Learn more about the log explorer—including helpful keyboard shortcuts—in the documentation.

April 22, 2025
Improved

New Render Key Value instances use Valkey 8.1

As of 2025-04-22, all newly created Render Key Value instances use Valkey version 8.1. View highlights of this release.

Valkey instances created before this date currently use version 8.0.1. Render will upgrade these instances as part of their next scheduled maintenance.

Learn more about Render Key Value in the documentation.

March 26, 2025
Improved

Add multiple read replicas to a Render Postgres database

You can now add up to five read replicas to a Render Postgres database. Previously, each database supported only a single read replica.

This enables you to dramatically increase your volume of database reads without introducing load on your primary instance.

Note the following:

  • Each read replica has the same instance type and storage as your primary instance and is billed accordingly.
  • Render does not automatically load balance queries across multiple read replicas. Any such load balancing must occur in your application logic.

Learn more about read replicas in the docs.

March 11, 2025
New

Stream Render service metrics to your observability provider

Workspaces with a Professional plan or higher can create a metrics stream to push OpenTelemetry-formatted service metrics to an observability provider, such as Grafana or Honeycomb.

Render streams metrics related to CPU and memory usage, HTTP requests, and more.

Configuring a metrics stream in the Render Dashboard
Configuring a metrics stream in the Render Dashboard

Render provides simplified configuration for several popular providers, and you can connect other providers by first routing metrics through your own OTel collector.

In the Render Dashboard, set up a metrics stream from your workspace's Integrations > Observability page. Your provider will start receiving metrics for all services in your workspace besides static sites.

Learn more about setup and reported metric types in the documentation.

March 11, 2025
New

Create webhooks to receive service event notifications

Professional workspaces and higher can now configure webhooks for a variety of Render service events. Set up an HTTPS endpoint to receive notifications, then subscribe to any combination of supported event types in the Render Dashboard:

Select from nearly 50 webhook event types.
Select from nearly 50 webhook event types.

Receive notifications related to deploys, scaling, datastores, and more.

Use webhooks to trigger custom logic in third-party services, such as posting in a Discord channel or triggering a GitHub Actions workflow.

To get started with webhooks, check out the docs and three example implementations.

March 05, 2025
New

Enterprise SAML SSO is now generally available with SCIM support

SAML single sign-on (SSO) is now generally available for teams with a Render Enterprise plan and a SAML 2.0-compatible identity provider (IdP), such as Okta.

With general availability, Enterprise orgs can now:

  • Self-manage domain capture and integration with their IdP
  • Enable SCIM-based provisioning and deprovisioning of org members via their IdP

Learn more about Enterprise orgs and SSO in the docs. If you're interested in upgrading to an Enterprise plan, please contact us.

February 25, 2025
Improved

Native Go version updated to 1.24

Services on Render's Go native runtime now use Go version 1.24. Existing services that currently use Go 1.23 will upgrade to 1.24 with their next deploy.

Note that this change does not apply to Docker-based services that specify a Go version in their Dockerfile.

February 24, 2025
Improved

Significantly reduced median spinup time for cron jobs

Recent improvements to build caching have significantly reduced the median spinup time for Render cron jobs—especially cron jobs that run multiple times per hour.

Previously, each run of a cron job took approximately 20 seconds to spin up in the median case. Now, cron jobs that use the new build caching strategy often spin up in 5 seconds or less.

To take advantage of this speedup, make sure you've triggered at least one new build for your cron job since February 1, 2025. You can manually trigger a build from the cron job's Builds page in the Render Dashboard:

Triggering a manual cron job build in the Render Dashboard
Triggering a manual cron job build in the Render Dashboard