Cortex Beta Program & Release Phases
At Cortex, we're constantly building new features to improve your developer portal experience. Our beta program allows you to get early access to upcoming features, help shape their development, and provide valuable feedback before they reach general availability.
Release phases
Cortex uses a phased approach to release new features, allowing us to gather feedback and iterate based on real-world usage. Understanding these phases helps you know what to expect when trying out new features.
Private Beta
Select group of external customers by invitation only
Test real-world use cases and gather targeted feedback from pilot customers who can handle pre-release features
Direct support from the Cortex product team
Public Beta
All customers have it on by default, but certain features may only be available to cloud customers
Offer new features more broadly while still refining details and fixing bugs based on real-world usage at scale
Standard Cortex support channels
Research Preview
All cloud customers have it on by default
Quickly ship and iterate on AI features
Standard Cortex support channels
General Availability (GA)
All customers by default
Full-fledged, stable release ready for production use
Standard Cortex support channels
Current beta features
We're currently running beta programs for several exciting features:
Entity Relationships
Public Beta
Reach out to your account team to request access
Ownership Recommendations
Research Preview
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AI Impact Dashboard for GitHub Copilot (Public Beta)
Measure adoption and impact of AI coding tools, starting with GitHub Copilot, across your engineering teams. Learn more here.
Key features:
Team-level AI adoption correlated with delivery and reliability
Impact of recent AI usage on engineering performance
Detailed user-level AI adoption trends over time
This feature is only available for cloud-hosted customers.
Custom dashboards (Public Beta)
Easily create shared views of your key engineering metrics. Whether you’re tracking team delivery, reliability, or AI adoption, you can now design dashboards that bring your most important insights together. Learn more here.
Key features:
Ability to build tailored dashboards tied to your priorities
Automatic sharing across Eng Intel users for alignment
Entity relationships (Private Beta)
Relationship types allow you to define, manage, and visualize relationships between entities within your Cortex workspace, ensuring your organization's structures and dependencies are accurately represented. Learn more here.
Key features:
Customize relationship type (hierarchical or cyclical) between any entity type via the UI and API
VIew relationships on an entity page and within a catalog to better visualize your relationships
Query CQL along entity relationships
Reach out to your account management team for access to entity relationships.
Ownership predications (Research Preview)
The ownership predication model leverages machine learning to infer and recommend the most likely owners of a service using signals from Git activity. This helps teams maintain accurate and up-to-date ownership attribution across their software catalog. Learn more here.
Key features:
View all ownership recomendations in a single page
Accept or reject recomendations
This feature is only available for cloud-hosted customers.
Join our beta program
Why join?
Early Access: Be among the first to try new features before they're available to everyone
Shape the Product: Your feedback directly influences feature development and prioritization
Exclusive Perks: Beta participants may receive special recognition, early access to future features, or other benefits
Direct Collaboration: Work closely with our product team to ensure private beta features meet your needs
How to join
Review current beta features listed above to see what interests you
Try out any public beta features already enabled and provide any feedback through the link on the feature's public beta banner.
Click "Request Access" on any private beta feature you'd like to try
Fill out the brief form to tell us about your use case
We'll review your request and follow up within 3-5 business days
Not all requests can be accommodated for Private Beta features due to capacity constraints, but we'll do our best to include as many participants as possible.
What we ask of beta testers
Provide Feedback: Share your experiences, both positive and negative, through our feedback channels
Report Bugs: Help us identify issues by reporting them promptly with detailed information
Be Patient: Beta features may have rough edges or change during the testing period
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