Radar v1.8: Applications, Rebuilt Navigation, and Helm Upgrade Tracking
Radar v1.8 is out: an Applications view that groups workloads into the apps they form, a ground-up navigation and search rebuild, fuller Helm operations, large-cluster performance work, and Prometheus querying over MCP.
Radar v1.8 is out. It's a big one: new features, deep enhancements, and a new navigation and search experience.
Applications
Radar now smartly groups related resources into logical Applications, based on signals like Helm, Argo, Flux, common labels and resource names. Nobody thinks about their app as a pile of replicasets - the Applications view collects everything that makes up an app in one place. On Radar Cloud, the view extends across your fleet, so you can compare an application across the clusters you connect.
Navigation and search, redesigned
A ground-up rebuild: a modern sidebar with room for everything Radar now does, and a global search that finds anything, from anywhere, in a couple of keystrokes.
Helm
A more complete Helm operations experience: custom registry tracking, side-by-side version comparisons, and upgrade tracking that includes failed and rolled-back releases.
Large clusters
Performance improved across the board, comfortably handling tens of thousands of resources per cluster, with fallbacks and controls to limit what Radar watches in extreme cases.
Issues
Now a top-level view. Radar groups or links related items when it has high confidence, so you get less noise and faster root cause analysis. Issues are linked from related resources and from the relevant MCP tools, so neither you nor your agents miss anything important.
AI
Radar MCP now speaks Prometheus: your agent can query any Prometheus-compatible metrics source in the cluster (VictoriaMetrics, Mimir, etc.). On Radar Cloud, you can connect your AI agent over OAuth instead of managing tokens.
Get it
Radar stays a single Go binary, fully open source (Apache-2.0): local-first, no account, nothing to assemble, no plugins to manage, with 24 integrations for the ecosystem's most popular tools built in. Run it on your laptop as a binary or native desktop app, or in-cluster for team-wide access.
Install and run in 15 seconds (brew/krew/helm/scoop/apt/rpm in the repo):
curl -fsSL https://get.radarhq.io | sh && radarFull changelog: radarhq.io/changelog
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