Introducing organizational controls and SSO for Render Enterprise.

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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

February 19, 2025
Adjusted

Render Postgres logical exports now use a directory-based format

Render Postgres databases now generate logical exports in a directory-based format (.dir.tar.gz) instead of a plain SQL archive (.sql.gz).

You can restore a directory-based export into a local or Render-hosted database using the pg_restore utility, which is included in most standard installations of PostgreSQL itself.

For full restoration instructions, see the documentation.

February 12, 2025
Adjusted

New Render Key Value instances run Valkey 8

Render has adopted Valkey in place of Redis® for all newly created Render Key Value instances. Valkey is an open-source key-value store that began as a fork of Redis version 7.2.4. For most applications and frameworks that interact with Redis, Valkey is a drop-in replacement.

Existing Redis instances on Render will continue operating as usual. However, they will no longer receive version updates.

Learn more about this change in the docs.

February 04, 2025
New

Render achieves certification under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework

As of January 6, 2025, Render is officially certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), along with its UK extension and the Swiss-US DPF.

This certification demonstrates Render's ongoing commitment to compliance with the latest privacy and security regulations. View the details of this certification under Render's entry at dataprivacyframework.gov/list.

See also Render's privacy policy and data processing addendum.

January 15, 2025
Early Access

SAML SSO now in early access for Enterprise plans

Now in early access, teams with an Enterprise plan can manage access to their Render organization via SAML single sign-on (SSO).

SAML SSO requires an identity provider (IdP) that supports the SAML 2.0 standard, such as Okta.

During the early access period, we'll work with you directly to enable SSO for your organization:

  • If you already have an Enterprise plan, please reach out to your Render contact to request SSO.
  • If you don't yet have an Enterprise plan, please contact us.

Learn more in the documentation.

December 18, 2024
New

View platform compliance documentation in the Render Dashboard

Documents related to Render platform security and compliance are now available from the Document Center in the Render Dashboard:

The Document Center in the Render Dashboard
The Document Center in the Render Dashboard

Open the Document Center by visiting dashboard.render.com/documents or by clicking Compliance and documents in the bottom-left corner of the dashboard.

All workspaces can view the following documents:

  • SOC 3 report
  • GDPR DPA

Organization and Enterprise workspaces can view additional documents after signing an NDA:

  • SOC 2 Type 2 report
  • ISO 27001 certificate
  • Render security policy