Introducing the Activity Center: One place for every change that matters

Today, we're introducing the Activity Center: a unified, configurable notification experience built directly into the Chainguard Console. The Activity Center provides every team in your organization with a single, reliable source of truth for updates that affect their work, including breaking changes, security advisories, image lifecycle events, and entitlement updates.

No more missed communications. No more deployment failures from changes you didn't see coming.

The problem with "good enough" communications

Security and platform teams move fast. But staying ahead of breaking changes, CVE fixes, image end-of-life dates, and product updates requires too much manual effort: monitoring multiple channels, chasing down customer success managers, or discovering critical information after something breaks in production.

The cost of that gap is real. Missed communications lead to downtime, deployment errors, and eroded trust in the tools your team depends on. This is especially true for teams building AI and ML pipelines, where changes to the base image or CVE advisories in model-serving infrastructure can have a major downstream impact.

Chainguard customers deserve better. The Activity Center is our answer.

A centralized feed for every update that matters

The Activity Center is part of Chainguard’s Platform and Console experience and surfaces updates across every category that can impact your operations:

• Breaking changes: Timely, targeted alerts before product and engineering changes affect your workflows

• Incidents: Real-time transparency when customer-facing issues arise

• CVEs and advisories: Critical security notifications that require immediate awareness or action

• Image version updates: Targeted alerts scoped to the images your organization actually uses

• Entitlement updates: Changes to your product and feature access

• Product and feature news: Announcements, improvements, and end-of-life awareness

Everything is filterable by category, so each team – platform engineers, security engineers, downstream developers, executive sponsors, and more – can tune the Activity Center to surface what's relevant to their role.

The right update, through the right channel

The Chainguard Console is the Activity Center's home base, but your team shouldn't have to live there to stay informed. Chainguard routes notifications to wherever your teams work:

• Console feed: A centralized, always-available view of recent activity

• Email: Updates based on your preferences

• Slack / Microsoft Teams: Configurable integrations so updates land directly in the tools your teams already use

Admins can configure distinct points of contact, so the right notifications reach the right people automatically, without manual routing or CSM intervention.

What's coming next

The current release focuses on breaking changes and incident notifications, the highest-urgency category for most teams. Granular image lifecycle notifications, entitlement updates, and advanced CVE filtering will be introduced in subsequent phases.

Longer term, we're building toward an API feed so teams can consume image update events, including fixed CVEs, new versions, and severity details directly in their own tooling, automation pipelines, and AI/ML workflows. We're also adding CVE severity thresholds and advanced filtering options for teams that need finer-grained control.

Get started

The Activity Center is available now in the Chainguard Console. Admins can configure notification preferences and set up essential contacts directly in Console Settings. If you're a current customer, we recommend reviewing your notification preferences during your next team check-in to ensure every role is covered.

Log in to the Chainguard Console today to check out the Activity Center and access our public directory.