More Visibility, More Control. What's New in Umbraco Cloud

What these new functionalities have in common is that they help agencies support long-term scale, stability, and client confidence. And we still have more to come just around the corner.

Let’s take a look at what has changed, and what is coming next:

Know what is happening before your client asks

When a client asks about performance, traffic, or availability, it helps to have clear signals close at hand.

Most of the time, those signals are not about fixing something that is broken. They are about understanding how a project behaves over time, spotting patterns earlier, and having better conversations with clients when traffic changes, campaigns go live, or usage grows.

Traffic and Performance Insights 

Traffic and Performance Insights brings operational context directly into the Cloud portal. Teams can analyze traffic patterns, response behavior, and resource signals to better understand how a project is performing and where attention may be needed.

Learn more about Traffic and Performance in the official documentation. 

Hostname Monitoring 

Hostname Monitoring lets agencies track availability and uptime history across their client portfolio, directly from the portal. It can even be used for sites hosted outside of Umbraco Cloud, making it useful for agencies managing multiple projects across different hosting setups.

It is a quiet feature, but a surprisingly practical one for anyone responsible for a growing client portfolio.

Learn more about Hostname Monitoring in the official documentation. 

And if your next question is whether Cloud can also alert you when something needs attention, that is a very good question… We may have something to share about that at Codegarden in just under 2 weeks. 

Control what visitors see when things pause

Deployments happen. Restarts occur. Brief pauses are part of running modern web applications.

But what visitors see in those moments still reflects on your work and your clients’ brand, as a generic server error screen is exactly the kind of thing clients screenshot.

Custom Error and Maintenance Pages let teams configure polished, branded holding pages that maintain a professional visitor experience, even during brief operational pauses.

A small thing, until it matters.

Learn more about Custom Error and Maintenance Pages in the official documentation. 

Hosting that grows with your clients

Projects rarely scale in neat, predictable steps.

A customer starts with a straightforward setup, then the project becomes more important. Traffic grows. Campaigns become more ambitious. The platform supports more markets, more content, or more business-critical journeys. At some point, the conversation is no longer only about more capacity. It is also about isolation, predictability, and confidence.

That is why we are making dedicated resources a more accessible and easier-to-position option in Umbraco Cloud. For some projects, shared Cloud is exactly right. For others, dedicated resources provide a stronger operational setup without the agency needing to move away from Umbraco Cloud or build a custom hosting model.

At Codegarden, we will share more about the next step in this direction, including updated dedicated options and an update on load-balanced setups for projects that need additional capacity. These are among the most requested features in Cloud right now, and we cannot wait to make them available.

There is also a more immediate way to support growing projects. Plan Extensions allow you to add extra bandwidth or media storage via additional resource packages as content expands or traffic increases. This helps Cloud adapt to client growth without forcing a structural change every time. 

For now, configuring these packages runs through your Partner Manager, but they mark a clear product direction toward more granular and flexible scaling options directly in the Cloud interface over time. If you are not an Umbraco Partner and are interested in Plan Extensions, please reach out, and we will find a solution.

Security that works for you in the background

Client expectations around security are rising steadily, and much of the burden of meeting those expectations falls on agencies. Several foundational improvements over the past two years are designed to reduce that overhead without adding complexity to your team’s daily work.

• The built-in Web Application Firewall (WAF) automatically filters common malicious traffic before it reaches the application.

• Managed Challenges help handle unusual traffic surges by verifying human users without adding unnecessary friction for legitimate visitors.

• Hostname Pre-Validation removes much of the last-minute scramble on go-live day by letting teams map domains and prepare TLS certificates before traffic is switched over.

Beyond perimeter security, access control is also evolving. For agencies working with larger client organizations, Custom Identity Provider support brings Single Sign-On to both the Cloud portal and the CMS backoffice. This allows teams to connect Umbraco to Microsoft, Google, Auth0, and other external login systems.

Sustainability reporting, built in

ESG conversations are increasingly part of how clients talk about their digital infrastructure, particularly for organizations with formal reporting requirements.

The Sustainability Dashboard, introduced in 2024, tracks estimated carbon emissions from hosting infrastructure directly in the portal. It provides historical data that can support those client conversations without requiring a separate tool or manual process.

We are also working on improvements that should make this data more detailed and easier to use, including clearer breakdowns across different parts of the hosting setup.

Where Cloud is heading

These updates reflect a consistent direction: making Cloud more visible, more flexible, and more useful in the long-term operation of client solutions.

There is more in the works, and Codegarden 2026 is where we will share more of that direction.

Among the Cloud-related sessions this year, two Umbraco HQ talks are especially relevant to this story:

Running Umbraco in a Changing World (Bjarke Berg, VP Engineering & Head of Cloud) looks at what running Umbraco actually means in 2026. The internet landscape has changed, especially with the rise of automated traffic. Bjarke will look at security, performance, operations, and what every agency should be checking on the sites they operate today.

Build. Scale. Grow. From Running Projects to Growing Portfolios with Umbraco Cloud (Arnold Visser, Head of Business Development) picks up where this post leaves off. Most Umbraco projects are built well, but managing a growing portfolio requires a shift in how delivery and operations are handled. This session explores how Umbraco Cloud is evolving to support agencies as they move from managing individual projects to running a growing portfolio of client solutions with confidence.

Both sessions will be available to attend in person or watch online.

Because building great Umbraco projects is only part of the story. Running them well, growing them over time, and supporting them together is where Umbraco Cloud makes you stronger.