February 2026
10 min
🆕 search usage dashboard release date feb 19, 2026 ✨ what's new in flare, you can now explore the search usage page, which shows how global searches are consumed—by member and by tenant—with the ability to change the date range 🎯 why it matters this new visibility into search usage helps you understand search patterns across your organization, identify power users, monitor consumption by tenant, and make data driven decisions about search resource allocation the flexible date range filtering allows you to analyze trends over time and optimize your search strategy 🆕 improved alert channels, now in the integration page release date feb 12, 2026 ✨ what’s new rebuilt alert channels — we've refactored the entire alert channel framework across 10 supported channels (slack, teams, discord, jira, servicenow, splunk, azure sentinel, email, and webhook) key improvements include better performance and reliability, improved monitoring, and expanded test alert event types alert channels → integrations page — alert channel creation now lives on the integrations page, giving you a single pane of glass for all your integrations (including idp) you'll see a notice on the legacy alert channels tab pointing you to the new location 🎯 why it matters this will enable a centralized view of integrations and permit better performance for alert channels 🆕 actor intelligence for chat based sources release date feb 5, 2026 ✨ what’s new actor intelligence now supports chat based sources, including telegram you can click any underlined actor name in a chat sourced event to access their activity timeline, heatmaps, network graph, and more 🎯 why it matters previously, actor intelligence was limited to forum based actors with threat actors increasingly active on chat platforms, this update lets you investigate and profile telegram actors with the same tools — closing a key visibility gap ⚠️ note auto generated analysis is not yet available for chat based actors these will roll out over the coming weeks and will populate automatically these will be auto generated in the coming weeks for now, the analysis may take a minute or two to process when you open the analysis tab 🆕 telegram in threat flow release date feb 5 2026 ✨ what’s new threat flow now ingests data from chat based conversations — including telegram — alongside existing forum coverage 🎯 why it matters conversation explorer and custom intel queries now surface results from telegram channels and groups, giving you visibility into threat actor activity that previously lived outside threat flow's reach this significantly expands the intelligence available when investigating threats or creating intel reports chat based sources are enabled by default to exclude them, adjust your source types in filters