Release Date: Oct 27th, 2026

1. Overview

Version 2.18.0 brings the Data Profiler Agent to production-ready status, redesigns BrightStudio's navigation around a new Governance hub, and gives every asset a dedicated Profiler tab backed by live platform health data.

Highlights include:

• Data Profiler Agent, Production-Ready: automatically triggers on ingestion, can also be run on demand or on a schedule.

• BrightStudio Navigation Redesign: "The Hive" hub, a dedicated Governance section, and a Notifications Inbox.

• Platform Analytics: a new Health Checks page wired to live service health data.

2. Key Enhancements and Fixes

Data Quality

• The Data Profiler Agent reaches production-ready status.

• Automatically triggers on ingestion, no manual step required.

• Can also be run on demand directly from the asset detail page.

• Supports scheduled batch runs scoped to a workspace.

Navigation & Governance

• Major BrightStudio navigation redesign: a new hub, "The Hive."

• A dedicated Governance section bringing quality, access, and audit into one place.

• A new Notifications Inbox.

• 8 top-level sections cleanly reorganized.

Asset Details

• Asset detail pages gained a Profiler tab.

• Asset detail pages also gained a raw JSON view.

Platform Analytics

• New Health Checks page wired to live service health data.

3. Feedback

We value your feedback to continue improving the Brighthive platform. Please share your thoughts or report issues to support@brighthive.io.

About Brighthive 

Brighthive is an agentic data platform that functions as a data team in a box — a coordinated set of specialized AI agents (BrightAgent) that work the full data lifecycle around the clock: connecting to your sources, cleaning and validating data, enforcing governance and data contracts, and keeping pipelines self-healing and live. Underneath every workspace, Brighthive builds and maintains a living knowledge graph and enterprise data catalog — capturing not just schemas and metadata but the tribal knowledge about your business, use cases, and policies that normally lives only in people's heads. That context is what lets the platform, and every downstream tool, reason accurately about your data instead of guessing. The result: every team inside the enterprise gets to skip the grunt work and go straight to trustworthy, self-service insight — querying, visualizing, and analyzing data faster, on a foundation that's clean and governed by default. Brighthive connects to your existing data stack or stands one up from scratch, augmenting or replacing point tools without disrupting how your team already works.