# Q4 2026 Cumulocity Enhancements

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**Created:** [October 14, 2026, 8:04am UTC](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/q4-2026-cumulocity-enhancements/15232 "2026-10-14T08:04:14Z")\
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## Agentic AI, Connected Context, Faster Action: What’s New in Cumulocity Q4 2026

Industrial IoT is evolving beyond simply connecting and monitoring equipment. Increasingly, the opportunity lies in helping people understand operational data, add context and act on it more intelligently.

The Q4 2026 Cumulocity enhancements continue that evolution, with major advances in **Agentic AI, digital twins, industrial data management and streaming analytics** , alongside improvements that make dashboards and applications easier to build and use.

Let’s dive into what’s new.

## Agentic AI

Cumulocity is evolving to provide the **harness for industrial AI** : connecting AI assistants and agents with live equipment data and enterprise context, while providing the controls needed to use AI safely in industrial environments. This direction brings together AI assistants, agent tooling, a semantic OT data layer and an AI Control Plane with policies, guardrails, human oversight and auditability.

### AI Assistant – Public Preview

The **Cumulocity AI Assistant** enters Public Preview as a context-aware AI assistant designed to become the standard way to interact with AI across Cumulocity applications. It provides a common entry point for AI capabilities directly within the applications where operators and engineers already work.

 ![Screenshot 2026-10-06 at 10.09.35](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/cumulocity/original/3X/5/8/5842f02e6c7ad77d844ed920e2df565ee11dbaec.jpeg)

### AI Control Panel – Public Preview

The new **AI Control Panel** provides the foundation for governing AI within Cumulocity. Organisations can bring their own LLM provider, gain observability through OpenTelemetry and use an AI **Circuit Breaker** or “kill switch” when required.

 ![Screenshot 2026-10-06 at 10.10.57](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/cumulocity/original/3X/c/8/c808f9840a96d49ab5bb14fd87085041a8f9775e.jpeg)

[Find more details here](https://cumulocity.com/docs/change-logs/#ai-agents-2-5-0-mtm-67394-control-panel-and-kill-switch-695)

### Code Mode – Public Preview

**Code Mode** provides a secure sandbox where agents can execute code against Cumulocity APIs, giving them an efficient way to perform more sophisticated tasks while keeping execution within a controlled environment.

 ![Screenshot 2026-10-06 at 10.13.34](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/cumulocity/original/3X/f/e/fecde095d0b953da40148aff6b1c40c616614770.png)

[Find more details here](https://cumulocity.com/docs/change-logs/#ai-agents-2-4-0-add-ai-workbench-the-mc-8-yp-rebuild-as-its-own)

### Looking Ahead: AI Acceleration Bundle

From January 2027, the **AI Acceleration Bundle** will bring these capabilities together with ready-to-use expert agents, tools for building your own agents, and an AI Control Plane providing policy enforcement, human-in-the-loop approvals, audit logging and the AI Circuit Breaker. A free preview of the AI capabilities is available today.

## Cockpit

Q4 brings a range of Cockpit enhancements focused on making dashboards more powerful, flexible and easier to customise.

### Enhanced Asset Table Widget

The **Asset Table Widget** has been rebuilt on the data grid, with advanced filtering, sorting and column customisation. It also adds a new Compact Mode to display more assets in smaller spaces, improved sorting for latest measurements and smoother navigation between devices and dashboards.

 ![Screenshot 2026-10-06 at 10.14.17](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/cumulocity/original/3X/9/c/9c952f6f3b031e5f3a76704355ca0de55283012f.png)

[Find more details here](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/february-27-2026-asset-table-widget-enhanced-with-data-grid/14308)

### Enhanced AI SCADA Widget

The modernised **AI SCADA Widget** introduces AI-assisted SVG generation based on asset properties, measurements, alarms and events. Interactive placeholder mapping makes it easier to bind visualisations to live data, while faster rendering, CSS encapsulation and isolated scopes improve performance and security. Existing AngularJS-based SCADA widgets continue to work in legacy mode.

 ![Screenshot 2026-10-06 at 10.14.59](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/cumulocity/original/3X/1/5/152ddd3e06ce8e0b5c9ace796e6e6465d9ed732c.jpeg)

[Find more details here](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/july-13-2026-enhanced-scada-widget/15021)

### Custom Icons for your Assets

The improved icon selector now supports **custom SVG icons** across applications, managed objects and Digital Twin Manager assets. Icons can be defined once at asset-definition level, inherited by assets and overridden individually when needed—making it easier to create a consistent visual experience across Cumulocity.

 ![Screenshot 2026-10-06 at 10.15.32](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/cumulocity/original/3X/b/6/b60b93c07bb058514da7d7acceacf506c969d6b2.jpeg)

[Find more details here](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/august-25-2026-icon-selector-now-supports-custom-svg-icons-and-per-asset-selection/15135)

### Richer Data Graphs and Data Exploration

The **Data Graph widget and Data Explorer** now support multiple aggregation functions for the same data point, min/max bands and automatic aggregation based on the selected time range. Smart zooming provides more detail as users explore their data, while existing widget configurations continue to work without migration.

 ![Screenshot 2026-10-06 at 10.16.00](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/cumulocity/original/3X/5/b/5b010fa62f61be8dc09597d5966250265e1d99f1.jpeg)

[Find more details here](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/august-5-2026-multi-select-support-for-aggregation-functions-and-new-auto-aggregation-mode/15094)

### More Cockpit Improvements

Type dashboards can now be **shared across applications** , making common dashboard experiences easier to reuse. **Angular 21 support** is also available, with Angular 22 support planned for the Web SDK as Cumulocity continues to modernise its frontend technology stack.

[Find more details here](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/august-5-2026-share-type-dashboards-across-applications/15090)

[Find more details here also](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/july-7-2026-angular-21-upgrade/15013)

## Digital Twin Manager

Q4 brings operational data and asset context closer together, while simplifying how organisations work with large enterprise asset structures.

### Data-on-Assets

**Data-on-Assets** connects device telemetry directly with Digital Twin assets. Data-point mappings automatically map measurements to assets, while additional context such as meaningful names, units and target ranges makes operational data easier to understand and use.

This creates a stronger foundation for reusable dashboard templates, default rules and KPIs, while providing richer context for AI-assisted applications and analytics.

 ![Screenshot 2026-10-06 at 10.20.04](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/cumulocity/original/3X/f/9/f9c3568c13fdc891a674f9603e41ff48ea79675b.png)

### Simplified Enterprise Asset Management

Several Asset API enhancements reduce the number of calls required when working with large asset hierarchies. Developers can create and assign subassets in a single request, resolve asset definitions for multiple IDs at once, For sub-assets assignment avoid unnecessarily returning full subasset collections, and retrieve parent references more efficiently. All changes are backward compatible.

[Find more details here](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/august-5-2026-create-and-assign-subassets-in-a-single-request/15092)

### More Languages for Digital Twin Manager

Digital Twin Manager now supports **seven additional languages** : Chinese, Dutch, French, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. Together with English and German, this brings DTM in line with the language options available across other Cumulocity applications.

[Find more details here](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/august-25-2026-digital-twin-manager-now-supports-multiple-language-translations/15134)

## DataHub 2.0

Industrial data architectures are changing. Open standards such as **Apache Parquet and Apache Iceberg** have become mainstream, while AI is creating new demand for scalable analytical access to operational data. DataHub 2.0 responds to these trends by moving from accessible IoT data toward **agent-ready data**.

### Open IoT Lakehouse with Streaming Lake Ingestion – Public Preview

At the heart of DataHub 2.0 is an **open IoT lakehouse with Streaming Lake Ingestion** , designed around three principles:

- **Simpler:** Activate it and Cumulocity handles schema evolution and lake maintenance in the background.
- **Fresher:** Data becomes available within **less than five minutes** , supporting scalable long-term analytics and operational decision-making.
- **Open:** Apache Iceberg and Parquet provide integration with analytics platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, AWS Athena and Microsoft Fabric.

This gives organisations an open foundation for bringing Cumulocity IoT data together with their broader enterprise data ecosystem.

Find more details here

### Looking Ahead: Lake Analytics

The DataHub roadmap continues toward **Lake Analytics** , including time-series aggregation, AI Assistant integration through MCP and, longer term, agent-ready time-series analysis.

The goal is to prepare industrial data so AI agents can quickly work with trends, anomalies, KPIs and other analytical results—opening up use cases ranging from equipment insights and alarm triage to measurement correction and connectivity analysis.

Find more details here

## Streaming Analytics

Q4 also makes **Streaming Analytics and Analytics Builder** easier to debug, troubleshoot and maintain.

### Inline Debugging in Analytics Builder

New **inline debugging** brings an expandable log pane directly into the Analytics Builder canvas. Combined with the Logger block, users can “tap the wire” to inspect the values moving through a model, view logs relevant to the active model and make adjustments without leaving the editor.

The capability is initially available for standalone models, with support for templated models pending feedback.

 ![Screenshot 2026-10-06 at 10.22.13](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/cumulocity/original/3X/2/d/2d6b1d7d344b410d23cceed47463f4a8f93e6930.jpeg)

### More Streaming Analytics Improvements\*\*

Full apama-ctrl microservice logs can now be accessed directly from the Streaming Analytics application, reducing the need to switch to Administration when troubleshooting.

Expression blocks also gain **[IF-THEN-ELSE](https://cumulocity.com/docs/change-logs/?productarea=.productarea-analytics#apama-in-c8y-20260810-ternary-operator-now-available-in-the-analytics-builder-expression-block)** support through the ternary conditional operator, making conditional logic easier to build within visual models.

Finally, the underlying Apama runtime is moving to **[Debian 13 and Java 25](https://cumulocity.com/docs/change-logs/?productarea=.productarea-analytics#apama-in-c8y-20260925-debian13-release)** for improved performance and security. Standard visual models require no changes, while customers using custom Java/EPL connectivity plug-ins or custom Python extensions should verify compatibility ahead of the rollout.

## API Updates & Security

Q4 introduces further enhancements to Cumulocity’s security and connectivity capabilities, strengthening authentication, simplifying permission management and supporting more scalable device communication.

### Enhanced Security

Cumulocity continues to strengthen its security posture with support for **certificates without a Common Name** , a centralised permission-checking service and certificate-based user authentication.

An important API change also affects password updates. Password changes through general user APIs are being removed, with applications and scripts required to use `PUT /user/currentUser/password` instead. On SaaS instances and 2027 yearly releases, the password field in general user API requests will be ignored.

[Find more details here](https://cumulocity.com/docs/change-logs/#cumulocity-x509-certificate-based-authentication-for-system-integrations)

## And Much More

Q4 2026 continues Cumulocity’s evolution toward a more intelligent, open and context-aware approach to industrial IoT.

Agentic AI brings AI assistants and specialised agents closer to operational workflows. Digital Twin Manager connects live telemetry with richer asset context. DataHub 2.0 creates an open foundation for analytics and AI, while Cockpit and Streaming Analytics continue to make those capabilities easier to visualise, build and operate.

Together, these enhancements help organisations move more quickly from **connected equipment and raw data to meaningful insight and action**.
