During 2025-10, guardian/service-catalogue delivered key features to tighten data ingestion controls, improve ECS reliability and observability, and strengthen testing, while addressing a critical AWS plugin/CloudWatch scheduling bug. The work enhanced governance, reliability, and maintainability of the service catalogue data pipeline and its AWS ECS integration.

September 2025 monthly summary for guardian/service-catalogue: Focused enhancements to CloudQuery integration delivering explicit data source controls, centralized and deterministic data filtering, and clarified per-source governance. These changes improve data accuracy, auditability, and maintainability, enabling precise data collection and repeatable results across environments.

In August 2025, delivered a policy-driven enhancement to contributor security and onboarding for guardian/riff-raff. The primary change updated the CONTRIBUTING.md to require VPN when contributing remotely if the prism tool is not running locally, clarifying network access prerequisites and reducing potential security gaps. No major bugs were fixed this month; the focus was on documentation, policy alignment, and developer experience. The change is expected to streamline secure collaboration for external and internal contributors while maintaining the project’s security posture.

July 2025 monthly summary for guardian/service-catalogue focused on improving developer-facing documentation for SQL views and maintaining high standards for knowledge sharing. Delivered targeted documentation clarifications to reduce ambiguity around core views, enabling faster self-service analytics and onboarding. No major bugs reported this period in the repository. Overall impact: improved maintainability, reduced support overhead, and strengthened alignment between data views and usage in Grafana/ELK workflows.