Datasets & data query

Explore the trace drilldown — New dedicated documentation covers the trace drilldown and its three main areas: trace view, Info Panel, and Related Data. Quickly move from a selected span to correlated logs, infrastructure context, and profiling without leaving the page. Learn more

New documentation for trace and span headers — Learn how to use header menus to pivot to correlated logs, APM service context, or profiles, and to refine your active query directly from the drilldown. Learn more

Suggested Visualizations and Highlights for Visual Explorer. Learn more

Access Control for Datasets. Learn more

Save Results as Datasets for Background Queries. Learn more

Compare Mode for Highlights. Learn more

Use-cases for Relational Queries. Learn more

Faster insights with Metrics Explorer — Explore metrics instantly with our upgraded Metrics Explorer. Query and visualize your time series data in real time, without writing complex queries. Learn more

Identify latency issues in seconds — Understand how different users, IP addresses, pages, domains, protocols, operating systems, language versions, and more impact performance in your system. Learn more

Jump from an error log to a span in one keystroke — Press the space bar on any log to instantly uncover a full breakdown, including related logs and correlated traces. Learn more

Get to root causes faster for better user experiences — Uncover patterns and outliers with RUM Highlighting to quickly identify the root causes of performance issues. Learn more

Explore Data Your Way with Visual Explorer — Instantly visualize your queries without creating dashboards with Visual Explorer's easy to use interface. Correlate logs, spans, and metrics side-by-side. Learn more

A new way to visualize your traces with the Service View — Easily visualize large and complex traces with the Service View. Simplify debugging, rapidly identify issues, and visualize how your services interact. Learn more

Effortlessly Organize Saved Views — With our improved user interface, you can effortlessly save your views, determine privacy settings, and organize your saved views with Folders. Learn more

Navigate from Logs to APM Overview — Smoothly transition from reviewing your logs to exploring key metrics in the related APM service overview. Learn more

Recording Rules — See/update existing recording rules and create new ones using the new UI for Recording Rules. Learn more

Tracing Visualization — Added 'max, min and avg' aggregate display for tracing graphs, shareable URL for dependency graph, Services tab showing execution time, recenter option. Learn more

Traces Flame View — A new 'Flame View' added to the existing Traces Dependency view and Gantt view. Learn more

Metric Recording Rules — New UI for Recording Rules now much easier to create new recorded metrics. Import a YAML file or create a rule group. Learn more

Explore Screen Improvements — Group-by option added to logs archive histogram; traces dependency graph now supports a few 1,000s of spans; 'Manage Keys' pop-up added to columns. Learn more

Permutations Graph — Events2Metrics now includes a graph that displays the amount of permutations actually used and permutations left. Learn more

Service Catalog Filters — The service catalog now includes a filter panel, similar to the logs Explore screen, to filter services based on specific characteristics in the span tags. Learn more

Content Column — A new Content Column added to the 'Explore' screen grid to improve visibility for content fields, extracting meaningful textual content from logs. View Documentation >. Learn more

Logs2Metrics is now Events2Metrics! — You can now generate metrics from spans in addition to log data! View Documentation >. Learn more

Content Column — New column in 'Explore' screen grid automatically extracts the key with the meaningful textual content in the log.

Lucene Syntax Highlighting — Lucene syntax highlighting makes it easier to read and write queries. Available everywhere in the platform where you can write Lucene queries.

UI/UX Improvements — Default 'flat' mode for cleaner 1-line, 2-line, and condensed presentation modes. New 'List' presentation mode. Object columns can now be filtered to display a subset of fields.

Tracing Updates — Query your tracing data with Lucene syntax in the tracing UI. The dependency view is now the default tracing view with metadata on the right-hand side.

Archive Query Improvements / DataFusion Query Engine Enhancements — Supporting a conservative 5X increase in query speeds over AWS Athena, with no hard limit to the number of partitions scanned.

Explore Updates — TCO Priority Added as Metadata. Tracking Logical Data Types (IP Addresses, URLs, Emails). Content Type Icons added to Column Headers.

Enhancements to Logs Screen UI — Mapping Exception indicator added. New Row Formats (1-Line, 2-Line, Condensed, JSON) for logs display. Learn More >. Learn more

Explore UI Improvements — Log Screen improvements: sort tooltips by order, compact large numbers, resizable legend container. Tracing Screen: crosshair on hover. DataMap Filtering & Actions. Open Dashboard >. Learn more

Archive Query Updates — Timeframes up to 3 days for added accessibility to data in your remote bucket. New Execute Archive Query function allows you to review active filters before running. Learn More >. Learn more

Tracing Updates — New dynamic graphs and saved views in the Tracing UI for SLA dashboards. Three default graphs: Max duration by Action, Count by Service, and Error Count by Service. Aggregation operators for 99, 95, and 50th percentiles. Learn More >. Learn more

CX-DATA Archive Format — A new archive format based on Parquet that improves archive query performance by 5X! Learn More >. Learn more