Datasets & Data Query
January 2026 updates
Suggested Visualizations and Highlights for Visual Explorer. Learn more
December 2025 updates
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
June 2025 updates
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
March 2025 updates
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
December 2024 updates
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
September 2024 updates
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
March 2024 updates
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
February 2024 updates
Navigate from Logs to APM Overview — Smoothly transition from reviewing your logs to exploring key metrics in the related APM service overview. Learn more
July 2023 updates
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
June 2023 updates
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
March 2023 updates
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
February 2023 updates
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.
January 2023 updates
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.
October 2022 updates
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.
September 2022 updates
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
August 2022 updates
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
June 2022 updates
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
May 2022 updates
CX-DATA Archive Format — A new archive format based on Parquet that improves archive query performance by 5X! Learn More >. Learn more