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Distributed Tracing 1.45.0

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:52:59 +0000

1.45.0

Minor Changes

Added codelevel information as a separate tab in the waterfall, displaying the stack trace.
Added hint to grouping table when results are truncated.

Patch Changes

When using the context menu in the trace view to add a filter, the app now switches into spans viewing mode if appropriate.
Fixed a crash when copying and pasting into the timeframe selector.
Fixed classic profiling intents not appearing for spans missing the dt.smartscape.process field.
Migrated usage-full-stack dashboard DQL queries to a dual-path Smartscape/classic entity ID pattern.

Distributed Tracing 1.43.1

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:35:06 +0000

1.43.1

Patch Changes

Added missing default value for HostGroup variable in usage-full-stack dashboard.
Restored the custom color palette of the timeseries chart in the Explorer.
Fixed db.query.parameters attributes not being correctly populated as table columns.
Fixed Explorer list table crashing when a column ID with special characters was selected.

1.43.0

Minor Changes

Added a toggle to disable smartscape naming for service field.
Removed the filter by trace and span dropdown from the logs viewer tab and the exceptions tab in trace view.

Patch Changes

Fixed span details drilldown intents to use the trace timeframe instead of the individual span's time window.
Fixed invalid timeframe errors in services app when navigating via the span attributes service link.
Profiling intent now always uses ambient sampling mode.
Improved tooltip for frontend integration.

Distributed Tracing 1.43.0

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:00:52 +0000

1.43.0

Minor Changes

Added a toggle to disable smartscape naming for service field.
Removed the filter by trace and span dropdown from the logs viewer tab and the exceptions tab in trace view.

Patch Changes

Fixed span details drilldown intents to use the trace timeframe instead of the individual span's time window.
Fixed invalid timeframe errors in services app when navigating via the span attributes service link.
Profiling intent now always uses ambient sampling mode.
Improved tooltip for frontend integration.

Distributed Tracing 1.40.2

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:26:09 +0000

1.40.2

Minor Changes

Added new ready-made dashboard "Usage - Full-Stack"
Added service icon in front of service name columns.
Added exception-without-stack-trace count to the stack trace table.

Patch Changes

Updated duration bar colors to use a neutral color.
The browser tab now shows the active view name (Explorer, Exceptions, Add traces, Welcome) as the page title for a clearer browser history experience.
Updated Stack Trace Table to respect the selected Exception Sampling mode.
Fixed service color shown in trace view.

Distributed Tracing 1.39.1

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:26:15 +0000

1.39.1

Patch Changes

Fix view traces intent filtering by end time

1.39.0

Minor Changes

Added intent action to the Databases app for database spans.

Patch Changes

Field suggestions now return complete results on large environments with high data volumes.

Distributed Tracing 1.39.0

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:42:44 +0000

1.39.0

Minor Changes

Smartscape on Grail are used. The classic entities utilizing legacy dt.entity.* attributes are automatically replaced by dt.smartscape.* attributes.

Note: Service names are now in sync with the new Explorer in Services app, this shows service names as they exist in the telemetry itself, not the display names that service naming rules applied, for details, check: https://dt-url.net/newexplorer

Added service name chip in the chart header when filtering by a single service.
Explorer list shows your most recent requests and spans matching your filter, and an indicator bar shows you exactly which timeframe the list covers, so you always know what you're looking at.
Explorer list allows configurable limit up to 10k spans.
Increased logs limit for Single trace view to 50k logs and for Exceptions to 10k logs.
Increased spans limit for Single trace view to 100k spans.
Single trace view is auto-expanded by default.
Increase limits for grouping feature to be aligned with the chart.
Added intent action to the Databases app for database spans.
Introduced FaaS invocation span icons to Single trace view.

Patch Changes

Fixed certain span attributes not properly appearing in the filter bar when added from the attribute value context menu.
Fixed field ids not being resolved reliably to display names.
Field suggestions now return complete results on large environments with high data volumes.

Distributed Tracing 1.36.0

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:33:02 +0000

1.36.0

Minor Changes

Switched duration bar scaling to use Symlog scaling to better display values visually.
Fixed filter value suggestions to show all available values when using OR conditions. AND conditions continue to scope suggestions to matching values.
Columns configuration are now split for Requests and Spans view mode.

Patch Changes

Fixed request grouping table not showing data.

Distributed Tracing 1.35.0

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:31:00 +0000

1.35.0

Minor Changes

Added keyboard shortcuts to the span list and exception grouping tables:
- Press L on a focused span list row to open related logs.
- Press T on a focused exception grouping row to view traces.
- Opening a detail panel moves focus into it; pressing Escape closes the panel and returns focus to the table.
Added primary and domain tags in facets panel and details view.
Improved search in trace view: the search now matches across all span attributes, and steppers let you traverse between matching results.
Suppressed single trace view chip when there are no warnings and updated trace ID chip.
Added view-traces-addon intent that opens a modal allowing users to navigate through a list of matching traces using stepper.
Added drilldowns when the trace view is opened as an add-on modal.
Improved drilldown actions with updated visual layout.

Patch Changes

Fixed exception count in Trace view to be aligned with the number of rows in the exception table.
Adapted duration percentiles to account for sampled and aggregated spans.
Fixed incorrect span fields caching.
Fixed a crash in span details when a span attribute holds an empty array.
Fixed wrong exception being selected when clicking row in trace waterfall in rare circumstances.
Improved the empty state message shown when no exceptions are found.
Fixed the Exception Analysis table crashing when re-ordering columns in a specific way.
Exception class is now pinned in the Exceptions analysis.
Fixed a DQL parsing error where unquoted string values in facet filters were not being properly escaped.

Distributed Tracing 1.34.0

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:04:09 +0000

1.34.0

Minor Changes

Adapted span details to display attributes in alphabetical order.
Added a fallback URL displayed in waterfall table when url.full is not available.

Patch Changes

The Exception class is now always kept as the first grouping column in Exception Analysis.
Fixed invalid exception filter when navigating from grouping mode to Exception Analysis.
Fixed app crashing when using unsupported comparison operators in the filter field.
Fixed view trace modal not rendering when start_time is absent from intent payload.
Fixed warning toast showing multiple times in trace view.
Fixed an error in Exception Analysis when expanding grouped rows or changing grouping order.

Distributed Tracing 1.32.2

Tue, 19 May 2026 12:40:11 +0000

1.32.2

Minor Changes

Update Full-Stack Adaptive Traffic Management and trace capture dashboard with clearer metrics and volume breakdown.
Added meter bar visualization to the duration cell in the span list table.
Enabled Davis Copilot conversations in the trace Logs viewer.
Added keyboard shortcuts: press [S] to jump to the search bar, press [F] to jump to the filter field.

Patch Changes

Fixed error in "Usage - Traces" ready-made dashboard when no users or data are available.
Fixed list/grouping toggle button group disappearing on smaller screen sizes.
Fixed view trace action in request table.
Fixed an issue where the search input in Exception Analysis could drop keystrokes when typing.
Fixed explorer table not updating data when switching view mode.
Improved error handling with more user friendly messages.
Improved formatting of facet counts.

Distributed Tracing 1.30.1

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:38:09 +0000

1.30.1

Minor Changes

Added a new ready-made dashboard "Usage - traces" for usage traces.
Added possibility to cancel running queries.
Added counts for suggestion based facets.
Added span name to single trace view if endpoint limit is reached.
Added support for opening a trace in a new browser tab by Ctrl+click (Win), Cmd+click (Mac), or middle-click on a list table row.
Added the help menu entry for keyboard shortcuts.
Improved span name visibility in trace view waterfall table by pinning Gantt chart column.
Improved Exceptions analysis logic by applying exception class filter to queries.
Improve performance of single trace view by loading non-essential span attributes on-demand.
Improved trace view tree assembly in some cases when alternate parent span id is present.

Patch Changes

Fixed filters applied from boolean facets resulting in invalid filter statements.
Fixed certain attributes being misspelled in filter bar and facets.
Fixed browser back button not clearing segments in segment selector.
Fixed a facet error when filtering exclusively by its own field.
Fixed grouping selection change not switching to grouping table.
Fixed app crashing when entering a key with spaces in filter field.
Fixed a chart error in Exception Analysis when filtering only by non-exception fields.
Fixed facets showing error for certain request attributes with spaces and brackets in attribute name.
Fixed an issue where facets were incorrectly shown in loading state.
Fixed stack traces table showing stack traces of unrelated exceptions.
Fixed display names sometimes bleeding into DQL queries through the filter state.
Fixed first row in the Explorer list table being unselectable.
Fixed zooming in the histogram chart resulting in an error.
Fixed exceptions page table cell actions not allowing to apply filter actions.
Replaced the feedback link in the help menu with an inline feedback form.
Fixed trace view span attributes not loading in certain cases.
Fixed an issue with the action buttons in the logs panel.
Made a few previously hidden fields like http.status_code available for filtering.
Improved loading of trace view span attributes.

Distributed Tracing 1.27.1

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:02:13 +0000

1.27.1

Patch Changes

Added support for preserving column sorting in the URL.
Fixed certain spans being filtered out in explorer timeseries chart
Fixed Explorer sidebar not being dismissible on mobile.
Fixed sub-optimal sampling ratio being applied to queries for Exceptions screen.

Minor Changes

Added raw/extrapolation mode settings to Exception Analysis.
Added trace duration chip to single trace view header
Removed cooldown of Refresh button.

Distributed Tracing 1.26.0

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:42:24 +0000

1.26.0

Minor Changes

Added button to single trace modal allowing to navigate to Distributed Tracing app.

Patch Changes

Fixed incorrect welcome screen when no trace data is ingested.

Distributed Tracing 1.24.1

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:39:54 +0000

1.24.1

Patch Changes

Fixed an issue where the view trace intent failed to show a trace.

1.24.0

Minor Changes

Deduplicated exceptions in trace view exceptions list table.
Added URL path attribute to endpoints node in waterfall table.

Patch Changes

Fixed line height miscalculation when closing and opening attributes in the single trace view.

Distributed Tracing 1.24.0

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:38:14 +0000

1.24.0

Minor Changes

Improved exceptions chaining in trace view exceptions list table.
Added URL path attribute to endpoints nodes in waterfall table.

Patch Changes

Fixed line height miscalculation when closing and opening attributes in the single trace view.

Distributed Tracing 1.22.0

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:31:16 +0000

1.22.0

Features

Added a new "Exceptions" perspective to the Distributed Tracing app that offers a streamlined way to analyze exceptions and errors over time, dive into aggregated stacktraces for full context and identify impacted services and endpoints.

Patch Changes

Ensured nanosecond precision for the calculation of the trace time.
Excluded spans with invalid or anomalous durations to enhance the accuracy of duration-based queries.
Exception analysis now leads to 3rd gen Services app, if it is already enabled.
Fixed browser history pollution for trace view.
Updated Kubernetes-related intents with new IDs.

Distributed Tracing 1.21.1

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:57:37 +0000

1.21.1

Patch Changes

Removed default first row expansion behavior from Grouping table.
Showed a banner when the user is filtering for an opaque service.
Fixed an issue where a warning toast was incorrectly shown in the trace view.
Fixed filter field lagging behind keystrokes when typing fast.
Fixed timeframe resetting to 30 mins due to daylight savings time.
Added all segment read permissions.

Distributed Tracing 1.21.0

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:42:41 +0000

1.21.0

Minor Changes

Added support for persisting collapsed/expanded state of the bottom panel in the trace view.

Patch Changes

Fixed issue where the view mode selector could become out of sync with the applied view mode during rapid switching.
Fixed issue regarding the span attribute panel if there is a specific mix of simple and complex attributes.

Distributed Tracing 1.20.0

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:31:13 +0000

1.20.0

Minor Changes

Added bi-directional scrolling to exceptions and waterfall table.
Added row actions for the exceptions table in the trace view.

Patch Changes

Fixed iterative negation filters not matching for null or empty arrays.
Fixed empty warning notification shown in case of duplicate spans when viewing a single trace.

Distributed Tracing 1.19.0

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 07:49:40 +0000

1.19.0

Minor Changes

Replaced exceptions key-value list with expandable caused-by chain and introduced span/trace mode toggle.
Removed view-service intent (view-traces should be used instead).

Patch Changes

Fixed filter field being cut off when it displayed multiple lines.
Fixed an issue where opening a trace from other apps would not find any spans in the trace view.
Fixed an issue where waterfall collapses opened nodes when selecting a log in single trace view.
Fixed a crash when opening a span in the trace view with exceptions but without exception ids in the failure detection results field.
Fixed missing segments selector proposals by requiring smartscape read permission.