What was released

This section summarizes what was released this week.

Fast lane GA features

These features are generally available for all customers. Slow lane customers and tenants will have these features automatically enabled on August 19, 2026.

monitors: Monitor V2 now has an inline type selector — switch a monitor's type while creating or editing it instead of starting over with a different monitor type.
mcp: MCP OAuth endpoints (/v1/oauth/*) are now enabled for all customers in every cluster. Lets MCP servers and external systems authenticate to Observe via OAuth instead of managing static tokens.
mcp-settings: The MCP server details page now includes setup instructions for Cortex Code CLI and Cortex Code Desktop. Gives users copy-paste guidance for connecting Cortex Code to the Observe MCP server.
opal: OPAL now auto-wraps string indexing in parse_json() and link references in label() for strict-string functions. Reduces manual casting and the type errors that came with it.
charts: Pie charts get improved encoding, hover behavior, and automatic "Others" bucketing. Keeps pie charts readable when a dimension has a long tail of small values.

Slow lane GA features

These features are enabled for all slow lane customers and tenants today.

ai-sre: Documentation search tool for the AI-SRE agent.
connections: CDC change tracking for source datastreams.
expression-builder: Exclude-null and column filter macros in the FilterCondition popover.
monitors: Consecutive cron-scheduled alarms for the same condition stitch into a single ongoing alarm.
monitors: Mute multiple monitors at once in the mute create flow.
service-explorer: Filter the service map and inspector by correlation tags.

Public preview and private preview features

features are available by invitation only. features are available by inquiry.

datasets: Semantic dataset search — find datasets by natural-language query (powers GET /v1/datasets?query=), available on verified clusters by inquiry.
monitors: Seasonal anomaly monitor model refit (automatic retraining of seasonal models) for selected customers.

Bug fixes

The following issues are fixed in this week's release:

monitor-v2: Fixed the monitor loader hanging when the page state cache is reused.
monitor-v2: Fixed the "View APM" link opening the wrong tab and time window.
service-explorer: Fixed edge colors not updating when switching color mode.
service-explorer: Fixed a second-visit reload regression in the service map.
vgraph: Fixed a swallowed query error when fetching the max log version (OB-26255)
monitors: Fixed GraphQL-created monitor mutes not being editable via the REST API.

Coming soon

The following GA features are already available for fast lane customers, and will be enabled for slow lane customers and tenants next week.

ai-sre: Skill-based chart visualization generation for query cards.
apm: Global service dependency map accepts environment and namespace filters without selecting a focal service.
monitors: /v1/monitor-mutes REST API (bulk mute, programmatic mute management) now public and GA.
opal: ai_complete() accepts optional model_parameters, response_format, and show_details arguments.