What's new this week

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 September 30, 2026.

ai-sre: AI-assisted monitor creation now runs on the more capable Page mode AI, improving the quality and conversational flow of AI-guided monitor setup. Eliminates the rigid prompt-and-advisory-tools flow in favor of a more flexible, context-aware interaction that better handles complex monitor configurations.
monitors: Monitor create and edit forms now include an optional missing-data alert expiration override, letting teams set a custom duration (up to 24 hours; default is 2 hours plus the lookback window) for how long a missing-data alert stays active before it auto-expires. Eliminates the need to manually close stale missing-data alerts after data resumes flowing.

Slow lane GA features

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

ai-sre: AI-guided creation for threshold and anomaly monitors — including notification action editing — is now enabled for all slow-lane AI-SRE customers, completing its rollout to all tiers. Fast-lane GA was 2026-07-29.

Public preview and private preview features

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

navigation: Simplified URL format is now enabled for selected customers — workspace path prefixes are no longer included in generated URLs. Legacy prefixed URLs continue to work.

Bug fixes

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

monitors: Slack notification actions were missing the headline text in their message format. (OB-65753)
ai-sre: Sensitive data — including AI data-extraction samples, monitor alarm values, and query results — is now properly redacted in AI query and monitor contexts. (OB-65908)
iceberg-catalog: Multiple reliability fixes: metadata tables are now reachable, vended credential session expiry is correctly sent, failed fills are no longer served, and silent load-table retries no longer mask errors. (OB-65537, OB-65931, OB-65461, OB-64937)
worksheets: Several worksheet export and v0-to-v2 pipeline converter fixes: expression builder and declared input split are restored after conversion, card inputs now read from the correct stage input list, and dataset filter types and parameter allow-empty flags are correctly preserved. (OB-65809, OB-65526, OB-65527, OB-65605, OB-65838)
filters: Removing a correlation tag filter pill now correctly clears the filter. (OB-62884)
filters: Tag equality filter pill values containing special characters are now correctly quoted. (OB-63295)
playground: API Playground no longer includes an embedded bearer token alongside cookie credentials, preventing double-authentication failures. (OB-63432)
dashboard: Default empty state is now sized to its content. (OB-65874)

APM Tracing Content Rollout

The following APM tracing schema and content changes are rolling out this week.

Non-breaking changes

service-metrics: Service Edge Metrics are now sourced from Canonical Trace (previously Service Explorer Spans). Service Metrics have been restructured: a single service_type column (Service, Database, Message Broker, External) now replaces the independent is_database and is_message_broker boolean columns. New customers default to RED metrics generated by the agent instead of Tracing/Service Metrics.
service-explorer: The ModelMessageBrokerEntities flag will be flipped on by default in the next scheduled breaking upgrade, modeling message brokers as first-class entities across Service Explorer.

Breaking changes

None.

Terraform provider

The following updates are available in the Observe Terraform provider.

v0.14.67 (2026-08-28)

Bug fixes

query: Stop perpetual plan diff from stage inputs no stage uses.
dataset: Prevent perpetual diff from link-derived inputs.
dashboard: Stop perpetual diff from stage input datasetId OID form.
Warn when a dataset pipeline stage has no effect.
Fix perpetual diff when stage input names the preceding stage's alias.

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.

tags: Global tag management — create and manage tags across datasets, monitors, and dashboards from a central tags page.
ai-sre: MCP settings page, CLI install instructions, and native o11y agent API tools.
datasets: Real-time (p90) freshness in dataset headers and the REST API, with goal-relative staleness reason reporting.