Observe platform

Enhancements

A new Customer settings page is added so you can self-service your single sign-on (SSO) authentication and configure password policies. See Configure single sign-on.

New features

We're happy to introduce our revamped documentation site, with an updated look and feel and some restructured content. Observe's API documentation, formerly at developer.observeinc.com, is now also available on the new docs website on the Developer Docs tab.

Span links are added to span details so that you can correlate and link spans that might not be part of the same trace but could be related in some other ways. See Examine trace details.

In the left navigation rail, you can set the user interface to light mode, dark mode, or select Auto to have your user interface follow your system's light and dark mode settings. See Select light and dark mode settings.

The save modal for saving Datasets now provides edit-forward functionality. When it's possible to do so, the Save without re-materializing option is active in the save modal, so you can save your Dataset at no cost.

This release introduces scheduled monitors, so that you can bring your existing scheduled alerting patterns with minimal friction, accelerating migrations from other platforms and services.

Typical use cases it unlocks:

• Any process runing on a fixed schedule, such as batch or ETL jobs, can now be monitored on that same schedule.
• Nightly backups across multiple databases and clusters.
• End-of-day financial and compliance jobs (statements and settlements).

This release improves the accesibility of reference tables by making them viewable from the Resource Explorer.

This release introduces introduces an updated left navigation rail and new themes. You can read the blog post for all the detials.

This release introduces a new Dataset page:

• Redesigned Datasets page that acts as a central place to create and manage your Datasets, including the Dataset definition, properties, tags, and access control.
• The OPAL console and Dataset definition now includes complexity analysis to help you build efficient, predictable OPAL pipelines.

This release introduces the ability to view runtime metrics for your services in Observe APM.

• Query history: A cached query history is available on the Log Explorer page, as well as the Resource, Trace, and Metric Explorers.
• Waterfall charts: Use waterall charts to easily analyze your span and trace data.

This week we introduce the Observe Community Forum, a shared, searchable space where customers, users, and developers can share best practices, collaborate on use cases, and build a growing library of answers.

This release includes the ability to create reference tables from the UI.

This release contains internal bug fixes.

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This release includes enhancements to data tables to use row numbers instead of checkboxes.

This release contains internal bug fixes.

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• Improved Password Policy for Backend (OB-30043): Added checks for uppercase, lowercase, and numeric characters to align password creation flows with frontend standards. This applies to both admin and regular user flows, ensuring a consistent experience.
• Monitors Title & Message Fields (OB-42437): Added new monitor-level inputs and mustache variables to make monitor action messages more modular and easy to use.
• Dashboard Parameter Copy Functionality (OB-38547): Introduced functionality to allow easy copying of parameter values from dashboards.
• Axis Configuration for Charts (OB-41694): Introduced the ability to set units on the x-axis for charts, improving data interpretation and presentation.

• RBAC Default Permissions UI Bug Fix (OB-42191): Resolved issue where the ‘Viewer’ role did not appear in the selectable dropdown for default group permissions, enabling more granular permission assignments.

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