Changes.Watch

Observability changelog digest

May 4 - May 10, 2026. Useful releases, risky migrations, and noisy updates from the Observability channel.

No matching updates in this bucket.

Observability updates in 2026-w19

Monitors & Alerts — Now Generally Available

  • Introduced GA release separating alerts into Monitors and Alerts for finer-grained tracking.
  • Provides teams with enhanced control over monitoring configurations and notification routing.

Application Metrics are now GA

  • Application Metrics reach General Availability with high‑cardinality, trace‑connected data.
  • Metrics can be tagged with custom attributes (e.g., user ID, region, plan) and sliced at query time.
  • Spikes now surface linked traces, logs, or errors to simplify root‑cause analysis.

Snapshots is now available in Early Access

  • Introduces Snapshots in Early Access for image storage, diffing, and CI integration
  • Enables detection of unintended visual regressions in CI pipelines

Cross-Event Querying is now Generally Available

  • Cross-Event Querying is now generally available
  • Enables join queries across logs, metrics, and spans