January’s release is one of our biggest so far. We focused heavily on auto-instrumentation, APM usability, search, AI-powered workflows, and Kubernetes visibility—along with major improvements across alerts, pipelines, dashboards, and endpoint monitoring.

Here’s everything that shipped 👇

Simplified Kubernetes Auto-Instrumentation

We’ve redesigned the entire K8s auto-instrumentation experience.

  • One-script installation – no extra configuration required
  • Updated UI/UX for clearer setup flow
  • Infrastructure agents are now grouped by platform:
    • Kubernetes
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • ECS
    • Heroku

This makes onboarding faster and much easier to understand.

 

Auto-Instrumentation for Linux Hosts

Middleware agents can now:

  • Detect services running on Linux hosts automatically
  • Enable APM auto-instrumentation for:
    • Java
    • Node.js
    • Python

No manual configuration required.

 

Auto-Discovery of Databases

As part of auto-instrumentation:

  • Agents now detect running databases automatically
  • Databases appear in the UI for easy configuration and monitoring

Endpoint Monitoring (formerly API Catalogue)

We’ve completely revamped API Catalog into full Endpoint Monitoring.

  • Connect API definitions via:
    • GitHub
    • File upload

Endpoint detail view includes:

  • Parameters breakdown:
    • Path
    • Query
    • Body
  • Response metrics:
    • Requests vs errors
    • Latency
  • Dependency map
  • Span & trace summary
  • Error breakdown per endpoint

This gives deep observability at the API level. Refer doc for more details.

Notebooks for Logs

You can now create notebooks that combine:

  • Logs
  • Metrics
  • Traces
  • Notes

Perfect for:

  • Incident investigations
  • Performance analysis
  • Postmortems
  • Sharing context with teammates

Get started by creating notebooks, refer to this documentation for details.

Alerts – Less Noise, More Signal

Alert Templates

Prebuilt templates for:

    • Kubernetes
    • Infrastructure
    • APM
  • Logs

Select a template → auto-configured alert.

Improvements

  • Updated default thresholds to reduce noise
  • Improved alert drill-down view to show:
    • Triggering data
    • Alert configuration context

Unified Pipeline

We merged the Ingestion Control Agent Pipeline into one unified Pipeline.

New capabilities

  • Select hosts / clusters as data sources
  • Apply ingestion control directly via pipelines
  • Centralized management of data flow

Simplified Vercel Integration

Vercel integration is now one-click installable:

  • No code changes required
  • Automatically configures:
    • Log drains
    • Trace drains
  • Correlates logs and traces out of the box

Extended log source support , Now includes:

  • Redirect
  • Static
  • Lambda
  • Edge
  • Build
  • External
  • Firewall

📖 Full documentation here.

Search Across the Entire Platform

We introduced global command search:

  • Press Ctrl / Cmd + K anywhere
  • Search for:
    • Screens (Traces, API Catalog, Dashboards, etc.)
    • Actions (create alert, create dashboard, etc.)

Think of it as command palette for observability.

APM – Smarter Setup & Better UX

Dynamic Setup Guide

APM now adapts setup suggestions based on your actual services:

  • See whether alerts, logs, synthetics, or infra monitoring exist for a service
  • Configure missing pieces directly from the service view
  • Guided setup based on detected service metadata

UI Enhancements

  • Interactive icons added to:
    • All APM labels
    • Side panels
  • Attribute-based icons added in log detail views

Infrastructure Monitoring

Kubernetes Policies

  • Updated Custom Resource screen
  • Enhanced drill-down views with deeper network-related context

Dashboards – Massive Kubernetes Expansion

We added 15 new default Kubernetes dashboards, including:

  • Ingresses
  • Services
  • Persistent Volumes
  • PVCs
  • HPAs
  • StatefulSets
  • DaemonSets
  • CronJobs
  • Jobs
  • ReplicaSets
  • Deployments
  • Containers
  • Namespaces
  • Clusters

All dashboards were also updated with:

  • New metrics
  • Improved layouts
  • Better visualizations

RUM Updates

  • Added SDK support for cookieDomain
  • Added new attributes:
    • Referrer domain
    • Page view
    • Page live (on location change)
  • Fixed application listing issues

Synthetic Monitoring

  • Performance improvements for tag-filtered count queries

Bug fixes for incorrect counts