Here’s what’s new:
Global Improvements
- Improved Onboarding Experience: We made it easier for you to access the OpenTelemetry Demo application quickly. While you can still send telemetry directly to Dash0 from the get-go, most users prefer to first explore the tool with demo data.
New Onboarding Screen
- Automatic Notification Setup: To simplify the experience of creating check rules, we’ve created a default notification channel to your email. Now, sending alerts is more intuitive, especially for first-time users.
Default Notification Channel
- More elegant, streamlined resource summaries: We’ve cleaned up resource information to provide clearer explanations using more text instead of icons, making data interpretation more user-friendly.
- Main navigation redesign: In the first iteration of our navigation redesign, we made the interface more compact, freeing up screen space. We also moved organization settings following to user settings, as many users reported difficulties finding them in the organization dropdown. We also added a link to the onboarding screens, so you can quickly visit the in-product documentation of sending your telemetry to Dash0.
- Easier-to-find Keyboard Navigation: To encourage greater keyboard use, we’ve added a permanent Command-K button for quick command access. Pressing the SHIFT key now displays all available keyboard shortcuts on the current screen, making it easier to navigate through the app.
- New Filter Dialogue: Our enhanced filter dialogue now includes:
- Auto-completion mode: Provides key/value guidance for high cardinality fields.
- Value search: Enables searching within attribute keys and values.
- Semantic sorting: Search results prioritize attributes like service and name, making the filtering experience more natural.
Tracing
- Keyboard Shortcuts for tracing: You can now open a trace by pressing the “T” key, which is significantly faster in many situations.
- Easier to navigate to traces: We added a clear “View Full Trace” button, making it easier to navigate traces.
- Animated hint for Trace View capabilities: To help you understand the trace view’s interaction patterns, we’ve added a new animation that highlights possible controls, improving usability.
Dashboards
We’ve squashed a variety of visual bugs to enhance the dashboard experience, including:
- Fixes for truncated headers and leftover configuration sections.
- Improved scrolling functionality for better data navigation.
- The Table Widget now supports custom value formatting.
Metrics
- Querying OpenTelemetry Histograms: Native OpenTelemetry histograms can now be queried directly within Dash0, offering you more flexibility with your metrics data.
Alerting
- Custom HTTP Headers: You can now configure custom HTTP headers for alerts, giving you more control over your alerting setup.
Kubernetes Operator
- Reconciliation of operator-defined Kubernetes resources: The OpenTelemetry collector’s Kubernetes resources are now protected from user modifications through a watch-based reconciliation mechanism.
- Seamless operator upgrades: We’ve enhanced the user experience when upgrading the operator by automating the cleanup of outdated Kubernetes resources created by previous versions.
- Improved self-monitoring: We’ve incorporated additional resource attributes like k8s.deployment.uid and k8s.daemonset.uid in the resources of the telemetry sent to Dash0 by the operator about itself.
We hope these updates improve your experience with Dash0, and we can’t wait to hear your feedback as you explore the new features. We’re committed to iterating and building a tool that meets your needs, and your input continues to shape the product’s future.
The Beta has concluded. Thank you for having been part of our Beta! Anyone can now sign up for a free 14 day trial of Dash0.
