Mar 12, 2025

Contributors

No more "Lost in Time"

We love interacting charts. We think you should be able to get answers by interacting with data visualizations in intuitive ways. This is why since early on, Dash0 allowed you to focus on a smaller timeframe by creating a selection on a chart and using the Set Time Range button.

It was a good idea, but we did not execute it right: we saw users struggle with "going back” to larger timeframes, and feeling stuck. Internally, we “affectionately” called this user-experience issue "lost in time."

We went back to the drawing board, and think we found a nice solution: Now, the lists of spans and logs in the Logging and Tracing views filter themselves as soon as a selection is made. You can drill down in a subset of the raw telemetry, without losing the global context. No additional clicks, no "lost in time". Yet, you still have the option to zoom if you want to!