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May 28, 2024
You can now search a trace for keywords. For more information, see Search a trace.
Announcing new Open Telemetry samples that show how to instrument your Python and Node.js applications to collect metrics, logs, and traces:
For general instrumentation information and recommendations, and for links to other samples, see:
February 20, 2024
For information and recommendations about how to instrument your applications to collect metrics, logs, and traces, see the following documents:
January 16, 2024
Announcing a common navigation pane in the Cloud console for Logging, Monitoring, Trace, and Error Reporting. When you are troubleshooting an issue, the new navigation pane simplifies accessing the pages you need to explore different types of telemetry:
- The Explore section list the pages to view and analyze telemetry data.
- The Detect section lists the pages you use to ensure that you are notified when errors occur.
- The Configure section lists configuration and management pages.
You can continue to use the search bar to locate pages in the Cloud console and to find documentation.
October 05, 2023
You can now show logs and events as inline messages when exploring a trace. For more information, see Find and explore traces.
August 14, 2023
Version 2.37.0 of the Ops Agent introduces GA support for an OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) receiver. You can use this receiver to collect custom traces and metrics from applications written by using OpenTelemetry SDKs. For more information, see Use the Ops Agent and OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP).
July 21, 2023
When viewing a span, you can now also view the linked spans. For more information, see View span details.
June 12, 2023
The Trace list page has been replaced with the Trace explorer page, which contains a more responsive and interactive Trace details section. The new design delivers an improved user experience when traversing spans and when viewing span details. For more information, see Find and explore traces.
May 15, 2023
Version 2.31.0 of the Ops Agent introduces preview support for an OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) receiver. You can use this receiver to collect custom traces and metrics from applications written by using OpenTelemetry SDKs. For more information, see Collect OTLP traces.
November 08, 2022
The Trace scatterplot now indicates traces with error codes as red. For more information, see Finding and viewing traces.
October 24, 2022
You can now instrument gRPC applications to use Microservices observability.
Pricing for Microservices observability is the same as Cloud Operations Pricing. There are no separate charges for using Cloud Trace, Cloud Monitoring, or Cloud Logging Microservices observability plugins.
July 09, 2021
Cloud Trace announces that the OpenTelemetry library for Java is now generally available. For information about configuring your Java application to use Open Telemetry, see Java and OpenTelemetry.
April 19, 2021
Cloud Trace announces that the OpenTelemetry library for Python is now generally available. For information about configuring your Python application to use Open Telemetry, see Python and OpenTelemetry.
August 28, 2020
Cloud Trace exemplars can now be viewing in Cloud Monitoring. For more information about Trace exemplars, see Cloud Trace exemplars. For more information about viewing exemplars, see Exploring charted data.
August 17, 2020
The Cloud Trace viewer now supports search by the trace ID. For more information, see Viewing Trace Details.
March 30, 2020
You can now use OpenTelemetry with Go and Node.js to instrument your applications running on GKE and Compute Engine.
February 20, 2020
Integration of Cloud Trace with Virtual Private Cloud Service Controls is now generally available. For more information, see VPC Service Controls documentation.
February 19, 2020
Beta release: Export of Stackdriver Trace data to BigQuery. For more information, see Managing Trace exports.
February 06, 2020
The Stackdriver Trace API v2 is now Generally Available.
December 16, 2019
Integration of Stackdriver Trace with Virtual Private Cloud Service Controls is now beta. For more information, see VPC Service Controls documentation.
November 20, 2019
The Trace list page has a new menu-driven filtering solution that is in Beta release testing. For more information, see Finding and viewing traces.
December 18, 2018
Trace list now limits HTTP method and HTTP status matches to trace root spans. See Filter traces for more details.
You can now filter traces for analysis reports by the full URI, by the URI prefix, or by using trace filter. See Create a new analysis report for details.
October 31, 2018
Stackdriver Trace enforces consumption-based pricing as of November 1, 2018 at 00:00 PDT. For more information, see Stackdriver Pricing.
On November 1, 2018, Stackdriver Trace begins enforcing a daily trace spans ingestion quota. See Stackdriver Trace Quotas & Limits for details.
September 05, 2018
Billing enforcement for Trace has been postponed to November 1, 2018, rather than the previously announced date of September 30, 2018. You can now estimate your bill for your usage of Trace, according to the new pricing and in advance of billing enforcement. See Estimating your bills for details.
April 04, 2018
The Trace Viewer now allows you to view trace spans for related Google Cloud Platform projects in one view. See Viewing traces across projects for details.
March 28, 2018
Stackdriver Trace Data Access audit logs are now Generally Available. See Stackdriver Trace Audit Logging for details.
March 12, 2018
Beginning on June 30, 2018, Stackdriver is switching to consumption-based pricing, including revised quotas. For more information, see Stackdriver Upcoming Pricing.
February 27, 2018
The Trace Viewer now associates logs entries with trace spans when the
LogEntry span_id field is specified. See
Integrating with Cloud Logging
for details.
The Trace Viewer now follows your scroll through the span details page, making it easier to see span details of large traces.
January 12, 2018
The Trace viewer now shows sub-millisecond resolution for Trace spans.
January 09, 2018
The Trace viewer now displays span annotations and message events written with the Stackdriver Trace API v2. See Viewing Trace Details for more information.
October 31, 2017
The Stackdriver Trace API v2 is now in Beta release. For a comparison of the v1 and v2 APIs, see Stackdriver Trace API.
October 02, 2017
The Trace viewer now shows parent-child relationships between trace spans. You can expand or collapse the parent spans. See Viewing Trace Details for more information.
August 01, 2017
The Trace Viewer now allows you to view associated log entries in line with trace spans and links to VM logs for Google Cloud Load Balancer spans. See the Integrating with Cloud Logging.
June 05, 2017
Advanced trace filters: The Trace List page and Trace API now allow filtering traces by custom labels, latencies, child spans, and methods in addition to URIs. See Trace Filters.
February 06, 2017
Zipkin tracer compatibility: Stackdriver Trace is now compatible with Zipkin tracers. For more information, see this blog post.
Scatter plots: We've added a new scatter-plot selection tool to the Stackdriver Trace UI. This lets you more quickly identify, view, and compare interesting traces.
October 20, 2016
Analysis Reports: Compare your application's latency profile across time and versions.