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OTEL Traces Chat Tab, Richer Migrations, and New gcQL Pipes

January 1, 2026

This week we added a Chat tab to OTEL traces, expanded migration inner pages with better sorting, counters, and filtering, and introduced OOMKilled events on the Events page. We also shipped multiple gcQL upgrades including new pipes, in() support, and automatic aliasing, plus stability fixes across dashboards, monitors, filters, and charts.

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New Features

  • Traces | Enabled support for displaying chat tab in OTEL traces
  • Dashboards | Added better schema error messages for importing dashboards
  • Integrations | Added RabbitMQ integration to the data sources page

Improvements

  • gcQL | Enabled limiting of gcQL results by (a, b)
  • gcQL |Added automatic column aliasing for GCQL stats functions
  • gcQL | Implemented new gcQL pipes for extracting data and splitting queries
  • gcQL |Added support for the in() syntax in gcQL queries
  • gcQL | Enabled raw_any() function for gcQL stats on backend

Bug Fixes

  • gcQL | Fixed a bug where the unpack_json pipe would fail with multiple fields pipes
  • Dashboards | Fixed a bug that caused the dashboard to become unusable when resizing
  • Dashboards | Fixed stat widget number rounding format in dashboards
  • Fixed a bug that prevented filtering of an attribute on native screens
  • Monitors | Aligned the monitors drawer data to the monitor configuration
  • Charts | Fixed a bug where Y-axis tick values were calculated before unit conversion

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Other recent updates

MongoDB Atlas Integration, Dashboard Drilldowns, Raw Span Tab

December 25, 2025

This week we introduces a new MongoDB Atlas integration, support for public vs. private endpoints, and major dashboard upgrades including one-click drilldowns into Logs/Traces/Events and per-column numeric formatting. We also shipped a new Raw tab in the Span drawer, added 15-second Synthetics intervals, and delivered multiple stability fixes across dashboards, monitors, notifications, and migrations.

Self-Health Monitors, Self-Serve Integrations, Customizable Dashboards

December 20, 2025

Self-Health Monitors make it easier to validate that groundcover is collecting, ingesting, and alerting as expected. We also added new self-serve integration wizards and expanded dashboard customization, plus a round of fixes across Kubernetes, Monitors, and Dashboards.

Faster Dashboards, Traces, and Map

December 13, 2025

Explore and dashboards are now faster and more scalable with sort/limit support, lazy loading, and data streaming. Traces and maps got small but useful UX upgrades, integrations are easier to install, and we fixed several stability and polish issues across the product.

Synthetics, Terraform, and Smarter Monitors

December 6, 2025

Synthetics now have a new creation wizard, while monitors gained more control with custom repeat intervals. We also added Terraform support for metrics aggregation and improved performance and usability across dashboards, explore, and monitors.

Data Sources Migration, Dashboards Touchup, and Synthetics

November 29, 2025

Dashboards are easier to share and work better across screen sizes with new widgets, share options, and layout improvements. Migrations now display your legacy vendor’s integrations and a couple of other UX improvements across the platform.

Associated Vars, Monitor Wizard, gcQL code mode, and Scrape Metrics Integration

November 22, 2025

Dashboards gained associated variables, aliases, and clearer defaults, while monitors now align more closely with Explore. We also improved the monitor wizard flow and fixed several long-standing issues across charts and formulas.

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