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August 27, 2025
You can now create and manage the trace scope programmatically. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see the following documents:
May 27, 2025
Learn how to instrument your generative AI applications by using OpenTelemetry and the LangGraph framework to collect information about the actions taken by your AI agent. You can view generative AI events by using the Trace Explorer:
January 24, 2025
The Trace Explorer page in the Google Cloud console has been refreshed. The new page aggregates and displays information about spans using visualizations like heatmaps. You can use menus to apply filters and to group traces by span and service name. You can also explore individual traces and share traces. For more information, see the following documents:
Introducing trace scopes. Trace scopes are persistent, project-level resources that the Trace Explorer page uses to determine which projects to search for trace data. You can create, edit, and delete trace scopes. You can also set one trace scope as the default trace scope, which determines the projects that the Trace Explorer searches when the page is opened.
For more information, see the following documents:
February 20, 2024
For information and recommendations about how to instrument your applications to collect metrics, logs, and traces, see the following documents:
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 Google 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 Google Cloud console and to find documentation.
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).
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.
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.
February 19, 2020
Beta release: Export of Stackdriver Trace data to BigQuery. For more information, see Managing Trace exports.
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.
October 31, 2018
Stackdriver Trace enforces consumption-based pricing as of November 1, 2018 at 00:00 PDT. For more information, see Stackdriver Pricing.
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.
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.
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.
October 20, 2016
Analysis Reports: Compare your application's latency profile across time and versions.