On December 15, 2025, it was announced that your Application Monitoring dashboards will display the trace spans that are associated with your registered App Hub applications. Those dashboards don't display trace data. To view your trace data, use the Trace Explorer page.
]]>Your Application Monitoring dashboards now display the trace spans that are associated with your registered App Hub applications. The display includes annotations that let you identify services and workloads. You can also open the Trace Explorer page from your Application Monitoring dashboards. To learn more, see the following documents:
The Trace Explorer has been updated to include annotations that let you identify App Hub-registered services and workloads. The link provided with a service or workload lets you open the corresponding Application Monitoring dashboard. To learn more, see the following documents:
The default setting for the time-range selector for the Logs Explorer is now five minutes. The previous default was one hour.
]]>You can now add a widget to a dashboard that lets you manage the settings for a variable. To learn more, see the following documents:
The Google Cloud CLI (gcloud) commands to manage
Cloud Monitoring alerting policies are now generally available.
For more information, see gcloud monitoring
policies.
You can now install and manage the Ops Agent on virtual machines in a specified zone by using VM Extension Manager extension policies. You can use extension policies to keep the installed version of the agent current, keep a specified version of the agent installed, and other tasks. For more information, see Install and manage the Ops Agent by using VM Extension Manager policies.
You can now install and manage the Ops Agent on virtual machines in a specified zone by using VM Extension Manager extension policies. You can use extension policies to keep the installed version of the agent current, keep a specified version of the agent installed, and other tasks. For more information, see Install and manage the Ops Agent by using VM Extension Manager policies.
]]>You can now collect, view, and analyze prompts and responses from your agentic applications when they are built with the Agent Development Kit (ADK). This feature is in Public Preview.
Collect and view multimodal prompts and responses describes how to do the following:
You can now view the topology for applications that you register with App Hub. The topology map provides a graphical view of the relationships between the services and workloads in your App Hub application. The topology map also displays alerts and traffic latency, which can help you understand how your application is performing and diagnose issues. This feature is in Public Preview.
To learn more, see the following:
]]>You can now use the Google Cloud CLI and the Cloud Monitoring API to list incidents and get incident details. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see the following pages:
]]>The query builder in the Log Analytics page is generally available (GA). For more information, see Build, edit, and run a query.
]]>Application Monitoring is now generally available (GA). Application Monitoring lets you monitor the resources and infrastructure from the perspective of an App Hub application. The out-of-the-box dashboards that Application Monitoring creates can help you understand how your application's resources are performing, and they can help you diagnose issues.
Cloud Logging has removed the quota for write requests per minute, which has been replaced by volume-based regional quotas. We've also removed the references to August dates for the removal of the old quota from the public documentation. For more information, see Logging API quotas and limits.
]]>When viewing a chart, you can now open a flyout that displays the chart and related log entries. To explore your metric and log data in more detail, you can then use the toolbars and menus in the flyout. To learn more, see the following:
]]>You can now create and manage the trace scope programmatically. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see the following documents:
]]>Your Application Monitoring dashboards will display latency, error rates, and traffic level for workloads deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine, when you instrument your application with OpenTelemetry. To learn more, see Instrument an application for Application Monitoring.
]]>The following infrastructure is now integrated with Application Monitoring, which is in public preview.
To learn more, see Application Monitoring overview and Supported infrastructure.
]]>You can now use the time_series_billed_for_queries_count
metric to estimate charges based on the number of time series that have been
queried. For more information, see View the number of time series billed
for queries.
Billing by time series queried isn't enforced until October 2, 2025. For more information, see Cloud Monitoring pricing summary.
]]>You can now build queries without manually writing SQL in the Log Analytics page by using the query builder. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see Build and run a SQL query.
You can now monitor and understand the costs and utilization of resources in your Google Cloud project or App Hub application by using the Cost Explorer. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see Optimize costs with the Cost Explorer.
]]>Application-specific resource attributes are attached to your trace data when your App Hub applications use supported Google Cloud resources, or when you instrument an application with OpenTelemetry and use the Google Cloud Telemetry endpoint. To learn more, see the following:
Application-specific resource attributes are attached to your trace data when your App Hub applications use supported Google Cloud resources, or when you instrument an application with OpenTelemetry and use the Google Cloud Telemetry endpoint. You can use the Trace Explorer to filter by your application, your service, or your workload. To learn more, see the following:
]]>The Analysis reports page has been removed. To analyze your trace data, use the Trace explorer page. You can use filters and the time-range selector to view and analyze historical data.
]]>Cloud Logging begins enforcement of the new volume-based regional quotas. For more information, see Logging API quotas and limits.
]]>You can now cancel a running query in the Logs Explorer by clicking the Stop query button.
]]>You can now add treemap widgets to your custom dashboards. Treemaps display the most recent value of aggregated data as a series of nested rectangles, the color saturation of a rectangle is proportional to the represented value. For more information, see the following:
]]>You can now configure the observability scope or set the default log scope by using the Google Cloud CLI. You must use version 254.0 or higher. For more information, see Configure observability scopes and Set the default log scope.
]]>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:
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