New - Number of spans per Trace has been increased by 10 times to 10000 spans per trace to better support monitoring for long running and complex transactions. Please note that new spans can increase credits consumption.

Update - Traces logs and data includes a new duration field that holds the difference between endTimestamp and startTimestamp in milliseconds.

New - Announcing general availability of dashboard support for Trace Spans data index. You can now pin results of your queries on spans data directly to the Dashboard. You can add the query through the Log Search screen when running queries in _trace_spans index as long as your read volume does not exceed 200x of your tracing ingest (more info). Support for doing this directly from the Spans analytics window is coming soon.

New - Traces now include Span Events that describe and contextualize the work being done in a Span by tracing and displaying that data in Trace Views. These events are optional time-stamped strings made up of a timestamp, name, and (optional) key-value pair attributes. Select a marker in the timeline or a span to review the Span Event data.