September 9, 2026

Release 2.8.2 shipped on September 9, 2026.

Features#

Pricing#

  • Introduced the Free Forever plan with monthly allowances of 100 GB data ingestion, 1,000 RUM sessions, 20,000 synthetic checks, 10 browser tests, and 2 million OpsAI tokens.
  • A credit card is required to activate the Free Forever plan.
  • Usage within the monthly free allowances is excluded from billing; only usage above the limits is charged.

Log Anomaly#

  • Updated the log anomaly UI with new data and monitoring views across services.
  • Added severity and anomaly type breakdowns for easier analysis.
  • View related logs and detailed anomaly analysis to identify the potential cause.
Log Anomaly: View related logs and detailed anomaly analysis to identify the potential cause.

Alert#

  • Default stability alerts
    • Added new default alerts related to monitor product core performance metrics.
    • Includes alerts for slow database queries, Kubernetes job failures, slow page loading, API failures, and slow API responses.
  • Enabled email notifications for all default alerts. Users will receive an email when a default alert is triggered.
  • Notification Aggregation
    • Configure whether grouped alerts are sent as a single notification or multiple notifications based on the selected grouping attributes.
Alert: Notification Aggregation
  • Alert trigger history
    • View the status and resource name for each alert trigger when alerts are grouped by attributes.
    • Quickly identify which resources were impacted when an alert affects multiple resources
Alert: Alert trigger history
  • Analyze alert with OpsAI
    • Analyze alert configurations with OpsAI to identify potential configuration issues.
    • Get recommendations for thresholds and other configuration changes to improve alert accuracy and reduce false alerts.
Alert: Analyze alert with OpsAI

UI updates#

  • Left menu redesign
    • Updated the left menu with a new design and restructured project listing with option to search and clearer current project selection.
    • Separated Installation and Settings from project navigation for easier access.
UI updates: Left menu redesign

Node.js Auto instrumentation#

  • Updated instrumentation to extend support to auto capture exception code for all frameworks (ex: Fastify, Koa, Hapi etc).
  • Users can see exceptions in the error tab in APM trace.

OpsAI Error detection#

  • Added support for 4 new types of issue detection for APM: Large HTTP payload, Slow DB query, Error grouping (stack trace) and uncompressed asset.
  • This new type of issue detection is supported as default for all language APM.

OpsAI#

  • Add a specific log as context when asking OpsAI a question.
  • OpsAI uses the selected log as additional context to provide relevant answers.
OpsAI: OpsAI uses the selected log as additional context to provide relevant answers.

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