Mute schedules for alert rules
A nightly batch job or a fixed maintenance slot used to mean muting and unmuting a rule by hand. An alert rule can now mute itself on a weekly schedule. Open the rule’s actions menu in Alert Rules and select Add Mute Schedule….
- Pick the Weekdays, a Start Time and End Time, and a Timezone. A window can cross midnight, such as 22:00 to 02:00.
- Only notifications stop. The rule keeps evaluating, and its state and history keep updating during the window.
- The schedule is separate from a manual mute. Unmute clears a manual mute and leaves the schedule in place.
- The Rules table and Alert Monitor show when a rule is muted by its schedule.
Links on dashboards, panels, and data points
Moving from a dashboard to a runbook, a related dashboard, or another tool used to mean copying names and time ranges by hand. Dashboards now take links that you define, and the links are saved with the dashboard.
- Custom Links in Dashboard Settings add links to the dashboard header. A link is either a URL or Dashboards with tags, which opens a menu of the dashboards that share a tag.
- Panel Links in the panel editor attach links to one panel.
- Data Links open from a clicked data point, with its series fields and value filled into the URL.
- Keep Time Range and Include Variables add the dashboard’s time range and variable values to the URL, so the destination opens on the same context.
Frame rate and memory for each mobile view
In a mobile app, a screen that stutters or uses too much memory was hard to find from a session. Each view in a mobile Applications (RUM) session now shows how smoothly it rendered and how much memory it used, on Android, iOS, React Native, and Flutter.
- Open a view and look under Mobile Vitals in its Attributes tab.
- Refresh Rate (avg) and Refresh Rate (min) are scaled to 0–60 fps, so 60 Hz and 120 Hz devices compare directly.
- Slow Frames and Frozen Frames count dropped frames. A frozen frame takes longer than 700 ms.
- Memory (avg), Memory (max), and CPU Usage show the resource use of the view.
- React Native also shows JS Refresh Rate, so a busy JS thread shows up even when native frames look healthy.
- Needs RUM SDK 1.7.0 or later. Collection is on by default, and follows the
resourceMonitoringEnabledsetting. See the RUM changelog.
Improvements
- Metrics: The query in the Create Alert dialog of Metrics Explorer was read-only. The PromQL Query field is now editable, with the same autocomplete as the explorer.
- MCP:
get_databaseslisted only the databases that traced services call. It now also finds databases from infrastructure metrics.
Fixes
- AI Assistant: Users with the Viewer role could not ask the AI Assistant questions, and saw a generic error instead of a permission message.
- Dashboards: Changing a variable value did not show the Save button, so you could not save the new value.
- Discover
- Applications (RUM): On Android, when the SDK started after the first screen showed, as in React Native and Flutter apps, a return from the background was reported as a very long cold start. Fixed in Android SDK 1.6.12.
- ECS: The Services and Tasks lists in Discover ECS did not scroll past the rows that fit on the screen.
- Metrics: Creating an alert from Metrics Explorer failed for counter and histogram queries that used
$__rate_interval. - MCP
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search_terminget_alert_configdid not match the team, tier, or labels shown on each rule. - The label filter in
get_alert_groupscould miss a matching alert group, depending on the case of the label key. get_apm_service_deviationswithmax_servicescould fill the result with improvements and leave out a regression.
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