We are excited to introduce the enhanced Time Picker functionality, designed to empower developers and SREs with efficient observability workflows. With new capabilities that make investigating and working across different product areas easier than ever, Time Picker is there to help you get to the insights faster across Logs, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Real User Monitoring (RUM), Infrastructure Monitoring (IM), and Synthetics.
Seamless Transition between Product Areas
Imagine starting your work in the Log Observer interface, pinpointing anomalies with precision. Now, when it's time to dive into APM, you can seamlessly carry your selected time range with you. Time Picker recent selection is persistent across all product areas to ensure that your carefully chosen timeframe is captured as you switch between Observability suite of products, eliminating the need for redundant configurations.
Intuitive UI and Enhanced Functionality
Time Picker's improved user interface steps up the game. Not only does it resolve past issues/bugs, but it also introduces advanced features like time range pasting and type-ahead behavior. Consider this: you just joined your coworker in investigating an alert. They send you a time range when an outage happens. With enhanced Time Picker time range pasting feature, you can instantly and quickly apply your desired time frame without manually typing the value, minimizing clicks and accelerating your workflow.
Enhanced Timestamp Format for Convenience and Efficiency
Time Picker also introduces a wide range of formats users can paste or type into the component, at the same time standardizing the output format across the product areas. In addition, Time Picker takes into consideration your preferred time zone or browser time zone, and if you paste time with offset or time zone designation, time picker automatically converts to the time zone you set. Now it is easier than ever to work with colleagues across different time zones. This not only elevates your experience but significantly reduces the chances of encountering bugs.
Let’s look at our previous scenario, you are working on an alert, and your colleague that works in Eastern Time zone shared the time range when outage happened, their time range includes EST suffix, as you work in PST, and your observability suite is set to PST, when you paste the time range, it will convert the time range to your time zone and correctly display data. No need to manually adjust it!
Like Gwen Stefani once said: What are you waiting for? Try out the enhanced Time Picker today!
