The Trace Explorer page in the Google Cloud console has been refreshed

## Change The **Trace Explorer** page in the Google Cloud console has been refreshed. The new page aggregates and displays information about spans using visualizations like heatmaps. You can use menus to apply filters and to group traces by span and service name. You can also explore individual traces and share traces. For more information, see the following documents: * [Find and explore traces](https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/finding-traces) * [View traces across projects](https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/cross-project-traces) * [Share trace or span](https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/share-trace-or-span) ## Feature Introducing trace scopes. Trace scopes are persistent, project-level resources that the **Trace Explorer** page uses to determine which projects to search for trace data. You can create, edit, and delete trace scopes. You can also set one trace scope as the default trace scope, which determines the projects that the **Trace Explorer** searches when the page is opened. For more information, see the following documents: * [Observability scopes overview](https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/scopes/configure) * [Create and manage trace scopes](https://cloud.google.com//trace/docs/trace-scope/create-and-manage). * [View traces across projects](https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/cross-project-traces)