diff --git a/k8s/grafana/dashboards/obs-distributed-traces.json b/k8s/grafana/dashboards/obs-distributed-traces.json
index 0b0e739..4c0b5e6 100644
--- a/k8s/grafana/dashboards/obs-distributed-traces.json
+++ b/k8s/grafana/dashboards/obs-distributed-traces.json
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
     {
       "type": "traces",
       "title": "Trace $traceId",
-      "description": "Grafana's own trace view: the full waterfall, every span nested in order, across LibreChat, Keycloak, the Kong gateways and the backend — no split between HTTP hops and plugins, they are one tree.\n\nClick a span to expand its attributes: method, route, status, durations, and whatever the instrumentation attached. From a span, 'Logs for this span' jumps to Loki.",
+      "description": "Grafana's own trace view: every span nested in order across LibreChat, Keycloak, the Kong gateways and the backend. Click a span to expand its attributes; from a span, 'Logs for this span' jumps to Loki.\n\nA default span filter hides the framework plumbing — Express middleware, mongoose/mongodb calls, kong.dns, raw SQL — which is most of a 212-span trace and none of the flow. Clear the filter in the panel, or toggle 'Show all spans', to get them back.\n\nThis is a DISPLAY filter: those spans are still produced and still stored in Tempo.",
       "datasource": {
         "type": "tempo",
         "uid": "tempo"
@@ -192,7 +192,26 @@
           "query": "$traceId",
           "limit": 300
         }
-      ]
+      ],
+      "options": {
+        "spanFilters": {
+          "spanName": "middleware - .*|mongoose\\..*|mongodb\\..*|kong\\.dns|SELECT|INSERT|UPDATE|DELETE|router - .*",
+          "spanNameOperator": "!~",
+          "serviceName": "",
+          "serviceNameOperator": "=",
+          "from": "",
+          "to": "",
+          "tags": [
+            {
+              "id": "1",
+              "operator": "="
+            }
+          ],
+          "matchesOnly": true,
+          "criticalPathOnly": false,
+          "query": ""
+        }
+      }
     },
     {
       "type": "row",