diff --git a/k8s/grafana/dashboards/obs-distributed-traces.json b/k8s/grafana/dashboards/obs-distributed-traces.json
index fda4fd2..0b0e739 100644
--- a/k8s/grafana/dashboards/obs-distributed-traces.json
+++ b/k8s/grafana/dashboards/obs-distributed-traces.json
@@ -23,31 +23,36 @@
         "name": "traceFilter",
         "label": "Show",
         "type": "custom",
-        "query": "Transactions — 3+ services : {kind=server} | count() > 2,2+ services : {kind=server} | count() > 1,Everything (noisy) : {}",
+        "query": "LibreChat transactions : {trace:rootService=\"librechat\"} && {resource.service.name!=\"librechat\"},Reaching a Kong gateway : {trace:rootService=\"librechat\"} && {name=~\"kong\\\\..*\"},All LibreChat traces (incl. /metrics scrapes) : {trace:rootService=\"librechat\"},Everything (very noisy) : {}",
         "options": [
           {
-            "text": "Transactions — 3+ services",
-            "value": "{kind=server} | count() > 2",
+            "text": "LibreChat transactions",
+            "value": "{trace:rootService=\"librechat\"} && {resource.service.name!=\"librechat\"}",
             "selected": true
           },
           {
-            "text": "2+ services",
-            "value": "{kind=server} | count() > 1",
+            "text": "Reaching a Kong gateway",
+            "value": "{trace:rootService=\"librechat\"} && {name=~\"kong\\\\..*\"}",
             "selected": false
           },
           {
-            "text": "Everything (noisy)",
+            "text": "All LibreChat traces (incl. /metrics scrapes)",
+            "value": "{trace:rootService=\"librechat\"}",
+            "selected": false
+          },
+          {
+            "text": "Everything (very noisy)",
             "value": "{}",
             "selected": false
           }
         ],
         "current": {
-          "text": "Transactions — 3+ services",
-          "value": "{kind=server} | count() > 2"
+          "text": "LibreChat transactions",
+          "value": "{trace:rootService=\"librechat\"} && {resource.service.name!=\"librechat\"}"
         },
         "includeAll": false,
         "multi": false,
-        "description": "Which traces are worth listing."
+        "description": "Traces started BY LibreChat and leaving it. Rooting on LibreChat is what makes this a user-facing transaction rather than infrastructure chatter; requiring a second service is what drops Prometheus scraping LibreChat's own /metrics, which otherwise fills the list."
       },
       {
         "name": "traceId",
@@ -89,7 +94,7 @@
     {
       "type": "table",
       "title": "Transactions",
-      "description": "Traces where at least three services received an HTTP request — a real end-to-end flow rather than a token call or a health probe. Filtering by service name does not achieve this: Keycloak and the gateways are services too.\n\nClick a Trace ID to load it below.",
+      "description": "Traces LibreChat started that reached another service — the user-facing transactions.\n\nCounting spans was the previous approach and it let LibreChat's own /metrics scrapes through: with 50 of them in six hours they crowded out the two real conversations. Rooting on the service that starts a transaction is both simpler and stricter.\n\nThe trade: anything not entering through LibreChat is invisible here — a direct call to a gateway, or a curl against an API. Use 'Everything' for those.\n\nClick a Trace ID to load it below.",
       "datasource": {
         "type": "tempo",
         "uid": "tempo"