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0.18.0
Grafana Cloud
Release notes for Application Observability plugin 0.18.0
Released on 2023-11-06.
Changes
- Add pagination to the traces table
- Make service namespace optional when building the initial query in traces view
- Fixed height of the traces table
- Improve validity checks in the traces search editor
- Removed default thresholds for RED metrics panels
- Enforce proper operation in traces query
- Fix showing 0 req/s when having data in service inventory
- Ensure operation name is passed to traces screen
- Fix service/operation overview panels on both mobile and desktop devices
- Fix service/operation details pages title on mobile devices
- Fix service overview tracking event being issued twice if user waits 10s and then navigates away
- Fix logs editor unable to add additional filters
- Fix TraceQL scope validation
- When configuring environment attribute, do not try to push Tempo overrides if stack is not opted in or target info metric name is set to target_info
- Don’t validate that environment variable is in Tempo overrides if stack is not opted in or target info metric name is set to target_info
- If opting in after environment filter attribute has been customized, use that as extra dimension instead of deployment.environment
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