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Release notes for Application Observability plugin 1.50
1.50.0
Released on 2025-03-06.
- Update to React Router v6
- Fix permission required for the Declare Incident and Open in Explore buttons
- Improve the view traces link in the service map for uninstrumented services
- Rename the Open in Explore button in the profile view to Open in Drilldown
- Block Application Observability when no host-hours are available
1.50.1
Released on 2025-03-07.
- Avoid blocking the application on landing and configuration pages
1.50.2
Released on 2025-03-10.
- Do not block the application when no host-hours are available but demo data sources are enabled
- Update metrics source option labels to account for Alloy 1.5, which changed span metric names
1.50.3
Released on 2025-03-13.
- Fix the application being blocked despite host info metric being sent as required
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